The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized. The graphic below (Fig.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Benchmark results for DLV-enabled instance vs. standard instance Write-only traffic Read-write traffic Read-only traffic Benchmarking analysis For both read-only and read-write traffic, there is a constant improvement in the QPS counters as the number of threads increases.

AWS 93

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 93

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. The built-in unified analysis pages offer real-time comparison of key performance indicators while applying a topology-first approach to the data. Start monitoring in minutes. Begin network monitoring by simply deploying an extension with just a few clicks.

Network 212

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 212

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With your RUM Compare dashboard, you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Traffic 54

Traffic Metrics Speed Mobile 54

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. Technology developments come in waves.

Network 166

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 166

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The results – including detailed performance optimization recommendations – are available in your test details. With your RUM Compare dashboard , you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of real user data. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

How is the new version behaving in comparison to previous versions? The release inventory highlights releases that include detected problems and shows the throughput of those versions so that you see how much traffic is routed to each release. This enables higher visibility of security risks that are introduced with specific releases.

Software 240

Software Software Strategy Metrics 240

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I selfishly look at my blog posts (like this one) and see whether LinkedIn, or Twitter, drove more traffic! Lastly, I often do a week on week or quarterly comparisons with simple date toggles so I can compare time periods. The other simple dashboard I use, which is available by default is below.

Google 150

Google Analytics Traffic Operating System 150

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

s Time taken to import 120000000 document: 7412 seconds We can see from the above comparison that we can save almost 3GB of disk space without impacting the CPU or memory. engineConfig: cacheSizeGB: 4 In the above example, blockCompressorQuality is set to 6, which is the default. Network compression MongoDB also offers network compression.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, if a lookup fails and times out to your first DNS server it queries the next DNS server until the correct IP address is returned, or it is unable to resolve as seen in the infamous "This webpage is not available" error below. DNS speed comparison report Who offers the best free DNS? They do quite well actually.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP. Check out our reports: JPG to WebP - Size Comparison WebP results in a 85.87% decrease in image size on average. PNG to WebP - Size Comparison WebP results in a 42.8%

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. A comparison of the previous and new steps to accomplish the same goals is shown in the table below. exe files is available with OneAgent version 1.167 and Dynatrace SaaS version 1.168. We decided to change this and build only one artifact, *.exe

Storage 116

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 116

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. background-image: url(); The WebPageTest comparison. is available for you to look through, though we’ll pick apart individual waterfalls later in the article. Set appropriate alarms. Have a morning routine that everyone follows. Leave the house with plenty of time to spare.

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Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But Vitals have some limitations, such as: They're only available in Chromium-based browsers. You can prioritize them by how many URLs they affect or how much of your real user traffic they affect. These offers are available until December 31, 2023, so act soon! They don't always correlate to what users see.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

I think this information is both interesting and useful, in particular given the wide variety of framework and platform choices currently available to front-end and fullstack developers. The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic.

Google 127

Google Performance Website Mobile 127

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website. This makes the whole system latency sensitive.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

If there is a sudden increase in traffic for an application that fails on the public cloud, it becomes impractical to use cloud bursting as a solution which leads to inevitable periods without service. This enables organizations to optimize their use of the variety of available clouds to efficiently meet specific requirements.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. But does it need to be available immediately ? We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread. Probably not.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Step 7 accomplished : While there are several options to compare test runs, the multi dimensional analysis view gives us a great starting point into the comparison views of Dynatrace. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 193

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 193

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. Pros: No style lock-in, so you have greater flexibility.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When looking at the load event for comparison, we can see that the first input occurs very late. Traffic for these sites has been extremely high, given increased online activity due to COVID, not to mention the huge volume of cyber shopping happening as we speak. Page experience timeline illustrating typical sequence of metrics.

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While real user monitoring tools aren’t typically looked at as a replacement for marketing analytics tools, having session metrics available with your performance data is pretty great for anyone who cares about performance. How distributed is your traffic? Are you only interested in a specific type of traffic?

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. Lighthouse results.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

You just need to hit the URL and launch the application on the available browser on your phone. It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Why is mobile web browser testing important?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The core application of machine learning discussed in this paper is the model which orders available listings according to a guest’s likelihood of booking. Note that the Airbnb team already had experience with machine learning, data pipelines in place, and an online controlled experiment platform available. An ecosystem of models.

Network 82

Network Architecture Tuning Traffic 82

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. How long is each time call?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You can use it for your own private data, and I’ve worked at or with organizations that did, but there is also a wealth of public datasets available for you to dig into. For example, the CrUX data is contained in one massive table, as well as broken up into smaller tables for each country’s traffic.

Traffic 56

Traffic Metrics Efficiency Monitoring 56

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. Stored Procedures and Client SQL comparison To test the stored procedures and client implementations, we ran both workloads against a system equipped with Intel Xeon 8280L.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For example, here is what a comparison report looks like in Rigor. Synthetic monitoring is one of the best ways to detect outages or availability issues since it actively tests your site from the outside. Can you collect multiple samples of each configuration, and compare those on a graph? And BOOM, you’re done!

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Two-way Data Binding Availability. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Two-way Data Binding Availability. Nothing hits Angular once it comes to reducing the traffic between client and server. Angular has a steep learning curve comparison with React.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. People on your marketing team probably care about traffic and engagement. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. Lara Hogan has written an excellent book called Designing for Performance , and she's kindly made the text available online. conversions.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. See the Pen [Example - without fetch priority]([link] by Adrian Bece. See the Pen Example - without fetch priority by Adrian Bece.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69