The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021?

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT is used in sensitive data such as your video footages via CCTVs or your personal health data etc. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” We do this all the time, when we ask “what if?”

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis. Download today.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths. Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you specify the location?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Nick Desaulniers

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

First, please check out this excellent video on public key crypto: Hopefully that explains the gist of the technique, but what might it actually look like in code? High Performance Browser Networking book chapter TLS Handshake , Mozilla OpSec’s fantastic wiki , and this exellent Stack Exchange post. crypto module.

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C++ Servers Education Government 71

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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 then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103