The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

Media 295

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 295

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This video (below) illustrates my experience. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. As you can see, I was unable to use this page at all.

Retail 278

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. In Edgar’s early days, as we strove to build valuable abstractions on top of trace data, the Edgar team first targeted streaming video use cases. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

Latency 297

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 297

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 8, 2020

To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. It was a little rushed for 90 minutes, but I've heard people found it valuable anyway.

Systems 138

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 138

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application. Dynatrace made the decision when we first introduced Visually complete three years ago to base our calculations on changes to the DOM rather than measure Visually complete based on a video capture of the page load.

Metrics 246

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 246

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Using filmstrips or videos to illustrate a point goes a really long way when speaking to stakeholders that are out of the loop on performance. Benchmark yourself.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

n0derunner

AUGUST 10, 2020

A series of videos showing how to install, run, modify and analyze HCI clusters with the Nutanix X-ray tool How to Download and Install X-Ray to a Nutanix AHV Cluster How to modify an existing X-Ray workload to create your own HCI benchmark How to use the X-ray built-in comparison function to investigate performance of.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Hot-reloading is supported as well, as well as video recording and screenshots.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

Infrastructure 236

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 236

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 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

stephenbalaban : We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News! Only few astute folks take seriously. This was foolish on multiple dimensions.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

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. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. The variation in the transaction rate is due to the benchmark itself, the transaction rate is not expected to be uniform. Effect of removing CPU constraints and maintaining data locality on a running DB instance.

Benchmarking 76

Benchmarking Storage Cache Tuning 76

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). The CLS score for this page is 1.0468.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. 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. Use caution if you plan to benchmark real production servers. Generation. Conclusion.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Here you can see page growth from 2011 to now, broken out by content type: The first thing that jumps out is the large amount of page real estate being taken up by video. These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context.

Metrics 85

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 85

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

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

MARCH 7, 2020

To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. It was a little rushed for 90 minutes, but I've heard people found it valuable anyway.

Systems 52

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. It was a little rushed for 90 minutes, but I've heard people found it valuable anyway.

Systems 52

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 52

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Web performance solutions like Dotcom-Monitor offer real browser-based monitoring for your web pages and applications to establish performance benchmarks. Additionally, the solution captures a video that is synced with the waterfall chart, so you can easily diagnose page errors, minimize downtime, and ultimately, impact to visitors.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. Those are already big wins.

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

If you're more into watching than reading, my fellow SpeedCurver Cliff Crocker has created a great trio of short explainer videos, which I've included at the bottom of this post.). Looking at this list, it's pretty clear where some of the issues lie: Video size has jumped from 32KB to more than 4MB. Generate comparison videos.

Metrics 66

Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 66

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Impact of performance improvements Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path for Instant Mobile Websites (Video) What are responsive websites made of? Muti-device challenges.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Largest Contentful Paint – LCP measures when the largest visual element (image or video) in the viewport finishes rendering. More on that later.) That's huge.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). This video shows you how to use SpeedCurve to investigate CLS issues.). More: Watch this video for a walkthrough of the RUM Sessions dashboard. Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. At the bottom of the page, you can check how many kB of resources your client consumes.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. Vox Media, makers of The Verge and SB Nation, benchmarked themselves against the competition and then declared performance bankruptcy.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Benchmark your site against your competitors. It’s important to remember that these numbers are medians. I routinely see pages that are between 5 and 10 MB in size. Images account for roughly half the size. Take Amazon, for example. Connect the dots.

Performance 85

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. > Page Size and Weight (Synthetic) If you're concerned about serving huge pages to your mobile users, or if you're worried about site contributors accidentally publishing huge unoptimized image and video files, then you should consider tracking metrics like page size and weight.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota). Watch the Video.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

n0derunner

MARCH 7, 2019

I use the “built in” benchmark pgbench to run a simple set of queries. Then reboot the kernel I used these excellent resources How to modify the kernel command line How to enable hugepages and this great video on Linux virtual memory. For this experiment I am using Postgres v11 on Linux 3.10

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking C++ Virtualization 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. It also has a helpful element index that’s worth investigating in and of itself. Visit website 3. Visit website 19. Visit website 20. Visit website 36.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks. If you are new to SQL Server, get introduced to Always On Availability Groups with this video. Learn more of the details from Kevin Farlee from this video or head right to our documentation at [link]. The results we achieved were remarkable.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Many factors are invisible, as Paul Luna — a professor at the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication — mentions in this video Paul Luna on the typographer’s task.

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

This lets you do great things like generate side-by-side filmstrips – and even better: videos – of your site alongside your competitors' sites (or any other aspirational sites). Because SpeedCurve synthetic monitoring is built on top of WebPageTest, you can take advantage of WPT's filmstrip and video capabilities.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

When more and more video content is streaming directly into the consumer’s hands, how will your streaming services ensure the performance of those services, and at what level will you ensure high service levels? Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40