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. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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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. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic. Atomic slot migration. With peak demand of 1.5

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Do not get involved in the blame game ; it won’t help anyone. Use open-source tools like Testsigma , and start automating your happy flows. At any time, only one of the environments is live and serves the production traffic. Let’s say blue is serving the traffic currently. Now Blue goes idle.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. How much money are we talking about? Browsers are big, big business.

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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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O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would be unfortunate if ChatGPT usage is declining because people can’t use it to generate abusive content, but that’s a different article… A more important reason for this decline might be that ChatGPT is no longer the only game in town. There are now many alternative language models.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc.,

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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.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Google and others have rightly pointed out that search drives traffic to sites, which the sites can then monetize as they will, by their own advertising (or advertising in partnership with Google), by subscription, or just by the recognition the creators receive when people find their work. Once that was done, everything else would follow.”

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. You would, of course, not want to use this to send web page resources, but it might be handy for things such as gaming and live video streaming. WebTransport.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle. But who would prefer community-driven open-source products to the one owned by a corporate monster? Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

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Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ). Also, Next.js

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

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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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Large preview ).

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