The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2020, Netflix started streaming AV1 to the Android mobile app. The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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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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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. Obviously this means that there is a ton of work to be done going into 2020 for web performance. Source: Web Almanac – HTTP Archive.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This shift is critical to support the ever-accelerating development speeds that both customers and stakeholders demand. With the help of open-source solutions and agile APIs, teams can now deliver and maintain code more efficiently than ever. million annually on performing manual, routine tasks just to “keep the lights on.”

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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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. It doesn’t capture the index data in the metadata backup file.

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Scalegrid

MAY 22, 2020

However, as the number of slaves increases, they will have a toll on the master resources because the binary logs will need to be served to different slaves working at different speeds. Ripple is an open source binlog server developed by Pavel Ivanov. 2020-03-21T10:08:55.874044Z 2 [Note] Semi-sync replication switched OFF.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

Consider data from our recent 2020 Global CIO Report , which found that 86. The sheer volume of data sources and potential security concerns makes this challenging for any IT team — add in multiple cloud environments and open-source resources, and effective management becomes almost impossible.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At Dynatrace’s 2020 Perform Conference, we shared approaches for how our customers are using Dynatrace to help them “ Release Better Software Faster ”. One highlight from the conference was the introduction of the open-source project called Keptn which Dynatrace is leading. Performance test is run. Dynatrace news.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing single of the calendar year. Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . The early years of the company were focused on building on top of Mik’s PhD thesis , supporting the open source Eclipse Mylyn project and our commercial Tasktop Dev offering.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

In September of 2020, big news was released – Catchpoint would be acquiring WebPageTest. Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. WebPageTest is also unique in that it is an open-source engine that allows countless webperf engineers to run their own instances.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is why a lot of our guidance on performance talks about image optimization. Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, IT analyst Gartner found that 30% of enterprises implementing distributed system architectures will have adopted observability techniques by 2024, up from less than 10% in 2020. Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. There is a solution though!

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

These front end frameworks provide various templates to interact with browser components and are compatible with various libraries which boost the performance while reducing the amount of code required. Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020). What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. This optimization is performed by default whenever the optimizer determines that using it would allow for faster query execution. This may affect the performance of the other queries in your application.

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Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Early in 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic has taken a serious toll. A teacher can use this process to analyze a student’s performance and provide appropriate solutions. It’s suitable with java virtual machine and JavaScript that offers a range of support java communication, speed, code and quality. Offline Learning.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Perl Advent (2020). PWAdvent (2020). 24 Pull Requests.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. 2020-05-20T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-05-20T13:37:03+00:00. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Anton Nemtsev. It’s costly, and complex.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

However, choice mainly depends on numerous factors like project timeline, framework performance, learning curve, and team size. Performance. is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). Vue vs React: Performance. Scalability.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. Coding From Scratch. Alex Husar. 2021-11-02T12:00:00+00:00.

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Know the difference between Flutter vs React Native in terms of architecture, performance, community support, learning curve, use cases and many other aspects. Performance comparison. React Native is a popular open-source Facebook-led native UI development framework that runs on JavaScript. Table of Contents. An overview.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Performance. Source: reactjs.org. React is an open-source JavaScript library for web development. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. Source: angular.io. improved user experience and very fast performance. Conclusion.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Image Source. Benefits of using AI-powered Chatbots. Dark Mode.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started!

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. Meta-platforms enter this calculus with a deficit to maximum capability and performance but (hopefully) gains to reach. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020. 5] Java found some client-side niches, particularly in enterprise.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The website is a collection of songs collected over decades and now searchable, with filters by genre, speed, country, and time period. Of course, we don’t know for sure how well our solutions worked, and we don’t know if they’d perform well next time around. Image credit: Radiooooo ). A Trip Back To The Early-Days Of Computing.

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