The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape. I do not miss the days of the monthly planned server shutdown for vendor hardware maintenance from the days of yore. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

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Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Establish service-level objectives (SLOs).

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 173

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As DevSecOps practices gather steam in 2022, there are several concurrent technology trends that will likely further DevSecOps adoption. IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). and 2.14.1.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 254

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 173

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is open source, and there are a number of projects that make it easy to work with outside of the AWS environment too, including Weave Firekube (disclaimer: Accel is an investor in Weaveworks). for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces). Approaches to isolation.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The company has used AWS to build an IT innovation zone, based upon open source products, which is being used to launch new innovations for customers like E-Mobility and E-thermostat products with a very fast time-to-market. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology. Lighthouse is an open source project run by a dedicated team from Google Chrome. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. PageSpeed 5.0

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. high-color image raster. floppy/CD/DVD).

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. But 18% already have applications in production.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. For a telecom company, the ability to monitor network congestion and failures is part of their core value proposition. A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? Do you think those evolutions would have happened with a structural separation in place?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Cloud computing?

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Machine learning is one such transformational technology that is top of mind not only for CIOs and CEOs, but also developers and data scientists.

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Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159