The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. That way, teams have more time to play.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

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. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

For questions regarding the process of registering or paying for Perform 2021 HOT, contact the Dynatrace University Program Team here. Learn what it takes to define and execute a migration strategy for a low-risk, smooth transition to the cloud. Click Review Payment and Confirm once payment has been completed. So where do you start?

Virtualization 183

Virtualization Benchmarking Best Practices Cloud 183

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Testing made easy An equally critical aspect of the database migration process is testing the migrated database to ensure everything will function correctly and no data will be lost or corrupted. To achieve this, a substantial commitment is necessary from your team to master effective testing strategies.

Database 82

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 82

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies. PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The merge strategy should work differently for the mergeable and non-mergeable components, so we need a way to tell the two cases apart. The synthesis process is quite straightforward as the expressive merge specification already describes what the result of a relational merge should be.

C++ 98

C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

Termination and exit strategy with an easy and smooth transition. To achieve the overall availability to your users, you first need to identify critical business transactions they perform , such as login, add product, edit product, upload image, process orders, download reports, and so on. Data portability among different vendors.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile Benchmarking 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Or let’s say that you’ve been getting numerous complaints regarding your onboarding/setup process for your product. When the work is ready to begin they go through an epic batching process to determine the more realistic scope of the work and what’s a feasible solution within the timeframe defined by the rough estimates. Pesky nails!

Design 93

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 93

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It is better to consider refactoring as part of the application transformation process before migrating, if possible. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices. Repeat this process throughout the different environments before development, staging, release, and production.

Architecture 232

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 232

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, this baseline measurement has become an important component of our sustainability strategy. Because Carbon Impact is integrated with Dynatrace Smartscape ® topology modeling, it’s easy to drill into host and process details. Download report Already a Dynatrace customer?

Energy 234

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 234

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis can be configured to optimally utilize both RDB and AOF persistence methods optimally, achieving a balance between speed and data safety while minimizing the impact on response times due to its child process handling for disk writes. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid! <p>The step in to simplify this task.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

We measure PostgreSQL throughput in terms of transactions processed. Throughput in general is the rate at which something is processed, and in terms of PostgreSQL, this is the number of transactions per second (TPS) your application can handle. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Benchmark Tool. Replication Strategies.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Complex transaction and process monitoring that might have deeper dependencies. What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You can hold them accountable and maintain a strategy for keeping them in line. Before allowing a new third party, implement a vetting process to make sure it passes some basic guidelines around performance. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. Teams love to win and hate to lose.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Safeguarding information privacy must be taken very seriously as any processing entrusted to outside suppliers could become a cause for concern. This automation of processes allows more time dedicated to fulfilling core tasks efficiently without any extra effort required on your part.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Suboptimal Partitioning Strategies : Choosing the wrong partitioning strategy or key can lead to performance degradation. Documentation : Always be documenting!

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

While AWS takes the operational overhead for operating Lambda functions off your shoulders, using Lambda functions at a larger scale requires mature deployment strategies. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Deployment and orchestration are harder. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 221

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 221

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

While AWS takes the operational overhead for operating Lambda functions off your shoulders, using Lambda functions at a larger scale requires mature deployment strategies. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Deployment and orchestration are harder. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 183

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 183

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here, we first cover the basics of MySQL Triggers, and then we take a deeper dive, exploring their impact on memory usage and providing strategies to optimize MySQL server performance. Completion of Trigger : Once the trigger’s code is executed for one row, it proceeds to the next affected row (if any) and repeats the process.

Cache 60

Cache Database Games Healthcare 60

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

The easiest way to validate your metrics is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data, like this: In the example above (taken from our Industry Benchmarks ) you can see: Start Render does correlate to content appearing in the viewport. Avoiding alert fatigue is crucial to the success of your performance budget strategy.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. It is a process put in place to check that an application, set to be released in the market for users, has a minimum number of errors. Introduction. Starting without a Test Plan. Assuming Product Won’t Evolve.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. Failover is a manual process and may result in last-minute data loss.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Strict serializability reduces application code complexity and bugs, since it behaves like a system that is running on a single machine processing transactions sequentially. When data for single home transactions is processed within a region, SLOG works similarly to Calvin with data partitioned across servers.

Latency 70

Latency Processing Benchmarking Systems 70

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. Large preview ). What To Measure.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. ” A good question!

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If the Lighthouse tool audits your site using what Google considers to be best practices, the thought process goes, then the results can help you understand how Google will view your site. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature. Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46