The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production assets operations are performed in parallel with older data reprocessing without any service downtime. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Instead we use Elasticsearch to search those assets which are more performant.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Keep reading to find out: How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO? How can you track performance for SEO? How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Performance has had an impact on SEO long before Web Vitals came along.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

RUM: Performance heat maps. Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. All performance recommendations are badged, so you can see which Core Web Vitals you're improving when you fix performance issues.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In that time, we've seen people's interest in front-end web performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? Application performance. What about UHD video? SIGCOMM’20. The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. Retrospectives.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. You can stop such practices now and focus on your specific domain to get more traffic and leads. of all clicks.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. ” @mjpt777 : "Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50 times speedup in performance". Marie Hicks : The dynamic continues to this day.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. A lenient trace data sampling policy generates a large number of traces in each service container and can lead to degraded performance of streaming services as more CPU, memory, and network resources are consumed by the tracer library.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Find Your Performance Baseline.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data we get from real user monitoring (RUM) is extremely useful when trying to get a grasp on performance. Not only does it serve as the source of truth for your most important budgets and KPIs, it help us understand that performance is a broad distribution that encompasses many different cohorts of users. Investigate anomalies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

This allows local councils to keep certain streets well lit, to accommodate high foot traffic, bring on lighting during adverse weather, when ambient light dims to a dangerous level, or even turn lighting down, for example in an industrial estate, where there are no people. Cloud enables video analytics.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

We heard from customers and the market that there was a need for more in-depth visibility into desktop applications and how they perform. It is designed to widen the reach of application monitoring capabilities beyond web and HTTP traffic. DAC allows you to interface with any application, video, button, image, etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Linux to the rescue?

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InfoQ

MARCH 24, 2020

Ryan Landry, the senior director for TechOps at Fastly, has shared how network automation enables them to manage traffic peaks during popular live-streamed events such as the Super Bowl LIV. By Helen Beal.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Consumers will leave you for slow or intermittent performance because there are other content options.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. ” Look put these stats on some numbers: Effect on Sale: 79% of customers who report dissatisfaction with website performance are less likely to buy from that same site again. Because of nobody like a slow website.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Client Applications We deal with two classes of client application updates.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Real Engineering has created a fascinating video that explains the impact the project may have on internet speed as well as financial and economic implications. The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You may include images and videos in your theme. You should create a separate demo page for each feature in which your plug-in and theme are present and link them with each other by creating video and text overviews. So if you want subscribers, traffic, and revenue from your website then you should take your WordPress website fast.

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