The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. The user can choose the most suitable tool for manipulating data, such as Pandas or Polars to use a dataframe API, or one of our internal C++ libraries for various high-performance operations. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 24, 2024

Tim's approach was to filter out the noise introduced by really fast response times that can be caused by leveraging the browser cache, prerendering, and other performance optimization techniques. For example, full-page navigations have very different characteristics than bfcache navigations.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Level 2: Hosts and containers You might run thousands of hosts and containers, many of which have been sized by prioritizing performance over energy consumption. A few examples: Reduce roundtrips between services (for example, the N+1 query pattern). And data-observability solutions focus on performance, not carbon emissions.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? jpg in the example above) will not change. Below is an example for Nginx that manages the delivery of WebP assets on your origin server. Enable the Feature for your Zones Cache Key WebP can be enabled for all Pull Zones.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. This is best illustrated with an example.

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. of the dialog boxes.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Moreover, common database optimizations like caching recently queried data don’t really work for alerting queries because, generally speaking, the last received datapoint is required for correctness. For the example query listed above, the data expressions are name,errors,:eq,:sum and name,rps,:eq,:sum.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With performance at the forefront of my mind, I decided to head over to MDN for a fresh look at the Performance API. The Performance API is huge in that it contains a lot of different interfaces, properties, and methods. The element performance metric type doesn’t work with the performance.getEntries() method anyway.

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n0derunner

DECEMBER 18, 2018

How to improve large DB read performance by 2X. In our experiment we deliberately size the active working-set to NOT fit into the metadata cache. Additionally AES reduces the need to cache metadata in DRAM since local access is so fast. The post Nutanix AES: Performance By Example PT2 appeared first on n0derunner.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it.

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CSS - Tricks

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Back/forward cache — I always assumed browsers just do fancy stuff with the back/forward buttons and us developers had very little control. Philip Walton tells us it’s critical that we understand “what makes pages eligible (and ineligible) for bfcache to maximize their cache-hit rates.” GIF never wins.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Performance spools are lazy spools added by the optimizer to reduce the estimated cost of the inner side of nested loops joins. An example plan shape showing a lazy table performance spool is below: The questions I set out to answer in this article are why, how, and when the query optimizer introduces each type of performance spool.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. For example, Arial and Georgia are packaged with Windows, macOS and Linux distributions. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. Danny Cooper. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 Content Targets Desktop Devices Networks Mobile Devices Networks Developing Your Own Targets The Performance Inequality Gap is Growing. Last month, I had the honour of joining what seemed like the entire web performance community at performance.now() in Amsterdam. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.) Also measured by round trip time (RTT).

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Recently I was working with a customer wherein our focus was to carry out a performance audit of their multiple MySQL database nodes. We started looking into the stats of the performance schema. I realized that it is important to understand the insights of the performance schema and how we can make effective use of it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

This extension provides fully app-centric Cassandra performance monitoring for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Element Performance : A user can reach the information of the performance of each element that exists in waterfall chart. In the image below, it is pointed at with the arrow.

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