The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. 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.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

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. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

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. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. Smashing Podcast: Tune In And Get Inspired.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

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. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. As such, a micro-optimization is, again, how you probably need to fine-tune things on a low level to really benefit from it.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. Stay tuned! (vf,

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105