The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The box was a new Android TV device with 4k playback, based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 5.0, i.e. video would play for a very short time, then pause, then start again, then pause. They supplied a video and it looked terrible. aka “Lollipop”. In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

Engineering 352

Engineering Code Hardware Open Source 352

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter. A day later he came back to me as he just built, and since then also open sourced, the Dynatrace Backend Listener for JMeter ! If you want to replicate Christians work – here are the software and hardware specs: Hardware.

Innovation 158

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 158

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There are no videos of the talks, so I tend to be a bit more experimental and try out new content at GlueCon. If you haven’t seen it in action, you should watch the latest video by @AIDRIVR. It’s big enough to be interesting but not too big (this year had fewer attendees than some in the past).

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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). no support for USB, video, and audio devices). virtio is used for network and block devices.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 110

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. The open, royalty-free codec AV1 has been delivered instead. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. getUserMedia().

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

It is safe, fast, compatible, open-source, and easy to learn. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. present on the device without undergoing any application crash or hanging.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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. 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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). Huge reach, plus the licensing of On2's video codecs , made Flash the default video delivery mechanism for many years. a lab's worth of sensors , including: cameras (both still and video). In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Dynatrace

JUNE 3, 2019

As the UFO is an Open Hardware & Open Source project , we’ve had people create their own UFOs in order to visualize stage or progress within their organization. Check out these two awesome videos: Dynatrace UFO DevOps Visualization & Dynatrace UFO controlled by a Mobile App.

Hardware 32

Hardware DevOps Open Source Mobile 32

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Sentry Sentry is a bit different from the other error tracking tools in that it is open source. If you are a hobbyist you can use Sentry completely free.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group.

Open Source 107

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open source database observability, monitoring, and management tool that provides actionable performance data for MongoDB variants, including Percona Server for MongoDB, MongoDB Community, and MongoDB Enterprise. Download today.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. To limit Cumulative Layout Shift being caused by images without dimensions, include width and height size attributes on your images and video elements. By reducing main-thread CPU usage, FID can also be reduced. Lighthouse. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 98

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Using the framework we have open sourced, AVIF compression efficiency can be seen at work and compared against a whole range of image codecs that came before it. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264,

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. Secondly, we can ask whether this also works for other use cases besides large file downloads and live video conferencing and streaming.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105