The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources).

Cache 167

Cache Design Testing Development 167

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system. The default size is 128 Kbytes, and people shouldn't be tuning below 8 Kbytes. I worked on this code back at Sun. There were new to me.

Cache 141

Cache Cloud Java Code 141

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

As for Romania, it covers an area of over 238,000 square kilometers and as of 2017 had a population of almost 20 million. In 2017, the average speed was 21.33Mb/s ranking them 18th in the world. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83 million people. million Romanian eCommerce users who spend an average of $237.38

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. Here is a summary of the queries: Simple queries: select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'. The second and third run used the cached data.

Cache 48

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 48