The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. Imagine this scene without the sound. Even taking away one part of the soundtrack?—?the

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. We needed to start thinking about how fast can we replicate to a synchronous secondary replica in terms of % of the speed of a standalone workload. As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps. Compared to other countries in the region, the connection speed has room to grow. Athens - Greece The POP in Athens brings better performance to Greece with a population of over 10 million people. Lagos - Nigeria Africa got its second POP!

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Latency Internet Internet Speed 110

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The good news is that there are hacks that can speed up the entire recovery process, although they all have their own quirky limitations. Patroni, for example, implements one such technique by copying the file named state , which is located in the data cluster’s subdirectory pg_repslot, over to the REPLICA’s data cluster in the same location.

Games 117

Games Open Source Tuning Servers 117

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Google 103

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017. Trend 1: The percentage of teams that do not automate deployment shrank from 26% in 2016 to 11% in 2017. Trend 4: More teams are enforcing full quality control (31% in 2017, up from 23% in 2016).

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Software Software Development Code 73

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We're burning our inheritance and polluting the ecosystem on shockingly thin, perniciously marketed claims of "speed" and "agility" and "better UX" that have not panned out at all. That is, what was the average device in 2016? As this series has emphasised in years past, Average Selling Price ( ASP ) is destiny.

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Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Among the many things Ilya observed after analyzing HTTP Archive data for desktop sites, when you have outliers that weigh in at 30MB+ and more than 90% of your pages are under 5MB, an "average page size" of 2227KB (back in 2016) doesn't mean much. Interesting to note the dip that took place, in terms of total KB, in 2016.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 85

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Attempts to compress PostgreSQL WAL at different levels have always been around since the beginning.

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house. We frequently position this issue as one around reaching a more global audience (and often, it is ), but it can also hit much closer to home. My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The second platform is a managed IoT cloud with customer-facing applications and data management, which went live in 2016. Across the Nordics, we work with Atomico, Creandum, EQT Ventures Nordic Makers, Northzone, and SUP46, in order to support the rapid growth of their portfolio companies.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! -R Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

C++ 124

C++ Servers Storage Speed 124

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. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

.” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first use of a GP Bandit for optimizing a WSC. Evaluation.

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

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. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83 According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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. As of 2016, there were just over 5.1 In terms of Internet speed, Finland ranks as one of the fastest countries in the world. penetration rate.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Nick Desaulniers

DECEMBER 31, 0001

2020 Apr 6 Off by Two 2019 May 12 f() vs f(void) in C vs C++ 2019 Jan 18 Finding Compiler Bugs With C-Reduce 2018 Oct 24 Booting a Custom Linux Kernel in QEMU and Debugging It With GDB 2018 Jun 2 Speeding Up Linux Kernel Builds With ccache 2017 Sep 5 GCC vs LLVM Q3 2017 Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts 2017 May 31 Running Clang-Tidy (..)

C++ 40

C++ Speed Development 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. KB for desktops and 902 KB for mobile devices from 2016 to 2021. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices. memcpy to LC.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This particular write concern prioritizes data longevity over reading speed. The files look something like this: <dbname> <collectionname> 2016-02-08T19-34-44.0.bson While it does offer improved durability guarantees, there may be some impact on read performance as reads typically occur from only one member by default.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

MachMetrics

MAY 26, 2021

On June 30th, 2021, our speed monitoring service will be retired. Speed tests will stop running, and all accounts will be closed. MachMetrics started out as a passion project, and while I worked hard to deliver robust and reliable speed monitoring, the industry is changing too fast for me to keep up. Every metric imaginable.

Speed 40

Speed Internet Internet Monitoring 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Google 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

While hardware such as intelligent SANs, Solid State Disk, and other advancements have helped speed things up, wasted space in index can translate to wasted space in the buffer pool as well as wasting more I/O. SQL Server Database Maintenance plans prior to SQL Server 2016 only allowed to rebuild or reorganize all indexes.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In time, these misapprehensions would become cursed articles of faith: CPUs get faster every year [ narrator: they do not ] Organisations can manage these complex stacks [ narrator: they cannot ] All of this was falsified by 2016 , but nobody wanted to turn on the house lights while the JS party was in full swing.

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. This speeds up the retrieval process and brings in performance improvements to your application. Microservices architecture.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 52

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Some prior art was brought to my attention by people who reviewed earlier drafts of this post; notably this 2021 post by the Splunk team and the following tweet by the NCC Group from 2016 (as well as a related PowerPoint presentation ): NCC Group Web Perf @NCCGroupWebperf Where are you on the #webperf maturity model?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ).

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The slightly newer Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 (Broadwell) series which was introduced in Q1 of 2016, increased that to 2400MHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. lanes for I/O connectivity.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Thankfully, this is somewhat easier than network speeds: more than half of American mobile users are on Android devices. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Rigor

JULY 17, 2019

By reducing the size of the HTML files used to build your webpage, you can speed up your site’s page load times and make the download less expensive (in terms of data usage and browser work) for your user. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019. REQUEST A FREE TRIAL.

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Speed Internet Internet Processing 40