The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Providers such as AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack, Google Anthos, and VMware Cloud on AWS offer compatible private clouds that integrate seamlessly with established public cloud platforms — a key feature for constructing hybrid cloud systems. It should offer user-friendly operation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. How Bulldozer leverages Spark, Protobuf and KV DAL for moving the data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. There are a number of utilities and conventions on how to use this message when it is present in an RPC request. FieldMask is a protobuf message. Bella Ciao Protobuf FieldMask is a simple, yet powerful concept.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. When data is written to disk, MongoDB compresses it with a specified block compression method and then writes it to disk. provides higher compression rates.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Droplets. Monitoring Performance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

The next day Jack presented his Turing Award Lecture as the keynote for the event ( HPCwire has a good summary of the whole talk), and later in the the week he was on a panel discussion on “Reinventing HPC” where he repeated the point. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. The CSS file(s) that we host is provided by Cloud.typography.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

Compared to the most recent master version of libaom (AV1 reference software), SVT-AV1 is similar in compression efficiency and at the same time achieves significantly lower encoding latency on multi-core platforms when using its inherent parallelization capabilities. The unit tests are built on the Google Test framework.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms. For the purpose of this post, let's say that 500ms backend time is 'good enough'.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network latency. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. A sneak peek into Hydrogen’s online integrated development environment.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 WebP WebP is an image format developed by Google to ensure superior compression of photos.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Trusted Types. CSS Container Queries. inert Attribute.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., ICSE’19. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Regardless, I present the thinking behind them because it can provide teams with informed points of departure, and also because clarifying the ritual freakout taking place as INP begins to put a price on JavaScript externalities. Organisations had all learned the lessons of Google and FaceBook's adventures in Ajax.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" It is perhaps predictable that, instead of presenting a bulwark against stratification, technology outcomes have tracked society's growing inequality. " package.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency. The biggest drawback for AVIF at present is that it lacks uniform support across browsers. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains. AVIF Gotchas.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Muti-device challenges.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

latency, startup, mocking, etc.) Serverless presents a conceptually simpler path to deploying software for those in development roles with no need to manage servers and storage. customers who already like and use Azure or Google Cloud Platform are likely to find the same advantages hold with Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Presently we know it is far from easy to forecast the future – all of us have discovered this in 2020 through major ups and downs. Present Artificial Intelligence investments in North America alone are estimated to hit USD 6-7 billion. million Google Play Store applications, followed by 1.96 billion in 2019 to $40.74

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. Applying style to the images can be achieved with CSS.

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Website Social Media Media Design 104

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The paper presents results on TCP-H (which looks a bit like a toy compared to the real production queries, but is useful for comparison), as well as from some production-like queries. Five queries improve substantially on both latency and total compute hours. ICDE’16 (PowerDrill is a Google internal system).

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Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics associated with the real experiences of their users. Relatively few folks bring WPT traces to arguments.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. Each of these moments is experienced stochastically in our model, with the final moment presenting a previously un-hedged risk. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

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