The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. We showcase our case studies, open-source tools in benchmarking, and how we ensure that AWS cloud services are serving our needs without compromising on tail latencies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. We showcase our case studies, open-source tools in benchmarking, and how we ensure that AWS cloud services are serving our needs without compromising on tail latencies.

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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. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

The easiest way to induce failover is to run the rs.stepDown() command: RS-example-0:PRIMARY> rs.stepDown() 2019-04-18T19:44:42.257+0530 E QUERY [thread1] Error: error doing query: failed: network error while attempting to run command 'replSetStepDown' on host 'SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017' 27017 (sg-example-17026.servers.mongodirector.com:27017,

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Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

In one week’s time, thousands of IT and business professionals will descend on London for the latest iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 (June 25-27 – InterContinental O2, London, UK). Here are four tips to get the most out of DOES London 2019: Tip #1 – Develop a plan of attack. The countdown is on.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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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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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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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. If this setting is enabled our network will completely ignore the query string. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature!

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

This week we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing ( SoCC ). If the edit creates a new, unlogged network request, then the replay framework must inject new network events into the log. candidate bug-fixes) during replay.

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Programming Servers Network Latency 86

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. Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This typically happens once per server and takes up valuable time — especially if the server is very distant from the browser and network latency is high. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Drew McLellan.

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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. The next closest active POP location to Bucharest was Istanbul which was still almost 900km away; this distance adds up in terms of latency. What’s Next?

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

Today we’re jumping from HotOS topics of 2019, to hot topics of 1977! In such a situation I’d expect to see unusually high latencies, but normal throughput). The Great Dorset Steam Fair ’), which are a bit like a distributed denial of service attack on the road network as lots of very slow steam engines all converge on a given point.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. Image Compression Just how much of a website is made up of images? KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019.

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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Google 52

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. By adding the need for additional JavaScript resources to your page, you increase the latency caused by the need to first download the webpage and then parse and execute the JavaScript before the browser can execute the redirect.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Network: Node.js 12.9.0 – August 20, 2019; 16.8.6 – May 6, 2019. Scalability: Applications developed with Node.js can be scaled vertically and horizontally to improve their performance. supports an open-source community.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 A pipeline breaker occurs when the output of one operator must be materialized to disk or transferred over the network, as opposed to being directly communicated from operator to operator via CPU cache, or, in the worst case, via RAM. Experimental results.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. Now we’d use no-store.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Since its release in 2019, the support for AVIF has increased considerably.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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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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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Are you aware that the scale of the app testing industry in 2019 was over USD$ 40 billion? In 2019, we had previously projected the demand for IoT research at $781.96billion. 38% of organisations were expected to introduce machine-learning initiatives in 2019, according to the Capgemini World Efficiency survey. billion in 2016.

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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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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. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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