The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. 80% of end-user response time is spent on the front end.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Reserved Instances. Expert Tip.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Find Your Performance Baseline.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

Scalemates.com flipped the switch to enable HTTP/3 and almost immediately HTTP/3 traffic rose to ~13% of all requests on the landing page, ~49% for all pages in total. The browser stores alt-svc info in alt-svc cache. Testing the Performance of HTTP/3. Protocol performance is rarely low0hanging fruit. Unexpected Results.

Network 64

Network Mobile Google Cache 64

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00. Large preview ).

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

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. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Cross Region Read Replicas also make it even easier for our global customers to scale database deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic, globally disperse applications.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 90

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), Existing Solutions Dual Writes In order to keep two datastores in sync, one could perform a dual write, which is executing a write to one datastore following a second write to the other. providing advanced search capabilities (ElasticSearch etc.), Now the challenge becomes how to keep these datastores in sync.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. More after jump!

Media 108

Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. This method augments the performance benefits of using a CDN while also ensuring redundancy and resilience and reducing costs.To

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. for example Open Connect Appliance cache configuration, supported device type IDs, supported payment method metadata, and A/B test configuration.

Cache 187

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 187

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. How are you monitoring end-user performance today?

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. This method augments the performance benefits of using a CDN while also ensuring redundancy and resilience and reducing costs.To

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

We need new data structures designed specifically for far memory that consider its assumptions and performance. A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Barry Pollard.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68