The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. The table below is showing the total amount of traffic used.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To ensure continuous availability, it‘s essential to proactively analyze potential problems and optimize the environment in advance to minimize the negative impact on users and improve user experience. The proper focus and best optimization level must be chosen wisely to get the most out of the available time.

Efficiency 244

Efficiency Best Practices DevOps Open Source 244

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

Architecture 98

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 98

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

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. LDAP support is available in MongoDB Enterprise but not in MongoDB Community Edition. Thankfully, LDAP can fill many of these gaps.

Best Practices 41

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? How Can I Build An App In 10 Days?

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. So let’s discuss some options that are open source.

Database 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment. This ensures that the advantages of DLV extend to enhanced availability and reliability in Multi-AZ configurations. Get in touch

AWS 98

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low.

AWS 199

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 199

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. Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability.

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 104

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. MongoDB Replication Strategies. minutes of downtime in one year.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

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. MLP 2.0), a renowned open-source license, to the Business Source License (BSL) v1.1.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

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

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. That part is not automated (yet).

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. It’s up to you! Using Lighthouse.

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

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. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 198

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 198

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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

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

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Shipping of the printed book will start late May. Print + eBook.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. keptn is an open source enterprise-grade control plane for cloud-native continuous delivery and automated operations.

DevOps 104

DevOps Software Software Best Practices 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 145

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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104