The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. In order to do that, the storage cloud object is modeled as a number of fixed size parts.

Cloud 242

Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Model observability provides visibility into resource consumption and operation costs, aiding in optimization and ensuring the most efficient use of available resources. To observe model drift and accuracy, companies can use holdout evaluation sets for comparison to model data.

Cache 276

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Using a connection pool in each module is hardly efficient: Even with a relatively small number of modules, and a small pool size in each, you end up with a lot of server processes. The architecture of a generic connection-pool. However, modern web applications are rarely monolithic, and often use multiple languages and technologies.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace automation and AI-powered monitoring of your entire IT landscape help you to engage your Citrix management tools where they are most efficient. Dynatrace news.

Latency 164

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 164

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency.

Open Source 159

Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 159

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. Test Environment Setup Instance Types : We used similar cloud instances for AWS RDS and ScaleGrid to ensure a fair comparison. You can access the benchmark here: [link].

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. VQS is called using the measureQuality endpoint.

Media 178

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 178

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. provides higher compression rates.

Storage 130

Storage Network Open Source Latency 130

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. Who can benefit from DLV?

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

VoltDB

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By conducting routine tasks on machinery and infrastructure, organizations can avoid costly breakdowns and maintain operational efficiency. As industries adopt these technologies, preventive maintenance is evolving to support smarter, data-driven decision-making, ultimately boosting efficiency, safety, and cost savings.

Automotive 52

Automotive IoT Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. for the wasm-version.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. This approach can be very efficient because of the tiny memory footprint of the Loglog counter, even for millions of unique visitors. bits per unique value. Frequency Estimation: Count-Min Sketch.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

In-Memory Storage Engine, as the name suggests, stores data in memory for faster performance and lower latencies. Feature Comparison: MMAPV1 vs WiredTiger MMAPV1 provides document-level locking that allows for independent updates on different documents in a single collection. released in December 2015.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

Metrics 146

Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 146

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technically, “performance” metrics are those relating to the responsiveness or latency of the app, including start up time. While test metrics and metrics collected during real use do not lend themselves to direct comparison, measuring the relative change in metrics in pre-production builds can help us to anticipate regressions in production.

Performance 208

Performance Performance Testing Metrics Testing 208

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

Metrics 143

Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 143

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

This means reports are now much more efficiently organized and won’t override each other no matter how many reports are saved. In addition, Lighthouse also collects other metrics that aren’t listed in this part of the report but are still in an appropriate format to be included in the comparison. Comparing Lighthouse reports.

Google 86

Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. It’s less of an apples-to-oranges comparison and more like apples-to-orange-sherbet. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

Metrics 130

Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 130

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There are three generations of GPUs that are relevant to this comparison. The Hopper H100 was announced in 2022 and is the current volume product that people are using, so that is used as the baseline for comparison. The HGX H100 8-GPU system is the baseline for comparison, and its datasheet performance is shownbelow.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. Here's a comparison for an average-sized DTraceToolkit script (seeksize.d) It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0:

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters. Introducing race logic. Performance evaluation.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Individual samplers need to be built to be high throughput and memory efficient. The paper presents results on TCP-H (which looks a bit like a toy compared to the real production queries, but is useful for comparison), as well as from some production-like queries. Implementation. Of the other 14 all but one improve. What next?

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Form-associated Web Components. CSS Custom Paint. Trusted Types.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Only overflow will await you.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. Using the minimum number of accumulator registers needed to tolerate the pipeline latency (12), the assembly code for the inner loop is: B1.8: 8.056 0.056 75.0%

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. Using the minimum number of accumulator registers needed to tolerate the pipeline latency (12), the assembly code for the inner loop is: B1.8: 8.056 0.056 75.0%

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Testing helps in finding latency time of an application: Users prefer to use mobile phones over desktop when they are looking for any query, booking flight/movie ticket.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. Here's a comparison for an average-sized DTraceToolkit script (seeksize.d) It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0:

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

iOS's security track record, patch velocity, and update latency for its required-use engine is not best-in-class. In addition to being self-defeating regarding engine choice, this fear also seems to ignore the best available comparison points. Apple's right to worry about engine security.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134