The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. Using AWS, JUMO has been able to process this data more than 1 000 times faster. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. This allows the browser’s preload scanner to detect and download the image early in the process — something it cannot parse from a CSS file.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. Problem Statement The microservice managed and processed large files, including encrypting them and then storing them on S3. biolatency From [bcc], this eBPF tool shows a latency histogram of disk I/O.

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

While basic, I've solved many perf issues with this tool alone, including for misconfigured systems where a shell script is launching failing processes in a loop, and when some minor application is crashing and is restarting every few minutes but has not yet been noticed. ## 2. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. acpid [.]

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Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. These clusters are in high demand and approximate query processing both saves their users time and lightens the overall load on the cluster. What are all these jobs doing??

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. Through adopting a cloud first policy, they have helped to reduce the government procurement process for new technology from months to less than two weeks.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. However, customers with these use cases need a way to more easily and reliably target Availability Zones.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. ^C Some one-liners: # New processes with arguments bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve { join(args->argv); }'.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Ways to Optimize Your Images There are many ways that you can optimize your images, such as utilizing image processing services and image compression software, choosing better image formats, using srcset and sizes attributes.

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

That makes sense: with serverless being relatively young, formal training is difficult to find, specific documentation must be generated, and case studies to learn from—while growing—are harder to come by. latency, startup, mocking, etc.) “Educating current staff” was the No. changing the integration landscape—at least for now.

Serverless 87

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 87

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best. On the other hand, RDS MySQL allows only up to five replicas, and the replication process is slower than Aurora.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. ^C Some one-liners: # New processes with arguments bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve { join(args->argv); }'.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Platforms such as Snipcart , CommerceLayer , headless Shopify , and Stripe enable you to manage products in a friendly UI while taking advantage of the benefits of Jamstack: Amazon’s famous study reported that for every 100ms in latency, they lose 1% of sales. For the more complex enterprise use cases, we have fewer examples.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140