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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. State Of Mobile 2021. That might come a little bit unexpected. billion by 2026.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Despite its advantages, Redis’s versatility can introduce complexities, potentially challenging developers familiar with simpler solutions such as Memcached.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. We will focus on following areas for extending Edgar: Provide a great developer experience for collecting traces across all runtime environments.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

With extensive computational resources at their disposal alongside massive pools of information, developers can utilize these powerful tools to train ML models efficiently or run AI algorithms effectively by accessing stored datasets from anywhere through the internet connection provided by most reputable providers’ hosting services.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Test at Every Stage of Development. Benchmark Against Competitors. Then, they can effectively benchmark their own performance against those key competitors over time. Synthetic Monitoring.

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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. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Android development is a booming business because of the number of users it has. It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

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Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One of the key strengths of synthetic monitoring solutions is that they can help you assess the performance and user experience (UX) of a site without requiring large volumes of real users driving traffic, a known weakness RUM or APM solutions. Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. And BOOM, you’re done!

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day. The Moto G7 very much looks the part.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. MB video, so it’s likely that developers followed a similar process to compress and encode the.webm variant as well. Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy. Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn more here!

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. There was all sorts of similar controversy when the first carriers started rolling out supposed 4G networks. We’re still nowhere close for 4G.

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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”). Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment. In some places 70-80% of all sysadmin time is expended on the management of development environments.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment. In some places 70-80% of all sysadmin time is expended on the management of development environments.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It is much worse to be a software developer now. JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 I acknowledge that. It's the fastest device I've ever tested.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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. conversions. time on site. page views. user satisfaction. user retention. Case studies are a great way to convert performance skeptics.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Again, these are management problems. --> In the midst of these crises, thoughtful organisations begin to develop a performance management discipline. Teams that develop these advantages progress through a hierarchy of performance management practices. Teams can get stuck at Level 1, treating each turn through a Development ??

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Establish a performance culture. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

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