The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. It's a technical issue that's fixable with effort and investment.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 court arguments in the case of EPIC Games vs. Apple (slide image). WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties. Apple's Open Source Claim #. The open source nature of WebKit is indisputable as a legal technicality.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. This broad range of use cases has helped grow WordPress to power almost 40% of the internet.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Another explanation for the lack of support in commercial designs is that security, especially one that is beneficial to the masses, was not critical in the 80s because personal computing and the Internet were still in their nascency, and mass attacks were far and few. However, ISAs have a long life.

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

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. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. Platforms played these user-and-developer hostile games in mobile's early days to dig a moat of OS-exclusive apps.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

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

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

Or a text adventure game. GPT-2 is open source. GPT-3 and GPT-4 are not open source, but are available for free and paid access. Facebook released a previous model, OPT-175B , to the open source community. BLOOM An open source model developed by the BigScience workshop.

Google 139

Google Open Source Programming Code 139

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. Lagging engines taxed developers and businesses, too, and in the era before pervasive open-source engines, the loss of one lineage may have been a deep loss. Browsers are big, big business. WebKit Is No Charity #. Vendors like Apple. ??.

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. A new open-source project called Partytown provides a library that implements a communications layer to make this work.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Tech News Gather

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s some kind of 3D environment that has been obtained from some form of internet iteration. Since it is a new platform, the metaverse is highly likely that it will be the key platform for the metaverse, and this will provide lots of potential for game developers and other app developers. Blockchain.

Mobile 52

Mobile Blockchain Development Open Source 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sentry Sentry is a bit different from the other error tracking tools in that it is open source. Sentry’s dashboard provides you with a ton of useful information such as the stack trace, with source map support, and every URL’s parameters and session information.

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It’s a smart resource to visit when you want to take your dev game to the next level. SitePoint SitePoint’s straightforward tutorial layout makes it among the most-trafficked web development blogs on the internet. Visit website 31. Visit website 36. Visit website 45. Visit website 46.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Still, it leads to a larger file size, which we try to avoid in cases where quality is not a game changer for the project’s value proposition. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Therefore, we can conclude that it is reasonable to raise your store’s game by optimizing it for m-commerce. These may, for instance, include the game and social media app sectors. Alex Husar.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

According to US copyright law, everything published in any form, including on the internet, is automatically copyrighted by the author for the life of its creator, plus 70 years. Even on today’s internet these mechanisms are fragile, complex, change frequently, and are often not well understood by sites whose content is being scraped.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer.

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage.

Performance 112

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 112

Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 25, 2015

Though, one could imagine ancestors reading blog posts from long dead relatives via utilities like the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine. Fear of being publicly corrected prevents a lot of people from blogging or contributing to open source. Now, it’s just a long waiting game until the book is published.

C++ 43

C++ Google Open Source Games 43

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Assets Optimizations.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111