The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our trace data collection agent transports traces to Mantis job cluster via the Mantis Publish library.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Adopting spot instances for less critical tasks, which are less expensive than on-demand or reserved instances, is an efficient way of managing expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. Distributed tracing is the process of generating, transporting, storing, and retrieving traces in a distributed system. What is Edgar? starting and finishing a method).

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145