The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Disk Caching? — ? Regional caching? —?Netflix Replays? —?More

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

The need for transaction speed in the face of increasing digital customer demand According to Bollampally, the company’s on-premises infrastructure couldn’t support the consolidated reporting it needed while responding to customers’ increasing demand for online shopping. Further, as Tractor Supply Co.

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Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 243

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. Disk cache Of course, network connectivity may not always be available so downloaded rule sets need to be cached to disk.

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Mobile Cache Network Technology 279

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” While these do have a purpose, most people use them incorrectly, in a way that can be dangerous to your real site speed. seconds to.27

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN.

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Cache Database Architecture Government 214

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time. If you are, you probably get some or all of the next sections for free anyway… Use a Fast DNS Provider One of the first things a new visitor will have to do to access your site is resolve the IP address using the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 234

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

AWS AWS provides a suite of services that a VFX studio, regardless of size, can use to leverage the cloud, including AWS Thinkbox Deadline , Amazon File Cache , and Render Farm Deployment Kit on AWS (RFDK). Additionally, Conductor supports render management systems?—?including including AWS Thinkbox Deadline and Pixar’s Tractor.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 291

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Source: Source: DebugBear.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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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. Fully managed cache for DynamoDB.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Animated images, otherwise served in GIF format, also benefit from WebP compression systems. Needless to say, there’s nothing that can beat WebP when it comes to speed while maintaining image integrity. “. Content management systems are in a similar spot.

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Website Speed Cache Google 75

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command. The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above. Rewriting always comes with a risk, and it’s never the first solution we reach for, particularly when working with a system that’s in place and working well.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. This can be achieved by reducing the size of files or images, using caching, and compressing data. Load time and network latency metrics. Optimize images and videos.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Development Process. Development Process. Uma Victor. 2021-07-08T11:00:00+00:00.

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Speed Processing Development Code 141

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms. Identification and authentication failures Unauthorized users can access a system because of weak security or session management functions.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This is a great example of how valuable Dynatrace is for diagnosing performance or scalability issues, and a great testimony that we at Dynatrace use our own product and its various capabilities across our globally distributed systems. One of them being a small cache that would have brought the initial startup time down by about 95%.

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Code Cloud Engineering Java 246

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

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 167

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. Source: nameshield.com Why reliable DNS hosting is important Choosing a reliable DNS hosting provider is critical because it can affect everything from the redundancy of your website, speed, and even security. What is DNS?

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" End-user connection speed If you live in an urban centre, you may enjoy connection speeds of 150 Mbps or more.

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Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

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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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By analyzing sessions of new employees interacting with key tools, teams can provide detailed instructions that will help to streamline the onboarding process and get staff up to speed faster. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays. Enhancing error correction.

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 264

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

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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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

With Dynatrace OneAgent running on your back-end systems, you gain an end-to-end perspective through your infrastructure all the way to your back-end method calls and database statements. To get you up to speed quickly and to test Dynatrace easily, we provide a small Flutter demo app. Test Flutter monitoring with our demo app.

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Code Mobile Monitoring Infrastructure 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

Davis tells you which statements need to be improved to speed up your application. The metrics are self-explanatory, so there’s no need for a detailed discussion of each, but a few metrics are definitely worth mentioning: If your Buffer cache hit is low, the database disk is used instead of RAM.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 170

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Every website owner wants to improve WordPress website speed. There is no magic wand or web plugin that can increase the web loading speed dramatically. But you need to know the right technique and hacks to increase the loading speed of the WordPress website. Caching is also a reason for a slow-loading site.

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Website Speed Cache Servers 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Every website owner wants to improve WordPress website speed. There is no magic wand or web plugin that can increase the web loading speed dramatically. But you need to know the right technique and hacks to increase the loading speed of the WordPress website. Caching is also a reason for a slow-loading site.

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Website Speed Cache Servers 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Standard Website Speed Metrics. As we can see, a website’s “speed” is not a one-size-fits-all number that we can simply lower. Speed Index. Instead, we get multiple measurements.

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Speed Metrics Website Cache 56

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130