The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. It also needs to handle third-party integration with Google Drive, making copies of PDFs with watermarks specific to each recipient, adding password protection, creating revocable links, generating thumbnails, and sending emails and push notifications.

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Traffic Java Latency Google 163

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. Subsetting was also top of mind after reading a recent ACM paper published by Google.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 174

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders.

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Big Data Government Processing Analytics 255

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. This is the outbound data traffic without any compression method Here we can see data transmitted is around 2.33MB/s: Now, I’ve enabled zstd compression algorithm in both the server and client client = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://user:pwd@xx.xx.xx.xx:27017/?

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 130

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. Look at your traffic stats, load stats and render stats to better understand the shape of your site and how visitors are using it. We are not our end users. We need to build a performance culture.

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Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. According to Google, an INP of 200 milliseconds or less is ideal. Not sure what INP means or why it matters? for mobile.

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 88

DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

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Engineering Scalability Systems Traffic 245

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency. Network Latency. Connection time.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. TLS, TCP, and QUIC handshake durations ( Large preview ). itself directly.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. latency, startup, mocking, etc.) Reduction of operational costs” was the No. Figure 13.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 93

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. However, when the time comes for resources to be requested, there can be latency in the time it takes to for that code to start back up. The time it takes between an action and a response is latency.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. What does Starlink and Reduced Latency have to do with me?

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. The fundamental principles at play include evenly distributing the workload among servers for better application performance and redirecting client requests to nearby servers to reduce latency.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

This is similar to the type of redirect used if you’ve registered multiple domains and you want to direct all of your traffic to your primary URL. In all of these instances, you should identify which URL garners the most traffic and then configure an HTTP 301 -type redirect for all of the lesser-used URLs to the most-trafficked.

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Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 54

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

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Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 85

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available. Spinning up more servers just won’t cut it.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. DSPs need to find out the best route to an impression, and will steer traffic towards the best pricing available. Spinning up more servers just won’t cut it.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is. Google uses mobile-friendly features of websites as a ranking factor. Prioritize browser testing based on usage, market demand, highest traffic.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40