The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Managed DBaaS solutions like ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Davis will also assist Site Reliability Guardian in recommending relevant objectives and baselines for comparison.

DevOps 219

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 219

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 192

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

Software 263

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 263

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.

Google 129

Google Performance Website Mobile 129

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The built-in unified analysis pages offer real-time comparison of key performance indicators while applying a topology-first approach to the data. The F5 BIG-IP LTM extension offers a complete view, beyond simple metrics, into your Local Traffic Manager (LTM) platform. Advanced load balancer analysis. ” What’s next.

Network 210

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 210

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With your RUM Compare dashboard, you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Traffic 54

Traffic Metrics Speed Mobile 54

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

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

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

RUM: Performance heat maps. Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. All performance recommendations are badged, so you can see which Core Web Vitals you're improving when you fix performance issues.

Testing 52

Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Performance has always mattered. With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. The network performance engineer who managed the sniffer was the guru. The DC RUM wave. Technology developments come in waves.

Network 166

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 166

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Automated release inventory and version comparison , which allows teams to easily evaluate the performance of individual release versions, and as needed, roll back to a previous version. Automated release inventory and version comparison. ” – Wim Verhaeghe, KBI-Connect DevOps team lead at Inetum-Realdolmen.

Cloud 167

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 167

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

How is the new version behaving in comparison to previous versions? The release inventory highlights releases that include detected problems and shows the throughput of those versions so that you see how much traffic is routed to each release. Introduction, Demo, Training: Performance Clinic.

Software 238

Software Software Strategy Metrics 238

Speed Curve

MAY 29, 2022

Traffic size. We see a large variety of sites at SpeedCurve, representing an assortment of countries, industry segments, traffic levels and more. Traffic fluctuates based on the hour of the day, day of the week, and due to seasonality. Histograms are great for showing the performance characteristics of an entire population.

Traffic 52

Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 52

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks. provides higher compression rates.

Storage 110

Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

Google 92

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 92

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Making A Case For Business. Driving Business Metrics.

Mobile 135

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. What is the primary benefit of multi-cloud solutions in comparison to hybrid cloud solutions? </p>

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. A quick way to fix this is simply by temporarily changing the TTL (time to live) setting for the DNS record, and route your traffic to the second DNS server until the outage is fixed.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website. Of concern here is the regular expression matching performed by the Full Matcher.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data we get from real user monitoring (RUM) is extremely useful when trying to get a grasp on performance. Not only does it serve as the source of truth for your most important budgets and KPIs, it help us understand that performance is a broad distribution that encompasses many different cohorts of users. Investigate anomalies.

Traffic 52

Traffic Monitoring Metrics Performance 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to so many people from so many different companies about web performance. But one question that almost every person asks me – regardless of what industry they're in or the size of their organization – is this: How can I create a stronger culture of web performance at my company?

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance. I’ve had time to work with DebugBear and thought I’d give you a peek at it with some notes on my experience using it to monitor performance.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. When looking at the load event for comparison, we can see that the first input occurs very late.

Metrics 109

Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That said, I’ve been looking at performance data for many years and have found myself on both sides of the debate about whether or not the practice of sampling performance data is inherently a good or bad idea. How distributed is your traffic? Are sessions important to you? That’s fine, too!

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! State of the real user web performance. State of Content Management Systems ( CMS ) performance. The current state of CMS performance around the world is not so great. But looking at the data, that is not the case.

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis. What this chart summarizes is that.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. For a comparison between Foundation and Bootstrap, read our complete article, Bootstrap vs Foundation. Pros: No style lock-in, so you have greater flexibility.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time? us on Ubuntu.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126