The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

long_query_time: Defines the threshold for query execution time, and queries taking longer than this threshold are considered slow and logged for further analysis innodb_buffer_pool_size: Sets the size of the InnoDB buffer pool. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. There are also large differences in storage capacity and throughput between these extremes.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. Query plan analysis can also provide valuable insights.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

of PostgreSQL users are currently in the process of migrating to the RDBMS, according to the 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report , an astounding percentage considering this is the 4th most popular database in the world. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Advances in browser content processing. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs. ” A good question! Construction of DOM.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. On prem data processing. Optimize on prem cold storage cost. Video Transcoding.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145