The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. There is an additional /mnt/storage network drive mount that is available for high latency, large storage purposes. See details below.

Storage 145

Storage Latency Operating System Network 145

KeyCDN

JUNE 16, 2021

We're excited to announce that we've launched a new point of presence to help further supercharge our network's content delivery speeds. As our network continues to grow, our customers will continue to experience faster load times globally. Our newest point of presence has been launched in Denver ! What's next?

Tuning 52

Tuning Cache Network Speed 52

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler.

Code 109

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 109

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. For some of the tests on the ScaleGrid deployment, MySQL configuration binlog_group_commit_sync_delay is tuned so that the slave replication lag does not go beyond 30s.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. SG4 (Networking) continued working on updating the networking proposal for std::execution senders and receivers. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. High Performance Browser Networking. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Without having network visibility, it’s not possible to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. USD each online annually. USD each online annually.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. It also offers 9 levels of compression, so that the amount of compression and the time it takes to compress can be fine-tuned. Let us know what page speed benefits you notice after implementing HTTP compression!

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

The Morning Paper

MARCH 12, 2020

To run uninterrupted a service not only depends on correct code, but also on correct network and security configuration, and suitable deployment specification. The models for a given repository are fine-tuned on a daily basis. CloudCanary found 30+ network risk groups, including ToR/aggregation switches, and shared fiber.

Network 109

Network Azure Engineering Tuning 109

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. In terms of Internet speed, Finland ranks as one of the fastest countries in the world. This puts them in 6th place for fastest connection speeds.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. For now, I’m usually sat with a coffee, some tunes on, and an old-school pen and paper making notes. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 3, 2018

As much as we hear about improvements to mobile networks and CPUs, they're not on par with desktop. Stay tuned for more posts that explore how to make JavaScript faster so it's no longer the longest pole in the tent (or at least shorten the pole). Related posts: Ouch, your JavaScript hurts!

Metrics 58

Metrics Mobile Tuning Network 58

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stay tuned for lots of articles on metaprogramming, applications, useful Raku modules, programming techniques, guides on how to work with Raku inside containers, and even how to migrate from good ol’ Perl. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Jump to table of contents ?.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

Tuning 126

Tuning Cache Storage Database 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Stay tuned! TikTok has more than 768 million global users who regularly use the app for social networking. Go for lazy loading for images to improve the page speed. Ensure that you monitor core web vitals and page speed insights to evaluate your website performance and speed.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 218

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 218

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. Who wouldn’t like to avoid the infamous missing column index?

Metrics 166

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Log analysis can reveal potential bottlenecks and inefficient configurations so teams can fine-tune system performance. Optimized system performance. Increased collaboration.

Analytics 202

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 202

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. Stay tuned!!

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service. What’s next?

Java 226

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 226

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. Doing so has the added advantage of being able to design and tune the enhancement to suit the requirements of packager and our other encoding applications. The overall ProRes video processing speed is increased from 50GB/Hour to 300GB/Hour.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Kubernetes was architected to allow for additional technologies and services to assist in speed, scalability and reducing the overall complexity which can arise from a Microservices environment. Automatic configuration of application network. Automatic rollout/rollback of containers. Automatic service distribution.

Monitoring 214

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 214

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. And, as before, you can always use private Synthetic locations that are located within your network infrastructure to measure complex internal applications and APIs.

Monitoring 252

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . Stay tuned – this is only the start. Dynatrace news.

Cloud 284

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 284

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You’ll try this with a few other algorithms, and their respective tuning parameters–maybe even break out TensorFlow to build a custom neural net along the way–and the winning model will be the one that heads to production. The second is the experienced ML professional who really knows how to build and tune models.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

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. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. End Users may want better caching of resources to speed up browsing.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82