The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders. Genesis takes care of joining, aggregating, formatting and filtering data based on what is available in the Data Source Definitions and specified by the user through the Input Definition being executed.

Big Data 255

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 255

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

OAuth is an open standard for access delegation that is currently used by Amazon , Google , Microsoft , PayPal , Facebook , Twitter , and other companies. By definition RESTful APIs should be stateless, meaning that each request should be individually validated for authentication/authorization by the receiving server.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Tuning Google Testing 199

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product. If we talk about load testing tools trends, we definitely see that large companies don’t want to invest much in loading testing tools.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2021

Whilst the marketing team initially argued they had Google Analytics to understand the impact of an email campaign, Mark’s team could add value by coupling this data with wider DevOps metrics such as real user data. Where is the definitive line of BizDevOps?” Why stop at your own virtual walls? Mark asks. “To To me, there isn’t one.

DevOps 264

DevOps Metrics Virtualization Strategy 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack.

Mobile 236

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 236

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize the textbook definition, which originates from engineering and control theory, observability is essentially the ability to understand what is happening inside of a system from the knowledge of its external outputs.

IoT 237

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 237

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

In the mid 2000s, Google published their Dapper paper which describes techniques for distributed tracing at Google. The overall fallacy in this assumption becomes obvious when you look at the definitions of the terms. It also introduced the terms ‘Trace’ for a transaction and ‘Span’ for an operation within a trace.

Open Source 279

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 279

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 14, 2024

This is the anti-flicker snippet from the now defunct Google Optimize.async-hide { opacity : 0 !important By using blocking=render , that timeout now becomes governed by the browser’s own heuristics , which is almost definitely going to be longer than four seconds. important } ( function ( a , s , y , n , c , h , i , d , e ) { s.

C++ 303

C++ Testing Tools Government Testing 303

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. Maestro high level architecture In Maestro, a workflow is a DAG (Directed acyclic graph) of individual units of job definition called Steps.

Java 207

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 207

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

Google 130

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more.

AWS 264

AWS Analytics Monitoring Government 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

The Google Site Reliability Engineering page is a great read for understanding and embracing the idea of defining SLOs for reliable global IT services. Typically, an SRE team spends a good amount of time selecting the best indictor metrics for their given services, which then leads to well-defined SLOs that reflect the service quality.

Best Practices 237

Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 237

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

status, title, description, priority, etc,) and Google Doc and Google Drive for managing data itself. From common terms and their definitions, individuals, teams, and services. Slack for managing incident metadata (e.g. When teams need to look across many incidents, Dispatch provides an Admin UI.

Open Source 209

Open Source AWS Google Speed 209

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

Google 142

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 142

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 86

Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. Find the PurePerformance podcast on the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Spotify Spreaker iHeart Radio Google Podcasts GoodPods Castbox The post Is DevOps dead? Who is responsible for that in a modern development team?

DevOps 240

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 240

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

Code 147

Code Performance Media Google 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud.

Analytics 236

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 236

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This is definitely a bug in WebKit/Blink—missing quotes shouldn’t hide the @import ed stylesheet from the Preload Scanner. In fact, Google Analytics even tell us what to do, and they’re right: Copy and paste this code as the first item into the of every webpage you want to track. The same waterfall occurs in Opera and Safari.).

Network 279

Network Performance Media Cache 279

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

Google 100

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.”

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

Code 130

Code Performance Google Media 130

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. INP is a relatively new metric, so the suggested thresholds from Google are subject to change.

Google 121

Google Traffic Metrics Ecommerce 121

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. Right now api gw is good enough for our poc, but definitely not for our production load.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

But perhaps it should infringe something: even when the collection of data is legal (which, statistically, it won’t entirely be for any web-scale corpus), it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate, and it definitely doesn’t mean there was informed consent. Google has an alternative solution that supports journalism. joined Flickr.

Artificial Intelligence 120

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 120

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. We could have specified a narrow definition of cloud—inclusive of the SaaS, PaaS, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud; exclusive of cloud-based email, office productivity, etc.—but

Cloud 144

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 144

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. According to Google, an INP of 200 milliseconds or less is ideal. Not sure what INP means or why it matters?

Mobile 88

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 88

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Et Tu, Google? #. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 WebP WebP is an image format developed by Google to ensure superior compression of photos.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3 seconds on desktop and 11.4

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I saw a company spending a nontrivial amount of time gathering all these statistics, asking people to constantly fill out gazillion JIRA fields, google spreadsheets, and so on, just to say at the end, “This component is in good shape, and this one is in bad.” larger topics, including problem definition, documentation, UX, design, etc.).

Software 245

Software Software Code Design 245

Particular Software

JUNE 28, 2021

Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. Each RESTful endpoint is that developer’s definition of what REST means, which is different from what every other developer thinks REST means. None of these things can talk to each other.

Network 98

Network Java Design Google 98

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. For example, one of Google’s Web Core Vitals , which are soon to affect the SEO of our pages, include a metric called First Input Delay (FID) and you have to collect data via JavaScript¹ on your page to use it. Very clever.

Analytics 95

Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 95

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I’m worried that experienced developers will add it to their arsenal of tools to get the job done, just like IDE code completion, Stack Overflow, and Google. They will learn how to coach the AI to give them “better” code (for some definition of better) over time. Maybe, but we’re definitely not there yet.

Development 118

Development Code Google Engineering 118