All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

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. However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average).

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. Cosmos is a computing platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Twitter serves as a vital communication channel for individuals, businesses, and even public figures, the outage attracted widespread attention and negative feedback on social media and in the news.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Twitter serves as a vital communication channel for individuals, businesses, and even public figures, the outage attracted widespread attention and negative feedback on social media and in the news.

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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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Most of the business views created on top of the Iceberg tables can tolerate a few minutes of latency. Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill. Dehghani, Zhamak.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

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Games Retail Latency Education 112

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

You should expect one-time implementation cost (depending CMS and business requirements it can cost 200,000 USD to 3M USD) and yearly hosting infrastructure cost (proportional to load and traffic but typically 30,000 USD - 300,000 USD per year). Gone the days when you required to have big fat-contract with Akamai.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104