The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. It was time to take a step back and reevaluate our ES data indexing and sharding strategy. We also changed our mapping strategy to overcome these issues.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. Application performance. Some of these problems (e.g.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post can help you get acquainted with the most prominent security risks and protection strategies. Cache Poisoning - In cache poisoning attacks, attackers manipulate the CDN by multiple content requests. This is solely the responsibility of CDNs and doesn't involve CDN clients or security add-ons CDN provides.To

Strategy 52

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. Bookaway site search.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post can help you get acquainted with the most prominent security risks and protection strategies. Cache Poisoning - In cache poisoning attacks, attackers manipulate the CDN by multiple content requests. This is solely the responsibility of CDNs and doesn't involve CDN clients or security add-ons CDN provides.To

Strategy 40

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Caching Stylesheets.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Without infrastructure-level support, every team ends up building their own point solution to varying degrees of success. Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. This deletes the underlying data as well (e.g.

Cache 187

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 187

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. In the absence of a proper backup strategy, the data can be lost forever, leading to significant financial and reputational damage. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith. Lastly, owning an enterprise CMS is a costly affair.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Linux open command flag used to bypass file system cache.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. These countries generally have a combination of poor technical infrastructure and low adoption, meaning data is both costly to deliver and doesn’t have the economy of scale to drive costs down.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Design Optimizations.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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 data modeling: Understand embedding vs. referencing data MongoDB offers two strategies for storing related data: embedding and referencing. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. Performance budgets keep everyone on the same.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Planning, planning, planning.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145