The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

for streaming traffic. the server signs the entire handshake including the cipher suite negotiation and thus prevents the attacker from downgrading the cipher suite. At the time of writing this article, the Internet is experiencing higher than usual traffic and congestion. Now we support TLS 1.3 What is TLS?

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. In production deployments, network load, partition, and other such issues delay the detection of unavailability of the primary server, thus, prolonging your failover time. Configuring the Network Timeout Values.

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Testing Network Database Servers 55

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. In Redis, we have strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes, which we are going to cover in this article. Data Structures in Redis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

message IdempotencyToken ( Timestamp generation_time, String token ) At Netflix, client-generated monotonic tokens are preferred due to their reliability, especially in environments where network delays could impact server-side token generation. While processing this request, the server retrieves data from the backing store.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. So how can teams start implementing SLOs?

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. How Can I See RTT Information?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. To demonstrate how that can work, we’ve chosen a pristine web application without any observability and are going to make it observable step-by-step during the next few chapters of this article.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. In this step, a pipeline picks our candidate change, deploys the service, makes it publicly discoverable, and redirects a small percentage of production traffic to this new service. The context around why the Node.js Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs. I highly recommend checking out these articles. For this article, I primarily rely on insights gained from analyzing data presented using the Core Web Vitals Technology Report.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Full-stack OneAgent for Z/Linux is derived from the implementation of OneAgent for Linux on x86 and x64 platforms, and so is a fully qualified citizen of the OneAgent family with only a few differences mentioned later in this article. running on the 64-bit OS/390x platform. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. Conclusion.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

In particular, the Times argues that AI-generated summaries of news articles are a substitute for the original articles and damage its business. As The New York Times article referenced at the start of this piece notes, “The most prized data, A.I. They want to get paid for their work and preserve their existing business.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This article provides instructions on how to fortify your RabbitMQ setup. Authentication Mechanisms in RabbitMQ RabbitMQ provides several authentication mechanisms to ensure the security of user-server connections, such as using a combination of username and password or employing X.509 509 certificates, and OAuth 2.0, 509 certificates.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? Where do you store?

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. What makes React unique is that it can be rendered either server or client side. Some teams will create a prototype in React and then switch to Preact for production servers.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

In this article, we will explain Redis sharding, explore its pros and cons, and how to apply it. It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. How Does Redis Sharding Work? Visualize it as a relay race.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. We won't go into detail in this article. There's no change required on the origin server.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. The POC Why this POC?

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 128

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. key file were created successfully: $ ls -al server.* -rw-rw-r--

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

This article expands on the most commonly used RabbitMQ use cases, from microservices to real-time notifications and IoT. They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. Wondering where RabbitMQ fits into your architecture?

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IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There are two images sitting on a server, a large one and a small one. Rather than a file (like an image) needing to travel across the world, it comes from a server much geographically closer on a server designed for that job. Website traffic. Imagine images. Imagine the performance implications of that. The large one.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

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)). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. HTTP/3 performance features.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. It plays a critical role by assigning tasks, which trims down the delivery times for web application servers and enhances overall productivity.

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IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article. Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

Full-stack OneAgent for Z/Linux is derived from the implementation of OneAgent for Linux on x86 and x64 platforms, and so is a fully qualified citizen of the OneAgent family with only a few differences mentioned later in this article. running on the 64-bit OS/390x platform. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution.

Availability 26

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 26

Scalegrid

JUNE 21, 2024

In the article, we will explore the implications of MongoDB’s end-of-life scenario and what it entails and guide you in preparing for this phase. outlines this progression for MongoDB Server and MongoDB Enterprise from initial release to retirement. MongoDB Server Lifecycle Schedule Release Release Date End of Life Date MongoDB 2.6

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side. Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users. Jamstack general service architecture ( Large preview ). Number of Pages. Number of Assets. Build time.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 132

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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