The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Like most IT professionals, Harikrishnan and the Parker team’s cybersecurity engineer Tom Hood have multiple requirements to manage, from implementing digital transformation and ensuring operational efficiency to securing IT systems. What device are they using over what type of network? Efficiency. Accessibility.

Benchmarking 243

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. As such, it’s quite often a network-shared mount point that multiple hosts use to store third party software and libraries. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 246

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

Together, these technologies enable organizations to maintain real-time visibility and control, swiftly mitigating the impact of incidents and efficiently restoring critical services. It allows users to chain commands together to filter, manipulate, and analyze data efficiently. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. However, having a scalable stream processing platform doesn’t help much if you can’t store data in a cost efficient manner.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

The DORA five pillars and implications for application security and reliability The DORA regulation establishes uniform requirements regarding the security and reliability of network and information systems that support the business processes of financial entities. Proactively deal with exposure risk.

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Government Infrastructure Analytics 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services.

Open Source 262

Open Source Software Software Development 262

The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

Beyond data and model parallelism for deep neural networks Jia et al., The goal here is to reduce the training times of DNNs by finding efficient parallel execution strategies, and even including its search time, FlexFlow is able to increase training throughput by up to 3.3x SysML’2019. compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

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. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes. So first thing to understand is that the benchmark skips a generation and compares product that differs over about a two year interval.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. The neural network (NN)-based agent uses a deep net with fully connected layers.

Testing 164

Testing AWS Lambda Network 164

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

We will also discuss related configuration variables to consider that can impact these KPIs, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of your MySQL server’s performance and efficiency. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup. Memcached shines in scenarios where a simple, fast, and efficient caching solution is required without data persistence. Memory Efficiency Compared When it comes to memory efficiency, Redis and Memcached have different strengths.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Adopting spot instances for less critical tasks, which are less expensive than on-demand or reserved instances, is an efficient way of managing expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

How do you efficiently store, compute, and retrieve the LCA given two concurrent versions? The short summary here is that “ diff experiments show that the version control-inspired replication model can be efficiently supported for common data structures by transmitting succinct diffs over the network rather than entire versions.”

C++ 98

C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Convolutional Capsule primitives can be implemented reasonably efficiently on CPU but problems arise on accelerators (e.g. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Community is everything in the industry.

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. For a SaaS business, SLA compliance should effectively and efficiently establish the following criteria: Uptime. Web and mobile applications provided by SaaS businesses are meant to be straight forward to consume for users.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Mobile Infrastructure Benchmarking 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Where VoltDB fits. Very Well!”

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

an environment variable like network connectivity changed over time and is not aligned with the assumption with which test automation was built initially. Test automation brings efficiency to the testing process, but it serves best when combined with some level of manual testing. Assuming Product Won’t Evolve.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When evaluating your performance solution requirements, keep in mind that: Maintaining performant sites and applications requires you to efficiently gather and analyze data points over time. Maintaining performant sites and applications requires you to efficiently gather and analyze data points over time.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51