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. Internally, we also built an event-driven platform that is fully written in Python.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Synchronization is achieved through a logical clock to maintain and order events. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

It’s an unusual event, held at the end of May at an isolated hotel between Denver and Boulder Colorado, the agenda is curated by Eric Norlin, and the 2-day event is run by his wife Kimberley. It’s friendly, diverse, has good food and is very much an in-person make new friends kind of event.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

events processed to date 300k+ users globally 50% of the Fortune 100 use @pagerduty 10,500+ customers of every size 300+ integrations ?? Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. They'll love you even more. RachFrieee : 3.6B

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

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

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I don’t get to Europe very often apart from ISO C++ standards meetings, but this spring I’ve been able to accept invitations for two English-language European events in the last week of April. If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. Hardware And E-Waste. Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ). Measuring The Impact.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. mysqld] core-file Note: In an event of a crash, the OS dumps all the contents from memory in the core file.

Programming 82

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 82

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

At Grid Dynamics, we recently faced a necessity to build an in-stream data processing system that aimed to crunch about 8 billion events daily providing fault-tolerance and strict transactioanlity i.e. none of these events can be lost or duplicated. The signature is initially initialized by the event ID. Lineage Tracking.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Pointer Events. is access to hardware devices. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) ga('send', 'event', { eventCategory: 'Web Vitals', eventAction: name, // The `id` value will be unique to the current page load. delta * 1000 : delta), // Use a non-interaction event to avoid affecting bounce rate. CrUX is Chrome only.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

We found all the answers you need at the Percona Live event last month, and broke down the insights into the following free trends reports: Top Databases Used : Open Source vs. Commercial. Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet. Public Cloud.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). Live kernel patching is another capability, that is currently being integrated in the 4.x x series.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. For that one, you can monitor Hero Rendering Times , or use Performance API , marking particular timestaps for events that are important for your business. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. What does it mean? First Input Delay ( FID ) < 100ms.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145