The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2020, Netflix started streaming AV1 to the Android mobile app. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As the new standard of monitoring, observability enables I&O, DevOps, and SRE teams alike to gain critical insights into the performance of today’s complex cloud-native environments. An AI-powered solution can rapidly establish and adjust performance baselines and automatically detect anomalies across distributed systems.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion in 2020 to $4.1 A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. With the help of log monitoring software, teams can collect information and trigger alerts if something happens that affects system performance and health.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

The calculated service metrics limit message is now improved to be more specific. On CPU usage chart for Windows host, System and User metrics are no longer interchanged. Querying data points for a metric no longer fails when the metric key starts with a number. Last modified on 2020-08-26 at 18:46 UTC.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , Technology Services Manager Thomas Janik and AWS Monitoring SME Matt Gault, both from American Family, explain how they boosted their cloud operations to increase resilience. Step 1: Automate AWS metrics ingestion with Dynatrace. 01 for every 1,000 metrics. It only costs about $.01

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Looking at our overall data set, we saw a small increase in some key metrics and performance indicators, but this wasn’t substantial. . Breaking d own performance across U.S. In the first two weeks in April , this state has had more web traffic than it had experience in 2020 to date. seconds to 2.78

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. We need to do our best to stay up to date – not just with which metrics to track, but also with what they measure and why they're important. Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Simple network calls. Performance-wise, long call chains over the network can potentially decrease reliability. Dynatrace news. Potential for decreased reliability. Cultural shift.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Simple network calls. Performance-wise, long call chains over the network can potentially decrease reliability. Dynatrace news. Potential for decreased reliability. Cultural shift.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both. Lighthouse performance scores for desktop tests should be much higher.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

This year at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , we’re ramping up our Dynatrace University offerings because we know this is one of your favorite parts of attending Perform. You told us you wanted more hands-on training (HOT) Days, so you could attend more sessions, learn more about Dynatrace, and network with your fellow attendees.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As an application developer, you want to instrument your code to understand how your services communicate with each other and where bottlenecks cause performance degradations. This enables you to take actions (automatically or manually) when anomalies and performance problems occur that have an impact on end-user experience.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

According to the 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey , 92 percent of organizations are using containers in production, and 83 percent of these use Kubernetes as their preferred container management solution. Who manages the networking aspects? Dynatrace news. This simplifies orchestration in cloud-native environments.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2019

He said that any mistake with Ingress configuration, Load Balancers, or any other network component that sits between the consumer and the actual service running in k8s can lead to SLA violations while Kubernetes internal health checks still report that everything is green. high failure rate or unavailability.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

After frantically googling ‘how to create a podcast’, having many internal strategy sessions, and brainstorming countless podcast names, we decided on ‘ Mik + One ’, and on 27 January 2020, the first episode was released. Listen now. Mik + Gail Murphy, Nicole Bryan & Naomi Lurie. Listen now. Mik + Jon Smart. Listen now. Listen now.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

Value Stream Networks. Understanding how to create and connect a Value Stream Network, we must first understand the ground truth of enterprise IT tool networks. Managing product better to deliver faster time-to-value to the customer (instead of focusing on internal project metrics).

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2020, in the first nine months, we were already hitting 1590 million units and this trend has been growing every year. While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. This requires us to perform frequent mobile application testing cycles or regression tests maybe.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Generally, code auditing involves analyzing code to find bugs or other irregularities, like possible performance issues. To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. Performance Monitor.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Cloudburst monitors request and service rates (storing metrics in Anna).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

2020-03-09T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-03-09T13:41:45+00:00. Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. Barry Pollard. Recommended Reading.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort of discipline in the form of strange workarounds of its limitations. If we look at the 90 th percentile of that same dataset — because it’s really the long tail of performance we need to optimize for — we see an increase of 239%.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Before 2020 no one would have guessed that work from home will become such an internationally accepted phenomenon. Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. Mostly we are using a virtual desktop to stay connected to the organization’s network.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

Since its inception in January 2020, the Mik + One podcast has hosted some of the industry’s most recognized thought leaders, reaching thousands of listeners across the globe. Listen now. Episode 20: Justin Watts, Director of Agile Change, Lloyds Banking Group. Listen now. Episode 28: Pieter Jordaan, Group Chief Technology Officer, TUI.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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