The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. In this article, we cover a few key integrations that we provide for various layers of the Metaflow stack at Netflix, as illustrated above.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 228

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users. If the user is paid, the server returns the full article directly as HTML. Eric Burel.

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Cache Website Servers Energy 118

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., Author & founder of BangDB. Workload C: Read only.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this second article, I’ll go over some key technical highlights from the project. In the first article, I briefly discussed the technical stack that includes a React-based front-end framework, Next.js Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Design Media C++ Energy 98

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. The new WebPageTest website design. Unveiling the new WebPageTest UI — I absolutely love seeing WebPageTest’s design evolve and improve. This is way better.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 69

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 238

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will discuss a few of those techniques as well as some of the things I wish I had known earlier to help manage large Next.js Note : While this article is specific to Next.js, some of the points will also work for a wide variety of front-end applications. applications. Jump to table of contents ?. application.

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Cache Code Testing Design 144

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! The change of design. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 109

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. We refer the reader to our previous blog article for details. This new operation is marked to be in STARTED state.

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Media Latency Architecture Database 269

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this article, we’re going to learn how to handle real-time updates on the client-side using GraphQL. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation.

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Cache Servers Code Transportation 118

Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. We all love building greenfield projects. Those are…not so fun.

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Systems Cache Strategy Database 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 126

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

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Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications effectively, this article will show you how to quickly scale your applications, and how to work with Nx. Optimizing Next.js Optimizing Next.js

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Cache Servers Code Testing 112

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. There are a handful of different entry subtypes but, for the scope of this article, we will be concerned with the PerformanceResourceTiming and PerformanceNavigationTiming subtypes. More after jump!

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. This article is getting way, way more forensic than I intended. We’re also able to adopt a more deliberate caching strategy, only cache busting the files that need it and leaving the rest untouched. This is on purpose.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Percona Community

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Overview In this article, I look at how poorly designed sharding systems and replication systems in PostgreSQL affect query performance in high volume situations, and how to ensure data consistency across many servers.

Performance 52

Performance Cache Traffic Database 52

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. This article lays out the ideas and discussions shared at the workshop.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. This series of articles shows you how to derive an easy-to-use, robust, efficient API to serve users on the web or on mobile devices. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP.

Servers 83

Servers Cache Mobile Architecture 83

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. Another highly beneficial caching method is key-value caching.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 4, 2018

In this series of posts on RESTful API design, we started from the spec of a bike rental application and we're moving towards a fully functional API design. In the first article , we talked about how to identify the URL and HTTP method pairs we would need to implement the server-side API for the application.

Media 75

Media Cache Servers Design 75

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In order to design, operate, and measure these networks, we must collect metrics and state data from the thousands of devices that compose them. This article goes over some background on the project, why we created it, and how you can use it to monitor your own network.

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Open Source Network Transportation Cache 187

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Check out this article by Eric Bailey for some ideas. For this article, we’re going to take a deeper dive into one particular area. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. A selection of well-designed testimonials could be a better alternative. Two embeds.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 104

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Schema design: Evaluating the database schema design and making adjustments such as partitioning large tables, eliminating redundant data, and denormalizing tables for frequently accessed information can improve performance. This parameter sets how much dedicated memory will be used by PostgreSQL for the cache.

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Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. Many headless CMSes cache content retrieved via RESTful or GraphQL APIs. Look out for: Caching of images and content via CDN. Operating expense.

Cache 144

Cache Website Mobile Google 144

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. Thanks to the awesome caching plugins available for WordPress will make your site much faster and make your pages feel lightweight when configured correctly.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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