The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. We’re using cvxpy as a nice generic symbolic front-end to represent the problem which can then be fed into various open-source or proprietary MIP solver backends.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

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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. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. Implementing dedicated mounts for components such as binlogs and datadir is a recommended standard practice. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. Who can benefit from DLV?

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers.

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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. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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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. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. This is it. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

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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.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. 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. Congestion Control. And it gets worse.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Just think about landing pages and product photos, feature panels and hero areas.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. 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).

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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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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