The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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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. If a server fails, the load balancer redirects traffic to a replicated server in another cluster.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. By analyzing disk I/O metrics, you can optimize queries to reduce disk reads or upgrade to faster storage solutions. Next, take a look at your metrics for the InnoDB Log File usage.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Engineers and managers on these teams universally want to deliver great experiences and have many questions about how to approach common challenges. Thankfully, much of what once needed hand-debugging by browser engineers has become automated and self-serve thanks to those collaborations. Level 1: Fire Fighting #. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! 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.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. Amazon Aurora is a relational, proprietary, closed-source database engine with all that that implies. Remember that certain MySQL features like the MyISAM storage engine are not available with Amazon Aurora. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. To hook different people on performance, you need to understand which metric motivates them. conversions. time on site. page views. user satisfaction.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For engineers, instead of whodunit, the question is often “what failed and why?” An engineer can find herself digging through logs, poring over traces, and staring at dozens of dashboards. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145