The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. We collect the failure metrics to be checked and fixed later. Backend processing may take time from seconds to minutes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now we’re adding Smartscape to DQL and two new data sources to Grail: Metrics on Grail and Traces on Grail. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. Grail solves this scalability issue!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If that service is slow, failing, or not available at all it results in frustration mentioned in some of the comments on social media and the app store. In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives? Availability. App Rating. Response time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. Which experience am I most likely to share, with friends or on social media? The hotel’s rental subsidiary limits their IT monitoring to internal system metrics, with no visibility into user journeys or business transactions.

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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? No constraints in form input fields.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 16, 2020

WebPageTest supports custom metrics, which are pretty much what they sound like: they’re metrics that you define when you run a test. You provide the logic for the metrics using a snippet of JavaScript. The following custom metric snippet sets up two custom metrics: num-initial-scripts and num-total-scripts. [

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. Which experience am I most likely to share, with friends or on social media? The hotel’s rental subsidiary limits their IT monitoring to internal system metrics, with no visibility into user journeys or business transactions.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

Their ability to serve the tiniest possible font files tailored to specific user agents and platforms is amazing, and with such a huge, freely-available library served from Google-grade CDNs… I definitely see why people continue to turn to it. I’m happy to say, for the metrics that matter the most, we are 700–1,200ms faster.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Modern observability tools provide many metrics, but which ones are really important for your business?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The most important things to have in mind, and measure KPIs for, when working towards delivery of excellent Digital Experiences are: Availability: Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? Is the functionality available frictionless? I tend to lean towards social media for evaluating this.

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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. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content. 263–1–8 (2023) [ online ] [2] A. Choudhury, L. Krasula, S.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How fast should I be?

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. Available at: [link].

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

IT teams can’t see into the internal state of Kubernetes containers , so they often collect a wide variety of telemetry data — such as logs, metrics, and distributed traces — to compensate for this lack of visibility. Like Kubernetes, it allocates resources efficiently and ensures high availability and fault tolerance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. On December 9, 2021, the first indicators of the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell) began to reverberate across the world.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 21, 2017

That's why we're very excited to introduce Hero Rendering Times, a set of new metrics for measuring the user experience. These metrics are available right now to SpeedCurve users. A brief history of UX metrics. This metric, which is measured in WebPageTest , identifies when the visible parts of a page are displayed.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence. Still not available for iOS or iPadOS. Media Recorder.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages. Lights, Camera, Media! Now that we understand what media workflows are, let’s take a look at some of the workflows we’ve enabled.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period. Developer Labs, Logging and Metrics We have been continually improving logging and metrics, and revamped the documentation to reflect the latest state of Conductor.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Key metrics. These visuals are a great tool for validating the best metrics to focus on for your pages. UK & EU.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Every day we access applications to shop online, stream TV shows, connect to social media, manage finances, and work. Dynatrace news. Performance monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9 Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Every day we access applications to shop online, stream TV shows, connect to social media, manage finances, and work. Dynatrace news. Performance monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. This is available at an origin-level (i.e.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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