The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). Security Events Platform See open source project such as StreamAlert and Siddhi to get some general ideas.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. In the example below, I will show how to set the WiredTiger cache.

Scalability 57

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 57

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Furthermore, proper mount options can improve performance noticeably.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? What Is CUBE CSS?

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. Sanity pairs a real-time data store with three open-source tools: a powerful query language (GROQ), a CMS (Sanity Studio), and a rich-text data specification (Portable Text). Large preview ). Portable Text.

Serverless 77

Serverless Cache Open Source Code 77

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization. Each pillar brings business and technology leaders together to help organizations choose architecture options that best strategically align to their specific business priorities as they begin their cloud journey. Missing caching layers.

Azure 187

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 187

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By understanding these challenges and following best practices, you can make the most of triggers while minimizing potential drawbacks. Exploring How Triggers Impact MySQL Memory Allocation MySQL stores active table descriptors in a special memory buffer called the table open cache.

Cache 59

Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

For Performance Monitoring Many of you reading this may already be familiar with Next.js, but it is a popular open-source JavaScript framework that allows us to monitor our website’s performance in real-time. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

High availability architecture for open source databases No matter where a database infrastructure is located (on-premises, public or private cloud environment, or hybrid environment) or what technology is used — be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB — it’s vital to eliminate single points of failure.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Software Development Kits (SDKs) for various technologies, languages and platforms are available directly from the Headless vendor, an open-source initiative or a third-party. Also, building on an existing SDK has allowed us to follow the best practices recommended by the vendor while saving time. Native SDKs.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. Lighthouse also caught a cache misconfiguration that prevented some of our static assets from being served from our CDN. It wasn’t enough.

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

However, distributed systems are inherently complex and consist of many components: message brokers, databases, distributed caches, integration points, REST APIs, front-ends, and more. The flow in this article is just a simple example to illustrate the point…and an opportunity to remind you of this best practice at the same time.

Systems 52

Systems C++ Azure Metrics 52

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

I included a sequence creation statement for the id column since one best practice is always to have a primary key column, but for the specific examples we will go through, we don’t need it. then true else false end FROM generate_series(1, 10000000); Now we have our test table with some dummy data so we can practice.

Best Practices 87

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 87

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology.

Traffic 121

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. A new open-source project called Partytown provides a library that implements a communications layer to make this work.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It remains the most widely used open source distributed version control system over a decade after its initial release. Set the preferred text editor: git config –system core.editor Open and edit the global configuration file in the text editor: git config –global –edit Enable command line highlighting: git config –global color.ui

Best Practices 58

Best Practices Open Source Cache Systems 58

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Worked on that full-time open source for about three years I think. Transcript. Drew: Yeah.

Media 87

Media Website Architecture Servers 87

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. And it gets worse. also needs to execute. Finally convinced?

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. will optimize images dynamically upon request and store them in a local cache. By reducing main-thread CPU usage, FID can also be reduced.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103