The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 260

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones. They rely on the AWS Cloud for their entire infrastructure and use almost every AWS service available.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

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.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

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Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 27, 2018

Pinterest serves over 200 million global monthly active users and an infrastructure that serves over 1 millions request per second. Around 2016, Pinterest migrated from Backbone to React. They saw a 20% improvement in performance and 10-20% improvement in engagement.

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Metrics Traffic Testing Strategy 49

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. bn in 2016. You don’t want to pay for extra infrastructure. The infrastructure you use can be scaled up and down according to your needs. Some stats to prove that (according to Statista here and here ): 1. Worldwide mobile app revenue in 2019 stood at 462 bn USD.

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Testing Mobile Internet Internet 52