The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation. Seer in action.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Benchmark Against Competitors.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. Who can benefit from DLV? Are DLVs effective for your RDS instance?

AWS 102

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 102

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks. Compare that, for example, to recent data from Open Signal about actual speeds observed in India. We’re still nowhere close for 4G.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM collects data on each user action within a session, including the time required to complete the action, so IT pros can identify patterns and where to make improvements in experience.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With request tracing and additional data from logs, events, metadata, and analysis, Edgar is able to show the flow of a request through our distributed system?—?what But, there are a few substantial differences in how Edgar approaches its data and its users. Adding logs to the picture can help a great deal.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This data is from the 2007 presentation. To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

Games 124

Games Latency Traffic Cache 124

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level? You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level? You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency. Photo by von Vix.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best. This flexibility helps businesses seamlessly transition their databases to the AWS cloud without significant disruptions.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Before Jio's disruptive pricing and aggressive rollout, data services in India were among the most expensive in the world relative to income and heavily reliant on 3G outside wealthier "tier 1" cities. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Given the conflicted data we see across our other systems, this seems about right as a baseline.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Furthermore, using data from case studies and experiments published on WPO Stats will help increase sensitivity for business about why performance matters, and what impact it has on user experience and business metrics. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Furthermore, using data from case studies and experiments published on WPO Stats will help increase sensitivity for business about why performance matters, and what impact it has on user experience and business metrics. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145