The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Event sourcing removes this problem by creating a separate database for retrieving data.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? How to make your website faster.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies. This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks. Direct seeding of new database replicas.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145