The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency. Introducing bpftop bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average execution runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program.

Performance 181

Performance Benchmarking Programming Open Source 181

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Assuming the responsibility and taking the initiative to instill effective cybersecurity practices now will yield benefits in terms of enhanced productivity and efficiency for your organization in the future. The program advocates for a shift in behavior nationwide. What is this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month about?

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Speed Benchmarking Infrastructure 264

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

AUGUST 26, 2024

Pillar 2: ICT incident management Organizations will need a solid incident management program to meet incident reporting timeframes. Wherever possible, adopt solutions that automatically check for potential violations of DORA compliance requirements and industry benchmarks (such as the Center for Internet Security critical security controls).

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Government Infrastructure Analytics 264

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. This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In fact, according to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey , JavaScript and Python are now the #1 and #2 most used programming languages, respectively (excluding HTML/CSS and SQL as “programming languages”). To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use.

C++ 109

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 109

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

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

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

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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 Architecture Scalability 130

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. Detect a regression in a test case.

Testing 164

Testing AWS Lambda Network 164

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

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. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ScaleGrid’s comprehensive solutions provide automated efficiency and cost reduction while offering tailored features such as predictive analytics for businesses of all sizes. This automation of processes allows more time dedicated to fulfilling core tasks efficiently without any extra effort required on your part.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

These techniques work well for scientific programs that are dominated by arrays. However, they are ineffective on object-based programs because objects do not fall neatly into fixed-size blocks and have a more irregular layout. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

We must have a deep understanding of what changes will have the biggest impact on velocity, predictability, efficiency, throughput and so on.”. Are they meeting their benchmarks for adoption, are their outcomes improving, are the KPIs different? Flow : How efficient are you at delivering value to customers? “As

Metrics 98

Metrics DevOps Software Software 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

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It is essentially a set of instructions or a program that is executed automatically in response to specific events or actions occurring within the database. Additionally, they enable the implementation of sophisticated business logic within the database, streamlining repetitive tasks and enhancing overall efficiency.

Cache 75

Cache Database Games Healthcare 75

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs. These cellular neural network circuits may be used to create efficient convolution neural networks (CNNs) used in deep-learning applications, and fundamentally change the way we design AI processors.

Architecture 69

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 69

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.

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Subjects like version control, crowdfunding, database selection and code editor choices are essential to efficient modern workflows, and this is a good place to start learning about them. Visit website 14. CSSWizardy CSSWizardy is a good place to learn about scalable CSS practices and robust coding in general. Visit website 19.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This low-end cohort will filter through the device population for years to come, pulling our performance budgets down, even as renewed process improvement is unlocking improved power efficiency and performance at the high end of the first-sale market. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. Hey Microsoft – I’ve got a cool idea for how you can make file notifications more efficient. You know where to find me. Weaponizing this knowledge.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e.,

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e.,

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Lazy write (LRU and memory-pressure based) Checkpoint (recovery-interval based) Eager write (nonlogged I/O based) To ​​ efficiently flush writes to disk, ​​ WriteFileGather ​​ is used. This is efficient because many of the pages will remain in the SQL Server buffer pool but are now in a clean state.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

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. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards? OpenTelemetry: An open source success story.

Open Source 262

Open Source Software Software Development 262

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. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards? OpenTelemetry: An open source success story.

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. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards? OpenTelemetry: An open source success story.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

To efficiently utilize our compute resources, Titus employs a CPU oversubscription feature , meaning the combined virtual CPUs allocated to containers exceed the number of available physical CPUs on a Titus agent. Blame Noisy Neighbors The Workbench instance runs as a Titus container.

Latency 214

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 214

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Version7 (Future): Move all compute to the public cloud, carve out more services for impact isolation, dynamic resource pooling to manage pets and cattle efficiently. For permissions data, we have rearchitected that layer many times and recently we wrote a TRIE to cache this efficiently. This is the current architecture.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52