The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

By simulating user interactions and running tests from various locations worldwide, synthetic monitoring provides a comprehensive view of application performance and availability. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period. Before a crisis.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Real user monitoring limitations. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

The ideal end user experience is friction-free: users can access available and functional applications how, when, and where they want. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. Dynatrace news. DEM in action.

Mobile 242

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 242

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re expanding to all the availability zones that are provided by your cloud regions. Dynatrace news. So what does this mean for me? What’s next .

Scalability 29

Scalability Traffic Monitoring Benchmarking 29

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

During the holiday season, an e-commerce platform anticipating a traffic surge could use preventive observability to predict slowdowns or overloads, proactively scale resources, optimize performance, and balance cloud costs. The resurgence of AIOps will redefine industry benchmarks for efficiency and resilience.

Energy 241

Energy Logistics Healthcare Retail 241

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Par t of the appeal of Python is that there is a vast array of libraries available for it; when these are written in C, they can go a long way to alleviating Python’s performance problems. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

C++ 109

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 109

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. Anyhow, we are here to talk about Proxies. MySQL Router was never in the game.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. In addition, distributed data is a key factor in high availability.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads. High data availability is achieved. Scalable reads across multiple instances are possible.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. and the overall size will determine the amount of temporary storage available. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. Large preview ). Video Size (Pixels).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. The results – including detailed performance optimization recommendations – are available in your test details. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. RUM update: Page labels.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?” Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Synthetic monitoring is one of the best ways to detect outages or availability issues since it actively tests your site from the outside. Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. With a Synthetic product, benchmarking a competitor’s site is as easy as testing your own site…you simply provide a URL.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Testing 59

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Global Ground-Truth. 400Kbps transfer.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. And in the Indian market, the numbers are higher with Android users at 74.11%, reports Statcounter. .

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. The RDS automated backup and PITR capabilities protect against data loss and system failures, ensuring high availability and performance while simplifying backup management for developers and DBAs.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. CPU profile Understanding a CPU time should be easy by comparing CPU flame graphs. The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52