The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How We Got Here Netflix started as a website that allowed members to manage their DVD queue. This website was later enhanced with the capability to stream content. Over time, devices increased in capability and functions that were once only accessible on the website became accessible through streaming devices.

Architecture 221

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions. Instead, when working with websites, applications, or services, you may need both.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management. Event-driven automation Event-driven automation represents a significant leap forward. But it doesn’t stop there.

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DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 225

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What As the website grows, the maintenance of static content can become more cumbersome and require robust content management practices.‍What

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. 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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

To understand the importance of API monitoring, consider a website that provides weather information. However, if you want to trigger an alert based on an outlier, such as a sudden spike in latency in one region or for a single customer, then sampling may not provide the alerting system with the data it needs to perform its job.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 183

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience. So why use lab data at all?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For example, if the SLA for a website is 99.95% uptime, its corresponding SLO could be 99.95% availability of the login services. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%. For example, an objective for system availability can be: 90% – one 9. What are error budgets? How SLOs work. 99% – two 9s.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

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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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM.

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Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Developers don’t have to put in additional time to fine-tuning the system, or rely on other teams for support, as it’s done automatically with the cloud provider. However, when the time comes for resources to be requested, there can be latency in the time it takes to for that code to start back up. Focus on Application Development.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 101

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids. Maybe just changing the code according to browsers and operating systems.

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Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 29, 2020

Cross-department application monitoring for bottleneck and latency. Some of them don’t really need 24/7 monitoring, although a regular system check is necessary, while some of them will need continuous monitoring, for example, like your IT help desk. Monitor third-party APIs and External Websites. Server Monitoring.

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Monitoring Strategy Infrastructure Latency 75

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is located in the eastern part of the United States, providing customers with a second isolated Region in which to run mission-critical workloads with lower latency and high availability. System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3. Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security.

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AWS Healthcare Cloud Government 117

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. It is understood that no system is 100 percent reliable.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. And when websites stop being where most of the information and services are, who will hire web developers?

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath. Wrapping Up.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. DNS lookup.

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. At the end of the day, there are three basic ways we can increase capacity: Increasing the number of units in a system (subject to Amdahl’s law ). IDS/IPS requirements.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. It allows you to quickly audit a website in a number of key areas which together can form a measure of its overall quality.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

For example, image resizing, automatic polyfilling of scripts on the CDN, etc — these systems can have many limits and reasons for why they might not be able to create or deliver a variation. Let’s assume all website images return this Server-Timing header structure. Combining Server-Timing with Service Workers.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. He has said, “By moving a large part of our IT system from our old IBM mainframe to AWS, we have adopted a cloud first strategy, boosting our power of innovation.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Particular Software

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Backed by Cosmos DB, a fully managed, globally distributed, elastically scaled, pay-as-you-go service, your NServiceBus-based systems can benefit from guaranteed single-digit-millisecond latency with 99.999% availability. This way you can enjoy stronger transactional guarantees than are possible with Azure Storage Persistence.

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