The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. ” Java.

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Programming Java Google C++ 131

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

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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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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests.

Website Performance 75

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 75

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability. If so, what are the legal liabilities?

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. billion devices. Device Infrastructure. Automated Testing. CI/CD Integration.

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Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level?

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Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In 2019, YouTube had to settle with the FTC for a $170 million fine for selling ads targeting children. The concept of Zero Trust Networks speaks to this problem. So far, technology has been great at intermediating people for coordination through systems like text messaging, social networks, and collaborative documents.

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Google Games Technology Technology 122

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

2019-02-05T13:00:00+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.

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Performance Energy Operating System Code 81

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

There’s no denying that the Web of Things community has gone crazy over matter since its release late in 2019. Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. This action may prevent hackers from gaining access to the network and taking it over.

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Wireless Development IoT Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. release even includes some support for deep learning.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 107

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Servers Metrics 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 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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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145