The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. The arrival of HDR-VMAF allowed us to create HDR streams with DO applied, i.e., HDR-DO encodes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As the number of 4K titles in our catalog continues to grow and more devices support the premium features, we expect these video streams to have an increasing impact on our members and the network. The fixed-bitrate ladder starts at 560 kbps which may be too high for some cellular networks. shot-optimized encoding and 4K VMAF model ?—?and

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Let’s use that instead of a standard JPG.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. But over time, something went very wrong.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Well, not so fast. That’s how you can convince your boss.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period. Developer Labs, Logging and Metrics We have been continually improving logging and metrics, and revamped the documentation to reflect the latest state of Conductor.

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Apica

JULY 18, 2022

2022 has already see a significant uptick in our media coverage as more and more people discover the unique capabilities of our products. The industry is shifting from basic performance metrics to focusing on the business outcomes and the user experience. Here’s what we’ve achieved this year so far, only halfway through.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have listened closely to our treasured partner network to design a simplified program tailored to help you seamlessly incorporate Flow Metrics into your business practice. Measuring and Proving your Value: Use Flow Metrics to demonstrate client gains and the value of your services. Co-Marketing.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

O’Reilly Media Podcast: JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud, on problem solving with containers and Kubernetes, and how developers can get started. In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, I talk with JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud. Containers, microservices, and Kubernetes provide such assurance.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. Digging A Little Deeper Into The Metrics.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. I used my expertise to educate people about metrics,” says Gringaus.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2019

Ten years ago the network was the biggest problem when it came to making websites fast. This happened because networks got faster while JavaScript moved in the other direction growing 3x in size in the last six years. Here's a figure to help visualize these metrics. It's not possible to focus on one metric.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This additional adaptation step improves performance by 15–25% on video retrieval tasks (given a text prompt), depending on the starting model used and metric evaluated. Video embeddings are precomputed on the shot level, stored in our media feature store , and replicated to an elastic search cluster for real-time nearest neighbor queries.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. High Performance Browser Networking. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Three steps in exploratory data analytics: Discover, browse, explore Grail captures heterogeneous data from across the network in one place while retaining its context and semantic details, which eliminates the limitations of traditional databases. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected. This includes not only infrastructure connections but also the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. These are not only numerous but also dynamic.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. Better tooling and metrics standardization. In other words, the field lacked standardization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

However, in some cases, an incident will become known through a support ticket, a phone call, or even social media, which is never good news when issues are posted publicly for all to see. OpsGenie also provides features like reporting and analytics so teams can view and track incident response metrics and efficiencies.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte. Bounce Rate.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Network Signals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How fast should I be?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. We had a shared metrics daemon on the machine that reached in and polled metrics from the container. In addition to that, we could use our standard metrics daemons on the host.

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Metrics – Thick as Pea Soup. In the early days of performance monitoring, there were far fewer metrics than we have today.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Optimizing Media Queries. When we write media queries in CSS, especially when using multiple files (PostCSS or Sass), we usually don’t nest the code under a single media query for an entire project. products-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); grid-gap: 16px; } @media (min-width: 768px) {.products-grid

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9 Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. webcam access via getUserMedia() or the Media Session API ) may attend deceptively small expansions in exposed API surface. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Knowing how that control happens, and how it fails, will help us to understand the breakdown of social media. Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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