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. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

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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. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Most of the problems caused by static assets like photos and videos are because they are big files.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? 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. What about UHD video? (The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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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.

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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). when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. That’s the one with plenty of video embeds.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

These insightful videos will provide you with information from industry insiders that you can use to plan for upcoming events, start conversations, and make an impact in your own organization. ” Then, use that data to determine whether the site can handle that volume of traffic and to start planning for how to prepare the site.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default. If you have any other theories or information on this — I’d love to know, so please drop a message in the comments below.

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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. Adrian Bece.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

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