The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. As noted above, it’s not actually possible to improve certain metrics in their own right. There are myriad reasons for this that I won’t cover here. duration ).

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 224

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). For example, let’s say you have an idea for a new social network and decide to use Kubernetes as your container management platform.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. With SnapStart enabled, function code is initialized once when a function version is published. Users can take advantage of the platform features immediately.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible. The DeviceToDeviceManager is also responsible for observability, with metrics around cache hits, calls to the data store, message delivery rates, and latency percentile measurements.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 228

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. 264/AVC Main profile per-title encodes.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. But what happens when it doesn't?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 57

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.  Beyond efficiency, validating performance thresholds is also crucial for revenues.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2022

include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity. Client-side caching minimizes potential for metrics loss. As an initial step toward preventing data loss we have developed the following: Offline metric collection for short outages. Stages of PMM HA.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte. Bounce Rate.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Speed Curve

AUGUST 18, 2024

A common pattern is seeing metrics degrade during low traffic times due to the size of the sample, caching inefficiency (for example, cold CDN cache), and routine maintenance. In addition, we've added page views time series data to our Core Web Vitals time series charts. A whole lot more.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Testing Network 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Using a data-driven approach to size Azure resources, Dynatrace OneAgent captures host metrics out-of-the-box to assess CPU, memory, and network utilization on a VM host.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

It uses plenty of ranking metrics to determine in which place to display any specific page given its organic search rankings. Caching is also a reason for a slow-loading site. How a Fast WordPress website impacts your Business? The very first impact that it has is it influences your SEO ranking as bots love fast-loading pages.

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Website Speed Cache Servers 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

It uses plenty of ranking metrics to determine in which place to display any specific page given its organic search rankings. Caching is also a reason for a slow-loading site. How a Fast WordPress website impacts your Business? The very first impact that it has is it influences your SEO ranking as bots love fast-loading pages.

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Website Speed Cache Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. Waterfaller focuses on issues in the network waterfall and provides recommendations for improvement.

Cache 107

Cache Website Best Practices Network 107

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. Better tooling and metrics standardization. In other words, the field lacked standardization.

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Website Performance Google Media 129

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Make sure you’re tracking the right metrics Think beyond Core Web Vitals. Consider adding custom metrics. If you need to track iOS traffic and other clients, custom metrics let you measure what is most important to your business. Third parties can hurt important metrics, like Core Web Vitals. Track your CDN.

Speed 57

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 57

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Some of the metrics we use to measure performance on the Netflix TV app include animation frames per second (FPS), key input responsiveness (the amount of time before a member’s key press renders a change in the UI), video playback speed, and app start-up time. The majority of legacy devices run at 28MB of surface cache.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We do not use it for metrics, histograms, timers, or any such near-real time analytics use case. Challenges At Netflix, temporal data is continuously generated and utilized, whether from user interactions like video-play events, asset impressions, or complex micro-service network activities. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

Latency 236

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 236

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth). N+1 Query Pattern.

Cache 205

Cache Architecture Database Government 205

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. The db.cr1.8xlarge has 88 ECUs, 244GB of memory, high-bandwidth network, and the ability to deliver up to 20,000 IOPS for MySQL 5.6,

Cache 114

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 114

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Cache Metrics 127

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

This blog post introduces the new REST API improvements and some best practices for streamlining API requests and decreasing load on the API by reducing the number of requests required for reporting and reducing the network bandwidth required for implementing common API use cases.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can use it to report the load time of elements on the page, even going so far as to report on Core Web Vitals metrics in real time.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 99

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. can all provide valuable insights.

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