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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime, which involved a total overhaul from the client to the API layer. Until recently, an internal API framework, Falcor , powered our mobile apps. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction.

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Native App Network Performance Analysis

DZone

When 54 percent of the internet traffic share is accounted for by Mobile , it's certainly nontrivial to acknowledge how your app can make a difference to that of the competitor!

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

Given the global nature of the service and Netflix’s commitment to creating a service that members enjoy, it is not surprising that we support a wide variety of streaming devices, from set-top-boxes and mobile devices to smart TVs. Hence, as the encoding team, we continuously maintain a variety of encode families, stretching back to H.263.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

It’s no different to saying this person was from Nigeria or this person was on mobile or this person was on a high latency connection. 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. RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing. The bad news?

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Looking at our high traffic UI screens (like the homepage) allowed us to identify any regressions caused by the endpoint before we enabled it for all our users.

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How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

Smashing Magazine

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Large preview ).

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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