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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS. a usage pattern occurring when 2 cores reading from / writing to unrelated variables that happen to share the same L1 cache line. Cache line is a concept similar to memory page?—? Thread 0’s cache in this example.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists

The Netflix TechBlog

They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. Instead, we created a service to take the most popular configurations and cache them. This salt formula example is the equivalent of running a “yum install sis-lighting-10_1” in the terminal.

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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This program is just one example of the many ways Netflix strives to entertain the world.

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How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data. Missing retry and failover implementations.

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Software Testing Errors to look out for (with examples)

Testsigma

Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. For example, a user has submitted a form, and the progress bar is showing no progress or activity then the user will get confused if the form has been submitted successfully or not. Example: divide by zero, multiplication of 2 large numbers, etc.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. For example, request collapsing , edge-side includes , etc.). Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a a customer in Leeds might get routed to the MAN datacentre.

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