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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

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 chose Mantis as our backbone to transport and process large volumes of trace data because we needed a backpressure-aware, scalable stream processing system.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

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Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

The Netflix TechBlog

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. Large preview ).