The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? CSS Generators. What’s New In Drupal 9?

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. 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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. DRM-free, of course.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. DRM-free, of course.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145