The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Cosmos As a response, in 2018 the CIS and ET teams started developing the next-generation platform, Cosmos. For the streaming use case, the generated videos are deployed to our content delivery network (CDN) for Netflix members to consume. The platform that had once served us well was now becoming a drag on development.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

With Fargate, you don't need to stand up a control plane, choose the right instance type, or configure all the other components of your application stack like networking, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, security groups, permissions, or secrets management. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In 2018, we launched the first Pop-Up Loft in Stockholm, offering a co-working space and access to technology and business experts to support the growth of Nordic organizations. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. flights, allowing the airline to expand twelvefold to cope with the spike in traffic that it experienced at the time.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). John Stevens. 2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

ISRG subsequently established its own root trust anchor which was accepted into all major browser and platform root programs as of August 2018. Today, ISRG has more diverse funding sources; in 2018 it received 83% of its funding from corporate sponsors, 14% from grants and major gifts, and 3% from individual giving. The ACME protocol.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers that is placed in different locations across the globe. While slow websites do not go down well with the users, in order to improve website traffic, security is also an important factor. This could result in a loss in site traffic. million certificates.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 to $138.46.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing!

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

While the Speed Update won’t be in effect until July 2018, there are steps that companies can take now to make sure they are not penalized. Google won’t notify you if your ranking is dinged by mobile speed, but you will see the impact in your Google Search Console and your traffic. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

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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.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. This change alone brought us around 3–4 Lighthouse score points across the board.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here multiple types of mechanical and digital objects are provided unique IDs and are given the ability to transfer data on the network without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. IoT or Internet of Things is an example of that.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

showcase web page that also has enough traffic to appear in the data set and which still use Next: [9] Mobile Core Web Vitals statistics for Next.js sites from Vercel's showcase , as well as the fraction of mobile traffic to each site. This is why I continue to track the mobile device and network situation.

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