The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. There's a huge short-term and long-term efficiency of services that depends on the successful coordination of cloud services and infrastructure. Does anyone really want to go back to the VM-centric days when we rolled everything ourselves?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet. There are many more opportunities to customize your infrastructure with an on-premise setup, but requires a significant upfront investment in hardware and software computing resources, as well as on-going maintenance responsibilities.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Additional request capacity is priced at cost-efficiently hourly rates as low as $.01

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.)

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. If executed efficiently with maximum coverage, can confirm the stability and workability of the application.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Hardware gets better, sure. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 It makes sense.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The engine should be compact and efficient, so one can deploy it in multiple datacenters on small clusters. Thus, on a conceptual level, an efficient query engine in a distributed database can act as a stream processing system and vice versa, a stream processing system can act as a distributed database query engine. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. These models are typically smaller (7 to 14 billion parameters) and easier to fine-tune, and they can run on very limited hardware; many can run on laptops, cell phones, or nanocomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.

Open Source 137

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

These standards allow the web to be free and accessible to anyone that has an internet connection, essentially evening the playing field for those surfing the web. The Internet before standards Before the World Wide Web, the internet existed almost exclusively to provide pages of full text information. Basically, it was boring.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. PWA Feature Detector. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. In such cases, mostly what is needed is the efficient implementation of test automation. Improvement of testing efficiency.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Internet 54

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. Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. How is Error Tracking Useful?

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

While the software was primitive, you could solve many different kinds of problems and perform sophisticated analyses more efficiently than ever (e.g., Each sought to develop and sponsor a library of applications and add-ons so they could sell hardware. They even brought them from home and used them at work. Fast forward 30 years.

Google 40

Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities. Nearly 15 years later, the situation has changed.

Artificial Intelligence 70

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 70

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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 ). . Business Requirement.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

With reduced congestion and latency, users experience faster, more reliable connectivity — even as they move outside across a corporate campus — which enhances efficiency and productivity within an organization while improving user experiences for customer-facing applications.

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Design your test without the hassle of managing hardware, giving you the ability to identify objectives and define a scenario by setting up a number of users and test duration. EveryStep is one of the few tools on the market today that allows you to interact with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), such as AJAX, Flash, HTML5, PHP, Ruby, etc.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. As Sara Souedan said, not everyone has access to fast internet. This allows your images to be delivered much faster all around the world.

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. But as I learned more and more about the spec, about how browsers behaved, and about how to make my process efficient, that time gap gradually reduced itself to being minimal, at most. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Availability Games 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75