The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). How can we develop templated detection modules (rules- and ML-based) and data streams to increases speed of development?

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They provide a reliable and effective method for developing, deploying, and executing applications in a range of settings, from development to production. In the example below, I will show how to set the WiredTiger cache. Verify image names, ports, and environment variables one more time and examine container logs.

Scalability 60

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 60

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy Metric(s) affected: Rendering metrics for repeat views The first time you visit a site, it's likely that your browser won't have any of the resources it needs to load the page already stored in its cache. This is often referred to as a cold cache. Fix: Reduce payload size.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Throughout this tutorial, we will be looking at practices that should be adopted, things that should be avoided, and have a closer look at some helpful tools to make writing Vue.js

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. So, while it’s tempting to solve everything in one fell swoop, the best approach to improving performance might be an iterative one. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. Here is how we tackled the challenge.

Cache 73

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 73

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Impressive results I have to say!

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Cache Architecture Database Government 191

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. Adding to this complexity is the effect of seasonality.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, we will discuss the development of the Rich Collection row and the iterations we went through to be able to support this experience across the majority of the TV ecosystem. UI developers on the Netflix TV app also need to consider some challenges that developers on other platforms often are able to take for granted.

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Cache Design Testing Development 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Missing caching layers. Operational excellence.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 179

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

Website 105

Website Media Mobile Network 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

For developers. The Traditional CMS tries and succeeds in many ways to serve the needs of the developer, content author, and marketer. The delivery of static assets in formats such as WebP via a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is also crucial to serving your users a fast website. Microservices architecture. Omnichannel.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. You can do that with the developer tools by simulating a mobile CPU.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX.

Speed 114

Speed Cache Latency AWS 114

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. It becomes especially tricky to optimize when the LCP element is an image.

Media 107

Media Mobile Website Metrics 107

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

Network 107

Network Servers Cache Traffic 107

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Chrome Developer tools. This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

This issue steered developers to resort to third-party libraries when all they needed was to avoid prop drilling. A route will wrap other routes and thus provide them with common definitions instead of making developers duplicate code. discussions to provide a smooth developer experience for achieving this. error handler.

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Cache Servers Best Practices Code 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. Browser DevTools.

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 96

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times. aspx ) and ​​ Sparse Files ​​ ( [link] f ault.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 108

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Hooks give power to React functional components, making it possible to develop an entire application with it. React solves this problem with functional components and hooks, allowing developers to focus on the project rather than code syntax. The plugin provides useful warnings and hints on the best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. An image gallery eagerly loading all the images it needs upfront, as shown in the Chrome DevTools Network panel. Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145