The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. Partnering to Productize Security Jose & Arthur (Netflix Cloud Gateway): The Cloud Gateway team develops and operates Netflix’s “ Front Door ”. Specify a domain name?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. Evaluating page experience for a better web Ignore Lighthouse/PageSpeed Scores This is one of the most pervasive and definitely the most common misunderstandings I see surrounding site-speed and SEO. None whatsoever.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down! What is DNS? A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. "What, then, is a 'browser'?"

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

On the plus side, for the last few days, the mean is actually higher than the p75 value since p75, by definition, filters out the extremes completely. This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. CrUX is Chrome only.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Although the definition may seem straightforward, in the real-world, a distributed system is one of the most complex environments to understand, manage, and monitor.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Definitions. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. cents per gigabyte for storage versus 9 cents per gigabyte of data transfer out to the Internet at the time of writing). Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Nothing hits Angular once it comes to reducing the traffic between client and server. Better functions even at the average internet connection. So, Angular or React? Super high-speed rendering.

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet. With apologies to the authors of said patches, they don't look all that interesting (which is definitely exactly what you want just before a release).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ). With approx.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In practice, it turns out we should prefer defer to async (at a cost to users of Internet Explorer up to and including version 9, because you’re likely to break scripts for them). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In practice, it turns out we should prefer defer to async (at a cost to users of Internet Explorer up to and including version 9, because you’re likely to break scripts for them). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145