The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Providing a seamless and consistent Netflix experience across various platforms (iOS, Android, smart TVs, Roku, Amazon FireStick, web browser) and various device types (mobile phones, tablets, televisions, computers, set top boxes) requires more than the traditional request-response model. This messaging system is described in this blog post.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 254

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone. The code is still up on github.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes. Again, no compression is not a viable option and should be considered a bug—please don’t design your bundling strategy around the absence of compression.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a SmartTV app, an ATM, an airport check-in kiosk or similar. One could argue having a mobile app that sits in the app store with a 1-star rating is worse than having no app at all. Today, every car insurance company provides a mobile app. Dynatrace news.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. RTT is designed to replace Effective Connection Type (ECT) with higher resolution timing information. What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A digital experience (DX) is a user’s interaction with a digital touchpoint — whether it’s purchasing an item online, receiving updates from a mobile app, or power-using a business platform. A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a smart TV, ATM, airport check-in kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, and so on.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile-first indexing.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2024

From mobile applications to websites, government services must be accessible, available, and performant for those who rely on them. The goal is to unify four key areas of the organization into one holistic service design and delivery approach. This blog originally appeared in Federal News Network.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Each team had its favorite tool—whether for networking, development, or database management—and Odigo needed to centralize. “We It’s much more complex to see the customer side: his own network, his own laptop. Mobile, broadband or data service, you want your service to be activated instantly.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., This paper caught my eye for its combination of an intriguing idea (opportunistic offload of computation from mobile devices to the edge) and the elegance of the way the web worker interface supports this use case.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. You can easily validate public or locally hosted pages across multiple mobile browsers for complete compatibility.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. Announcing Amazon SNS with Mobile Push.

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Mobile Development AWS Games 84

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 173

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Organizations often start their APM journey by implementing APM tools which are typically designed to look at one specific aspect of application performance. For these reasons and many more, organizations now use modern APM tools or APM Platforms to understand and resolve the myriad issues that can impact an application’s performance.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 26, 2025

A traditional WordPress website will not engage users unless it meets all three essential criteria: mobile-friendliness, intuitive design, and strong user engagement capabilities. The digital-native generation of Gen Z requires quick, visual, and highly interactive web experiences.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Improvements have been seen across all device categories ranging from TVs to mobiles and tablets. The graphic below (Fig.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 260

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s 2021 and we now have a mobile app for everything. Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process. Best Mobile App Automation Testing Tools.

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2020, Netflix started streaming AV1 to the Android mobile app. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. Being more efficient, AV1 delivers videos with improved visual quality at the same bitrate, and thus higher VMAF scores.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

What data would you like to have if you were designing an asset suite? Images for the title “Purple Hearts” Creative Insights To create suites that are relevant, attractive, and authentic, we’ve relied on creative strategists and designers with intimate knowledge of the titles to recommend and create the right art for upcoming titles.

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Media Design Innovation Mobile 262

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. 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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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. This trend shows us how mobile devices have become a part and parcel of our lives. The growing mobile sales pressure has resulted in the growing mobile applications day after day. Variety of Mobile Applications. Long List of Operating Systems.

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Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

billion in number and has become the part and parcel of our lives; the mobile phone. Mobile applications are taking the world by storm. 2021 alone is seeing 693 billion USD in revenue from mobile apps. The frequent mobile app updates are living evidence of this claim. A mobile device is a different story though.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

However, with responsive website designing, a website would automatically adjust to the screen size of the device on which it’s opened. In this article, we will discuss the role of responsive website design in the Ecommerce industry. It removes the need to create two different websites for desktop and mobile operations.

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Ecommerce Website Design Mobile 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees.

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Monitoring Mobile Social Media Open Source 165

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Ultimately, for now it seems that it’s only the latter that contribute to SEO ranking — both on mobile and on desktop. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. PageSpeed Compare. Bulk Core Web Vitals Check.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. I am designed to be run on a variety of different hardware and software platforms, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and cloud-based servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This was a custom built, 3-step pipeline: Capture the production traffic for the desired path(s) Replay the traffic against the two services in the TEST environment Compare and assert for differences It was a self-contained flow that, by design, captured entire requests, and not just the one path we requested.

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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. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach. Call it convenience or anything else — people are consuming content on their mobile phones more than their desktops and this will only increase in the near future. According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. What Is Mobile Web Testing?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

At Kitopi we are satisfying the worlds’ appetite by running a high-tech powered network of cloud kitchens. Kitopi is a very dynamic system that handles a high volume of food orders coming in from various sources, e.g.: websites, mobile apps or even 3 rd parties that leverage our API to push orders.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. including the decision to end the experiment early.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

GoSquared provides various analytics services that web and mobile companies can use to understand their customers' behaviors. Mobilize business operations by computing everywhere: Computing and data processing within the confines of a data center or office is easy.

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