The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Error Handling Errors are part of software development.

Media 237

Media Traffic Processing Design 237

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. Deriving meaningful value from trace data alone can be challenging, as Cindy Sridharan articulated in this blog post. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. DevOps teams can analyze user behavior analytics and, with Dynatrace Session Replay, video-like replay of individual user sessions. DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing.

Monitoring 206

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 206

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In fact, most of the material from this blog series has been adapted from our internal Experimentation 101 and 201 classes, which are open to anyone at Netflix. We use qualitative and quantitative consumer research, analytics, experimentation, predictive modeling, and other tools to develop a deep understanding of our members.

Education 238

Education Innovation Testing Programming 238

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The phrase “every resource” includes every page, image, video, etc. Videos and pages are a little easier because they can be linked, but the compression of pictures has lowered their quality while also making it more difficult for them to maintain the individualized URL. and each of these assets should have a common URL.

Website 73

Website Traffic Ecommerce Google 73

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. It is a huge industry, with its own publications, thought leaders, podcasts, video series, and more. A blog post with relevant images, audio clips, and an embedded video is likely to be more engaging than a plain text blog post.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network equipment like cable or router. Wi-Fi usage.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). You can prioritize them by how many URLs they affect or how much of your real user traffic they affect. But they can significantly affect how – or even if!

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport.

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Apart from video, where you generally know what you’re getting yourself into, images are by far the biggest culprit to data usage on the web. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Google analytics has ‘low’ priority. The video is clipped off-screen. Performance Tip #13: Don’t Preload Video.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We love the reactive scalability, which lets us scale only the tables we need during our predicted traffic spikes and turn them down during quieter times, paying only for the exact resources we needed. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142