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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. which allows fast deployment times and rapid scalability.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. compared to early 2015.

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Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

The Netflix TechBlog

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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

Smashing Magazine

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.