The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" End-user connection speed If you live in an urban centre, you may enjoy connection speeds of 150 Mbps or more.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Deep learning models can take days or weeks to train, so even modest improvements here make a huge difference in the speed at which new models can be developed and evaluated. MXNet can consume as little as 4 GB of memory when serving deep networks with as many as 1000 layers.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. The game is over!” It may be that artificial general intelligence is a far more significant challenge than taking task-based models and increasing data, speed, and number of tasks.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day. Using the AWS Cloud, Supercell is able to reduce the risk and cost of failure in developing new games.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. Why would we want to live migrate web workers? The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This device to device messaging supported early phone-to-TV communication in support of games like Triviaverse, and it’s the messaging foundation for our Companion Mode as TVs and phones communicate back and forth. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I propose four key ingredients: Definition: What is "performance" beyond page speed? Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. It is observed that when the layout is changed from landscape to portrait during the game then the application crashes unexpectedly. The iOS app should work well on the networks of different bandwidths, speeds, data transfer rates, etc.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. In fact, each key needs to be available at only three points in the network: the AWS EC2 instance that is the client of the volume, the primary copy, and the replica copy.

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VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. In real-life scenarios, think of online gaming. Low latency ensures your commands are swiftly reflected in the game, making your gaming experience responsive and immersive.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

This enables the browser to get ahead of the game and do more work in parallel, decreasing the overall load time. This typically happens once per server and takes up valuable time — especially if the server is very distant from the browser and network latency is high. When Should I Use dns-prefetch ? When Should I Use prefetch ?

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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 per GB respectively.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Parameters that are measured during performance testing ( for mobile ) include – speed, memory consumption, battery life, data transfer, etc. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

For example, baseball fans want to know as soon as their favorite team player hits a home run, so they can watch a video replay and catch the rest of the game. Customers tell us SNS Mobile Push offers lower costs and operational burden, in addition to powerful scale and speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection. Most important, though, is having a performance game plan that is served by the tools.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Networks: We have accessibility to different speeds of mobile networks on devices. All of these networks have different data speeds and therefore application experience will differ accordingly. Testing should ensure that the application experience is acceptable on all types of network speeds.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It could just as well be some sort of game-based UI with thousands of interactions. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data. Preconnect network connections , so browsers have a hint for other domains they might need to connect to. Large preview ) The bottom line: Optimize those long tasks!

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Tech News Gather

JANUARY 29, 2024

The application has an official purpose and has Curacao license for electronic games No. 8048/JAZ2016-065, which guarantees compliance with the rules of fair and safe gaming. An excellent functional mobile application Mostbet provides a high-speed option for placing bets. App version 5.1.1 Android); 2.7 (iOS) iOS) App size 20.7

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Introduction With the recent rollout of the 5G network across the world, it is ensured that the mobile industry will revolutionize and the way we interact will completely change. With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

If a problem calls for a shiny new technique, or a large, branching neural network, someone on your team needs to handle that. Only the larger shops have the bandwidth to really bring someone up to speed. ML models only see numbers, so machine learning is a numbers-in, numbers-out game.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To understand the market and this massive growth in applications, you’ll need a modern performance testing platform that will ensure you can test streaming API-based and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types. The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. 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.

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. This is playing out now with video conferencing, screen-sharing , and streamed gaming (e.g. high-color image raster.

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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 ). . Software as a Service (SaaS).

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 court arguments in the case of EPIC Games vs. Apple (slide image). For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

If your mobile app is some arcade game security testing is probably of a minimum priority. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. A tester needs to always keep in mind that a mobile device does not stay in a single place like a desktop and is neither connected to superfast broadband networks such as optical fibres.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For example, in a fixed height mobile menu or a single page app or game trying to fill no more than the available viewport height. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes.

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Rigor

JANUARY 25, 2018

From Facebook reworking their News Feed (again) to show fewer posts from publishers to Google’s Speed Update including mobile load time in search rankings , the digital publishing industry has a lot to grapple with these days. I mentioned Google’s Speed Update earlier. Change is a constant for digital publishers.

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