The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. Getting Started ConsoleMe is available on GitHub (Give us a ?!). What is ConsoleMe?

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AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 251

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals.

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. MySQL itself does not provide the capability for taking file system snapshots but it is available using third-party solutions such as LVM or ZFS. Did you look at the file size?

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. You just plug the theme provider in there and Chakra does the rest of the work and it just becomes available everywhere. That you, is available from the makers of Chakra, but as a commercial offering. Some of these are actually available.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

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. For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 104

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. One large team generally maintains the source code in a centralized repository that’s visible to all engineers, who commit their code in a single build. With monolithic architecture, components all coexist in a single deployment.

Architecture 199

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 199

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Some of the factors that affect user experience include: Availability : Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? Break down silos.

Mobile 216

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 216

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Cumulative Layout Shift (Synthetic and RUM) Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web Vitals.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it.

Google 145

Google Design Code Mobile 145

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. The best practices describes how testing tool can add an additional HTTP Header called x-dynatrace-test to each simulated request.

Engineering 191

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 191

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. Here’s how we do it at Bookaway.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. Editing Experience. Content Previews.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img kB gzipped and it’s already available on GitHub , npm , and jsDelivr.

Website 103

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. Once you open the DevTools, you will see a “Lighthouse” tab. Once the CLI has been installed successfully, ru lhci --help to view all the available commands that the tool provides.

Performance 78

Performance Storage Servers Virtualization 78

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service. Large preview ). Large preview ). The resource requests for these fonts (.woff

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). It is an open-source front-end library based on JavaScript used in web development for creating interactive components and User Interfaces. Source: moz.com.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Source: [link]. Preact is an alternative to React developed by Jason Miller and many contributors under the open-source MIT license. Source: [link]. Source: [link].

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. Before we get into the specifics, let’s first recap the benefits OpenTelemetry offers and why using collectors is a best practice. The complete list of the components is available in our GitHub repository.

Open Source 282

Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning 282

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. Before we get into the specifics, let’s first recap the benefits OpenTelemetry offers and why using collectors is a best practice. The complete list of the components is available in our GitHub repository.

Open Source 130

Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Let’s figure it all out.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). The goal was to develop a new open-source video coding format that is both state-of-the-art and royalty-free. Jump to table of contents ?.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104