The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. What constitutes music or speech?

Architecture 233

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 233

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Cache 127

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Now disk I/O and CPU capacity were no longer an issue.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145