The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. Run source code tests.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 261

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Without such rules, configuring your environments can result in chaos, with losses in flexibility, speed, and stability. Workflow environment variables section : These variables are both strings, such as project name, and the paths to SLI and SLO file within the repo and are made available to all the steps in the workflow.

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Software Software Open Source DevOps 214

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. First Contentful Paint. To this end, we can also look at FCP by device.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 122

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

With Dynatrace version 1.172, an updated of our metrics API endpoint (version 2) is now available. The latest version is based on our improved metrics framework, which provides: A logical tree structure for all available metric types. Globally unique metric keys that better integrate over multiple Dynatrace environments.

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Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 103

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Applying page or row compression (both online/offline) to the source before the affinitized copy (offline), to see if compressing the data first could speed up the destination. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. tblOriginal.

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Speed Processing Servers Storage 113

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

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Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: Infant characters as in my paper “ Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and aging readers — 2019 fourth edition.”. Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. Robert Hillier’s Sylexiad Serif Medium.

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Performance Design Testing Speed 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. 24 Ways (2019).

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Design Development Programming Website 110

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 120

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Here's some experimental approaches I could also explore: Disable tracesys/syscall_trace. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck?

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Blockchain Hardware Google Speed 46

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. km university campus. Throughput and latency.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Now, we're opening an infrastructure Region with three Availability Zones. Today, customers can connect to the AWS EU (Paris) Region via Telehouse Voltaire.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 87

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? You may be wondering why we need such a scale.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. The Image Processing feature is available on all Pull Zones. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature!

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Processing Cache Network Latency 13

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 97

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

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? Hard Reset.

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Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

2019-05-06T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-05-06T11:34:08+00:00. Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Andrea Verlicchi. The script is only 2.0

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 104

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. KB (30%) without losses.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch Mode Serial Execution.

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Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. Such features have lingered behind feature flags for years, never to be flagged on by default in Safari or even made available to competing iOS browsers. The most convincing argument in Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. Apple's Security Argument #.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. This can be beneficial if you are wanting to test more accurately at a specific speed. Validating Google AMP HTML Google AMP is an open source initiative to speed up the web using lightweight HTML pages.

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Google Website Network Media 85

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sure, developing a codebase multiple time was more expensive than the web's write-once-test-everywhere approach, but at least you got speed for the effort. Today's popular JS-based approaches are simply unsafe at any speed. It's not going well This is what I started warning about in 2019 , and more recently on this blog.

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 81

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Quantum computing is useful to speed up a relatively small number of very difficult computational problems that can’t be solved on classical computers. Yes, there have been some small quantum computers available; IBM has quantum computers available in the cloud , including a 5-qubit machine that anyone can try for free.

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Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. You’ll need to do the timing yourself using whatever toolset your backend platform makes available to you.

Servers 88

Servers Performance Metrics Database 88

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. This way they can know that there is always a minimum compute level available, and they can always automatically scale to a designated compute level. Conclusion.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Speed and Accuracy. Giving priority to mobile website testing does not mean that you have to perform testing on all ‘categories’ of mobile phones available in the market. Mobile Device Compatibility.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. With that said, many people assume that there are multiple resources available for compressing photos. Options such as JPEG 2000, WebP, and HEIF are all available and have experienced success in one form or another. AVIF version 1.0.0

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43