The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. By Yaron Elyashiv.

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Benchmarking Performance Design Network 119

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Challenges optimising whole programs. “ Challenges evolving programming languages. “ Challenges evolving programming languages.

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Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The phenomenon of plateauing ST performance is a consequence of design constraints – primarily power. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of a SOC in a current Ultrabook design is constrained to 15W. In view of this it is perhaps worth pondering why ST performance growth has stalled and some options to revive the growth.

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Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

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. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. He was also the founder and president of Mobile Portland, where he started the first community device lab.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Programming Languages. When you download the source code for HammerDB you can see that the programming language it is written in is called TCL. TCL was designed as a language to be closely tied with C/C++ and at this lower level there is the compiled TCL (tclsh) or TCL/TK (wish) interpreter and supporting libraries.

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Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. How much upfront design should you do?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Design To fully understand SQL Server I/O design, it is important to understand the basics of database file I/O operations, transaction log I/O operations, and transactional consistency maintenance. The I/O and transactional design of SQL Server ensures that the ACID properties are fully maintained.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

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