O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unpredictable wait times : Wait times (latency) for ChatGPT’s responses are unpredictable, and there aren’t audio cues to help me establish an expectation for how long I need to wait before it responds. Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g.,

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Stay tuned for more details on this, as well as more details on the internals of the new SKU Platform in one of our upcoming blog posts. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

A latency outlier issue that happened every 15 minutes. You can focus on engineering and getting stuff done, with awesome staff who will help you. ## Mission I spoke about this in my 2015 post, but it's worth repeating: our mission is to improve how entertainment is consumed worldwide, by building a great product that people choose to buy.

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76