The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.”

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

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

JULY 31, 2024

How Dynatrace RUM helped one company identify the business impacts of the CrowdStrike outage For example, during the CrowdStrike crisis, a North American mortgage provider received an alert for unexpected low traffic. Dynatrace AI continuously monitors these benchmarks, allowing teams to identify and address potential issues proactively.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

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

MAY 3, 2022

First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. As traffic picks up, Real User Monitoring detects HTTP and JavaScript errors, while Session Replay adds experience and error validation to help drive remediation. DEM in action.

Mobile 242

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

Latency 298

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. Some organizations require adding IP addresses to security configurations to allow traffic from and to them. your website or application) needs to accept traffic from the IP addresses of our synthetic locations.

Scalability 29

Scalability Traffic Monitoring Benchmarking 29

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. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Its CI counterpart not so much. Large preview ).

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. This allowed us to increase total storage capacity without adding a new Cassandra node to the existing cluster.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

Back in the day I wrote a lot of benchmarks in order to look for places where the actual performance of the CPU didn’t match what we expected. I wrote a lot of benchmarks. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. So, anyway.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. There are already standard benchmark suites for JavaScript performance in the browser, and we can include applications written in node.js (server-side JavaScript), Python web servers, and more.

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. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. If a server fails, the load balancer redirects traffic to a replicated server in another cluster.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

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

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below. Evaluation.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

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.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

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. The table below is showing the total amount of traffic used. Large preview ). Another thing to keep in mind is Constant Rate Factor.

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

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)

Performance 128

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Benchmark key pages against those of your competitors. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve. Why should I care about page labels? How do page labels help me?

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 64

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

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 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

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

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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

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. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. A 2021 Global Baseline.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection: Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc.,

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138