Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

Storage 95

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 95

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Serve In Next-generation (Next-gen) Formats, Encode Efficiently. It is an open-source AV1 image file format for storing still and animated images with better lossy and lossless compression than most popular formats on the web today, offering a 50% saving in file size compared to JPEG. . <picture> Cache Your Images.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. MongoDB security: Monitor MongoDB performance regularly As with any database, it’s essential to monitor MongoDB performance to ensure it’s running with optimal efficiency and effectiveness.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) Most applications in content and studio engineering at Netflix deal with assets; such as videos, images, text, etc. are stored in secure storage layers.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. To limit Cumulative Layout Shift being caused by images without dimensions, include width and height size attributes on your images and video elements. Lighthouse. Large preview ). Note: Next.js

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In order to create change across our entire organization, we needed to get all the relevant employees, partners, and even customers up to speed about performance quickly and efficiently. This includes features like videos and animations, sophisticated interactions, and greater customization. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. Drupal is not just a CMS.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

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.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105