The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Each of these represents a performance.mark() that signifies the completed downloading of the CSS or the end of the. Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. performance.

Media 356

Media Cache Network Website 356

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. As mentioned throughout this post, Greenplum is an open source database so the community version is absolutely free to download and use. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation tools speed up delivery cycles by reducing human error and bottlenecks, resulting in fewer and shorter feedback loops. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps.

DevOps 201

DevOps Speed Innovation Monitoring 201

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

Best Practices 233

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 233

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. We see that an MP4 file is being downloaded.

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 211

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Generally speaking, increased bandwidth is only particularly useful when you’re transferring or downloading large files. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2.

Latency 136

Latency Network Speed Servers 136

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.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Users downloaded more than 218 billion mobile apps in 2020 , according to a Statista report. This performance is influenced by a variety of factors, including the application code itself, the device being used, the server handling the data, and the network supplying the connection. Dynatrace news. What is mobile analytics?

Mobile 191

Mobile Analytics Monitoring Best Practices 191

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Bringing physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) was a big step toward the restoration speed. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. So we decided to try parallel (concurrent) download. So every minute matters. Let’s try.

Speed 84

Speed Storage AWS Azure 84

Scalegrid

MAY 22, 2020

However, as the number of slaves increases, they will have a toll on the master resources because the binary logs will need to be served to different slaves working at different speeds. If the data churn on the master is high, the serving of binary logs alone could saturate the network interface of the master.

Servers 262

Servers Transportation Database Availability 262

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. Full-stack observability helps DevOps teams quickly identify potential issues in the CI/CD pipeline , fixing problems with greater speed and confidence.

DevOps 242

DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 242

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. 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. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

Latency 215

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 215

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 129

Website Performance Google Website Performance 129

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

To simulate those users’ journeys, multiple synthetic locations deployed within various sections of internal networks are required. After saving the location’s configuration, you’re allowed to download the generated YAML file automatically which will be the basis for your deployment.

Scalability 220

Scalability Virtualization Monitoring Open Source 220

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. In theory, the maximum downlink speed is 100 Mbps.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

Media 110

Media Speed Network Analytics 110

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 115

Storage Network Open Source Latency 115

Dareboost

JANUARY 9, 2024

Web performance, or website speed, is an integral part of web development that pertains to the speed at which web pages are downloaded and displayed on the user’s browser.

Speed 52

Speed Performance Website Network 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. How about errors?”

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This plugin was initially released as a lightweight caching plugin that was able to speed up WordPress websites by generating static HTML files that could then be minified and even converted for WebP support. Now, over five years later, it has grown to have 90,000+ active installations and just recently passed 1,000,000 all time downloads.

Cache 116

Cache Network Open Source Speed 116

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. There is an additional /mnt/storage network drive mount that is available for high latency, large storage purposes. See details below.

Storage 153

Storage Latency Operating System Network 153

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. This is because historically, faster network speed has enabled developers to deliver more code to users—in particular, more JavaScript code.

Network 84

Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

Cache 97

Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 128

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. “ The results were clear—speed matters! Want proof?

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences. You can monitor a number of pages on your website or track the speed of your competition to make sure you stay ahead. Large preview ) What Are The Different Types Of Core Web Vitals Data?

Google 108

Google Monitoring Website Speed 108

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Network Throttling. When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network connections can vary for many reasons. This is why network throttling is so important. Enabling Network Throttling with Dotcom-Monitor.

Network 40

Network Monitoring Latency Website 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. Large preview ). .</p> Large preview ). Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Code Mobile Availability 126

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

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AWS 148

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 148