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. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, when Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) enter this complex space—especially Edge WAFs—the game changes. Benchmarks should be established to measure the latency introduced by the WAF, ensuring it stays within acceptable limits.‍Conclusion‍In

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, when Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) enter this complex space—especially Edge WAFs—the game changes. ‍By By operating on the edge network, closer to end-users, these specialized WAFs offer superior security.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Performance Cache Network Servers 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145