The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. CORE The CORE team uses Python in our alerting and statistical analytical work.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Switch your analytics.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). More after jump!

Education 84

Education Website Google Design 84

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. Read “ Efficiently load JavaScript with defer and async ” for more information.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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