The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022. Krasula, A.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

In their case, this is specifically about the pensions element of their platform which had seen 6-7x as much traffic during the pandemic. This is starting as an activity performed in pre-prod as part of “game days,” to give teams the time they can dedicate to this objective and add their own degree of creativity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Queues: Any application that deals with traffic congestion, messaging, data gathering, job management, or packer routing should consider a Redis Queue , as this can help you manage your queue size by rate of arrival and departure for resource distribution. Who uses Redis?

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). How digital experience monitoring changes the game.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 216

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. In this scenario, it is also crucial to be efficient in resource utilization and scaling with frugality.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are also enabling some of the Nordics' most successful startups and gaming companies, such as: Bambora, Evolution Gaming, Hemnet, iZettle, KRY, LEO Innovation Lab, Lingit, Lunar Way, Mapillary, Mathem, Mojang, Paradox Interactive, Quinyx, Rovio, Supercell, Tidal, Trustpilot, Tink, and Vivino. Telenor Connexion.

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DZone

JULY 11, 2023

In the realm of transportation, AI is driving advancements in autonomous vehicles and optimizing traffic flow. Additionally, AI finds applications in areas such as manufacturing, customer service, agriculture, climate modeling, gaming, and personalization of user experiences.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 125

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 207

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. The City of Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. It’s like a well-maintained highway where you can cruise without any traffic jams.

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Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Traffic Cache Servers Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Rajan Mittal and Andrew Park Why Regional Reserved Instances Are a Game Changer for Netflix. . - Dave Hahn (CORE team) gave an updated A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer III.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Monitoring Interaction to Next Paint There’s going to be a new way to gain insights into main thread traffic when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is released as a new core vital metric in March 2024. What’s so important about that?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Rajan Mittal and Andrew Park Why Regional Reserved Instances Are a Game Changer for Netflix. . - Dave Hahn (CORE team) gave an updated A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer III.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Servers Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing! How is Error Tracking Useful?

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” Similar to the dawn of Hadoop, we were back to problems that existing tools could not solve.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Enhance Call Routing and Response Times Efficient call routing and quick response times are crucial for customer satisfaction. A call tracking app allows you to monitor traffic and identify peak call times. Optimize Keyword and Ad Campaigns A phone call tracking app can be a game-changer if your business relies on digital advertising.

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Strategy Big Data Scalability Games 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company. Tech labor was wage work.

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Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Source: Smart Data Collective.

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DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. I remember what cloud meant to the people 10 years back and what it means now.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Read “ Efficiently load JavaScript with defer and async ” for more information. I then clicked through to a game review page that weighed another 8.5 It accounts for 1.42% of global traffic as of June 2019, according to caniuse.com. This makes the script completely non-blocking. Anyway, enough Google dissecting.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Similarly, if you’re focusing on constant interaction (be it video chat, collaborative editing, or gaming), then your worst-case scenarios should improve more than if you have a news website. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Image source ) ( Large preview ).

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