The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Unbundling the Data Warehouse: The Case for Independent Storage Recording Speaker : Jason Reid (Co-founder & Head of Product at Tabular) Summary : Unbundling a data warehouse means splitting it into constituent and modular components that interact via open standard interfaces. Until next time!

Data Engineering 206

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

During our testing using the storage optimized EC2 instances (I3.2xlarge) we noticed that we were able to perform over 200K IOPS of 1K byte items thus meeting our throughput goals with latency rarely exceeding 1 millisecond. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. There are a few more quotes.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. There are more quotes, more everything.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. 16) our company users access the internet from.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Service Workers. Application shell architecture. Let’s look at each one. created: new Date().getTime()

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 121

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. PWA Feature Detector.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally! Additionally.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. All popular browsers have an embedded accessible focus by default (you might have seen this bold blue frame around input fields, dropdowns, buttons, and links in Google Chrome).

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The choice for the search box from Bing was driven by that it was very easy to setup and it was free, where Google Site Search asked for $100/year. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

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). Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Converging Views. Trusted Types.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Google Docs, Trello, …). Local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, but the data is also synchronised across all the devices on which a user works. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. I’m all in :). The rock or the hard place?

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. Offsite Storage It’s highly recommended to copy all the backup methods to another place, like the cloud or an external file server, so in case of host failure or data center failure, you have another copy. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.),

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 81

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. For example, if you were planning to store your files in AWS S3, you’d want to do the following, which is very similar to the process of storing files with Google Cloud, Azure, Backblaze, or similar competing services. Recommended Reading.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 77

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. million Google Play Store applications, followed by 1.96 By 2025, the person who orders the product will first be the person who touches it. IoT Test Automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 13, 2016

I am always on a plane without internet and not much to do. Up until now I’ve been using my iPad for watching the few movies I purchased from Google Play because Google Play lets you watch offline. The problem with this is my iPad doesn’t have a lot of storage space and can’t keep me entertained on a six or more hour flight.

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Entertainment Google Internet Internet 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. A compressed photo will take less time to download from the Internet than a full-size photo but should maintain the same quality level.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

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.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand. Google contacts? 8 gigabytes) for $1.

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Storage Internet Internet Mobile 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

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Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. There are two main reasons why people keep mobile browsers installed in their system even after storage issues. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is!

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

They are acquired in a mix of ways: in-the-box in the C++ compiler, optional downloads, third-party products, and some you need to google around to discover. Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. They are a mix of static tools, dynamic tools, compiler switches, libraries, and language features.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Internet presence today is more than necessary (if there is any such thing) in post covid times. Alternatives today such as Google Meet do not even require an installation hence there is no trouble in switching from A to B. This includes the design principles, server communications or data transfers and storage.

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Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Vikas left and co-founded Sonoa systems, which later became Apigee which is now part of Google Cloud.

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