The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible. For these requests where caching removed KeyValue from the hot path, we were able to greatly speed things up.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Secure – DynamoDB provides fine-grained access control at the table, item, and attribute level, integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? If a problem calls for a shiny new technique, or a large, branching neural network, someone on your team needs to handle that. That’s sort of true.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. Speed Index. In the case of performance metrics, we're trying to capture the behavior of a website in terms of speed and construction. Often, construction metrics are useful for diagnosing the cause of changes in speed metrics. Start Render.

Metrics 72

Metrics Website Speed Monitoring 72

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. With Advent of Cyber , you can get started with Cyber Security by learning the basics and completing a new, beginner friendly security exercise every day. Jump to table of contents ?. PerfPlanet Calendar. Advent of Cyber. Infowebica on Twitter.

Design 120

Design Development Programming Website 120

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. 4.22 %usr 38.40 0.42 %sys 9.52

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It’s the gym membership that forces you to exercise. Now, if your house is a mess, a complex web of dependencies; hundreds or thousands of applications, services and platforms; a collaboration network that spans dozens of suppliers; knowledge work that traverses tens of tools… Well, first, welcome to the Global 5000.

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A couple of things worth noting: All of the sites in the leaderboard sites are pretty speedy, so this is NOT a name-and-shame exercise. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred?

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Tim Kadlec, the designer who brought the phrase “performance budget” from the financial world to the tech world, says that a performance budget is an essential tool for incorporating speed as a feature of page design and ensuring that web performance is front and center in website planning from its earliest stages.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. This brings us to the final link in the chain of structural security mitigations: the speed of delivering updates to end-users.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet.

Speed 328

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 328

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Not draining other's bank accounts may be something of an exercise to the reader. ??. Apple could unveil iOS with support for web apps without the need for an app store because web applications are safe by default.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. Mostly we are using a virtual desktop to stay connected to the organization’s network. Any technical glitch such as a network bandwidth issue can impact the output of the whole organization.

Testing 52

Testing Internet Internet Testing Tools 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 7, 2025

My work in the past decade on performance has been an exercise in working backwards from strategy to tactics. They're doing so in an ongoing way, and to the extent that the web is a shitty, underpowered experience on most of the world's devices across most of the world's networks, we are handing our enemies a gift.

Performance 52

Performance Energy Google Strategy 52