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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

We use AES Galois/Counter Mode, as it also provides good performance and high throughput. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. would bring us better security from the analysis of its protocol composition, but we did not know how it would perform in the context of streaming.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

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How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Building a culture of performance.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.