The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. It may further disorient you to know that competing iOS browser vendors are still prevented from delivering their own engines.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. DevOps and cloud-based solutions mingle in such a synchronous manner, it seems like they were developed to support each other even though this is not true in any aspect. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps?

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. But for many practical reasons, including security, numerous techniques have been developed to differentiate between different instances of chips.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments (). The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Thus, implementing error tracking from the very beginning of the development cycle will save your team a lot of time and headaches. Reproducing Bugs Reproducing bugs in web development means seeing errors for yourself by recreating the conditions under which they occur.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

So if you run Lighthouse on your high-powered developer machine and get great scores, that may not be reflective of what the users experience in the real world, and so what Google will use to measure your website user experience. Lighthouse also performs nearly 50 our checks on extra Opportunities and Diagnostics.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. So make a competitors list.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Establish a performance culture. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105