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.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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].

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks.

Software 256

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 256

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Session replay is a real user monitoring technology that creates video-like recordings — or snapshots — of how users navigate and interact with a company’s website or mobile application. Traffic control to choose the percentage of recorded visitor sessions. Financial data. The ability to apply masking rules during replay.

Analytics 185

Analytics Website Mobile Internet 185

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.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

Internet 126

Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Cloud enables video analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? What about UHD video? The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app. The bulk of this latency comes from on-device frame processing, not network transmission delay. (The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence, it became important to supplement our release decisions with strong evidence received from the field during the update process. An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. Our team was formed to mine health signals from the field to quickly evaluate new versions of the client applications.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Unlike other popular programming languages such as C or Pearl, PHP pages have HTML with embedded code with some start and end processing instructions that allow you to jump directly into and out of PHP mode. Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

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.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

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?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

These insightful videos will provide you with information from industry insiders that you can use to plan for upcoming events, start conversations, and make an impact in your own organization. To start the process of thinking about holiday readiness, he recommends that questions be asked such as, “How many people are we sending out to?

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. The other news is that it looks like there’s intent to take the first frame of a video as the LCP candidate if no poster is present. However, if you build your LCP candidate with JS, the process is much, much more drawn out. Set appropriate alarms.

Virtualization 330

Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. This user-space process is a Titus subsystem called titus-isolate which works as follows.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. How much does all of this cost?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. Elliot talked about the three key components?—?a)

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. “1 out of 5 online shoppers will abandon their cart because the transaction process was too slow.” Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement. Summing up.

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. Your short-term memory can store information for 10-15 seconds – at most – just enough time for your working memory to process, manipulate, and control it.

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. Elliot talked about the three key components?—?a)

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Check out this video , where Mathias Biilmann talks about his realization that bringing the Smashing Magazine website over from WordPress to a static site using the JAMstack and Netlify hosting would make it load around 6 times faster! Some of the better providers even do this for you, making it a seamless process. Source: CloudCannon.

Website 52

Website Speed Traffic Database 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

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. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. Integrating your budgets with your CI process is like having your security cameras trigger your guards to rush in and stop the bad guys.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Where Does SEO Belong In Your Web Design Process? ” It is a huge industry, with its own publications, thought leaders, podcasts, video series, and more. Communicate the value of SEO, and don’t do it by lecturing. Win, win, win.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. Speeding up the registration process is yet another crucial UX principle.

Education 85

Education Website Google Design 85

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. When LogRocket detects a bug, it automatically creates a video capturing exactly what users see on their screens. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing!

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Enhanced business operations.

Strategy 170

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 170

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Developing, deploying, and monitoring the release of native mobile apps is not an easy process. Mobile DevOps practitioners provide streamlined collaboration between product managers, developers, and operations staff to ensure a continuous workflow throughout the release process.

Mobile 130

Mobile DevOps Monitoring Traffic 130

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

The performance requirements for telco networks are staggering – the ability to process millions of transactions per second, the ability to manage billions of events per day, and the ability to manage tens of millions of devices simultaneously – and to do so without any perceptible downtime. Watch the Video of our Telco Expert.

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40