The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, it turns out that an enormous number of active middleboxes make certain assumptions about TCP that no longer hold for the new extensions. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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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.). Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Lots of new videos!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

This element could be an image, video, or simply, just a large block of text. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. search traffic. People on your marketing team probably care about traffic and engagement. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Secondly, we can ask whether this also works for other use cases besides large file downloads and live video conferencing and streaming. The user will still notice the switch, but it won’t drop the video feed entirely. You can see this in the video below, courtesy of Cloudflare , as every browser uses a different multiplexer.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Get the eBook.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. Google Page Speed and the Lighthouse audit that they use will also check your site for best practices and let you know what images you need to optimize. Use a short video file instead of a GIF whenever possible.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Best Practices. That’s the major drawback when accessing overseas websites from China.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Best Practices. That’s the major drawback when accessing overseas websites from China.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Best Practices. That’s the major drawback when accessing overseas websites from China.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default. If you have any other theories or information on this — I’d love to know, so please drop a message in the comments below.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some tests, such as the Top 10 list, are easy for users to notice, while others, such as changes to the personalization and search systems or how Netflix encodes and delivers streaming video , are less obvious. At Netflix, we are not afraid to test boldly, and to challenge fundamental or long-held assumptions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Are videos properly optimized? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you're scrambling to optimize your site before Black Friday, you still have time to implement some or all of these best practices. In fact, for a lot of customers, iOS traffic – which Vitals can't track – is the most popular and has higher conversion rates. Were you prepared for changes to traffic patterns?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ).

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