The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. But dreams die hard. This raises a follow-on question: what's an interaction?

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Many have adroitly covered the perspective and ethical distortions within social media firms caused by the relentless pursuit of "north star" metrics. iOS's security track record, patch velocity, and update latency for its required-use engine is not best-in-class. There's little new I can add.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. A sample output by imaging-heap , a command line tool that measure the efficiency across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. Images are the most popular resource type on the web and are often the largest.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145