The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

The main motivation is that while the devices themselves have a significant role in overall performance, our network and cloud infrastructure has a non-negligible impact on the responsiveness of devices. Security Events Platform See open source project such as StreamAlert and Siddhi to get some general ideas.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

And once all that is done: remember Jamstack serves our apps from the edges of the Content Delivery Network. So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Jamstack general service architecture ( Large preview ). Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. The predictions are then fed into a MIP which is solved on the fly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. The company has used AWS to build an IT innovation zone, based upon open source products, which is being used to launch new innovations for customers like E-Mobility and E-thermostat products with a very fast time-to-market.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Discover which aligns better with your project’s needs without getting bogged down in technical jargon.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Lighthouse is an open source project run by a dedicated team from Google Chrome. If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. Speed has become a crucial factor for SEO rankings, especially now that nearly 50% of web traffic comes from mobile devices.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer built into an application that controls service-to-service communication in a microservices architecture.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supporting developers through those checklists for edge cases, and then validating that each team’s choices resulted in an architecture with all the desired security properties, was similarly not scalable for our security engineers. Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul.

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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.

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Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Because of its NoSQL origin and document architecture design, MongoDB is much more flexible and scalable than SQL databases such as MySQL. If you are using the open-source Percona Distribution for MongoDB , you also have extra features such as LDAP authentication support, which is present in the Enterprise and Atlas MongoDB versions.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Their expertise lies in ensuring everything runs smoothly, from servers to networks.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. Cost is one of the key reasons why most government organisations, mid to large sized business, and publisher prefer open source CMS options such as WordPress and Drupal.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The open source Cloud Carbon Footprint Tool takes billing data (which is available monthly or hourly) as it’s input, along with estimated carbon intensity factors, and can produce workload carbon estimates, but not in real time. At the instance level, many CPU and system architectures have direct access to power consumption metrics.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. In my experience it is a major factor – and a weak spot of most open source products (some of which don’t support it at all). Regards, Alex. Ragnar Lönn: Hi Alexander, I agree.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Embedding further simplifies database operations, reduces network overhead, and boosts read and query performance. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Technologies like Microsoft Bot framework, Facebook Bot Engine, and DailougeFlow open-source builds these bots. Image Source. Serverless Architecture. Image Source. API Blueprint.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. How can that be?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

An open-source tool that wraps custom SQL databases with a dynamic API and provides an intuitive admin app for managing its content. You can also use the open-source single page application Sanity Studio to quickly set up an editing environment that you can customize. Netlify CMS. Using GraphCMS. GraphCMS And GraphQL.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Martin Sústrik : Philosophers, by and large, tend to be architecture astronauts. Programmers' insight is that architecture astronauts fail. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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