The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. are you logged in? what plan do you have?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Notebooks] is purposely built to focus on data analytics,” Zahrer said. “We

Analytics 206

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 206

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This is an attempt to fill in missing data for those pages that don’t get enough traffic to have meaningful user experience data. Running it through web performance tools like Lighthouse and WebPageTest showed that — even on slower network speeds. One thing I wanted to look at was the global distribution of the traffic.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. Netflix Conductor is maintained by the Media Workflow Infrastructure team.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our growth team advertises on social media platforms and other websites to share news about upcoming titles and new product features, with the ultimate goal of growing the number of Netflix members worldwide. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. What’s the tradeoff of using those?

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. Instead, Fruit Co. publishes a paltry set of options that carry an unmistakable odour of first-party app requirements.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ). Planning, planning, planning.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 More customer Engagement : Chatbots communicate instantaneously with your website visitors and social media followers. times more and achieve a monthly amount of 226 EB in 2026. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Mobile Friendliness Testing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Setting up CI/CD : Although developers could come up with their own build and deployment pipelines, chances are that they are relying on some infrastructure provided by another team (eg an “infra” team). Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

With a headless CMS, you can make changes to your frontend without having any impact on the back-end infrastructure, hence saving yourself time and resources, which makes it much better. They give you the hassle of managing back-end infrastructures, setting up the presentation component of your site, app. Headless CMS Cons.

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Optimizing Media Queries. For improved maintainability, modularity, and code structure, we usually write the same media query expressions for multiple CSS components.

Media 108

Media Performance Cache Strategy 108