The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 216

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen how poor application performance can impact business bottom lines and lead to lost revenue for many organizations, as laid out in our recent blog post about digital experience. by Google Core Web Vitals is?certainly?valuable,?it?leaves Google Search Console?

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Google Metrics Monitoring Network 234

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Here are some of the key Greenplum advantages that can help you improve your database performance: High Performance.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 108

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. You also might be required to capture syslog messages from cloud services on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud related to resource provisioning, scaling, and security events.

Infrastructure 225

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 225

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

As monolithic applications have given way to cloud-connected microservices that perform distinct functions, containerized environments, such as the Kubernetes platform, have become the framework of choice. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

Traffic 248

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 248

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When it comes to mobile monitoring, everyone has their own point of view… Mobile is not a single technology: it involves different development teams handling Android and iOS apps, performance engineering teams, cloud operations, and marketing. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring?

Analytics 212

Analytics Mobile Performance Monitoring 212

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

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Performance C++ Google Retail 145

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. Unless a client hires you to specifically improve the performance of one page, you’ll need a broad view of the whole site or application. against many other metrics as other milestones (except CLS) are network-bound and TBT is CPU-bound.

Speed 328

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 328

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Simple network calls. Potential for decreased reliability.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Simple network calls. Potential for decreased reliability.

Architecture 245

Architecture Software Software Development 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 253

DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. There was significant disruption of commonly used services like YouTube and Gmail, as well as Google-hosted applications like Snapchat. Previously we've written about having hard conversations with cloud providers.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 129

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 257

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. The managed service runs on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Networking. Kubernetes provides a basic networking model.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to Forrester Research, the COVID-19 pandemic fueled investment in “hyperscaler public clouds”—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. According to a data from Dimensional Research, 95% of respondents say visibility problems have prompted an application or network performance issue.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 229

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations. Operations analytics ensures IT systems perform as expected. NoSQL database.

Analytics 195

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 195

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

In a Dynatrace Perform 2024 session, Kristof Renders, director of innovation services, discussed how a stronger FinOps strategy coupled with observability can make a significant difference in helping teams to keep spiraling infrastructure costs under control and manage cloud spending. Wrong-sized resources. Unnecessary data transfer.

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 239

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. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This multinational information technology service and consulting company was asked to help a global automotive manufacturer with the management goal of measuring service flow performance. This represents the total number of requests across the network. This refers to the load on your network and servers. Saturation.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

But managing the deployment, modification, networking, and scaling of multiple containers can quickly outstrip the capabilities of development and operations teams. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. How does container orchestration work?

Infrastructure 192

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 192

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The components of partitioned applications generally communicate over a network call. 5 challenges to achieving observability at scale. Read eBook now!

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 232

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Find and prevent application performance risks A major challenge for DevOps and security teams is responding to outages or poor application performance fast enough to maintain normal service. It should also be possible to analyze data in context to proactively address events, optimize performance, and remediate issues in real time.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Architecture Cloud 186

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 194

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 10, 2023

Well, the short answer is: From a purely performance-facing point of view, document.write() itself isn’t that special or unique. As well as exhibiting unpredictable and buggy behaviour as keenly stressed in the MDN and Google articles , document.write() is slow. You may have also seen that there’s very little explanation as to why.

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Google Network Performance Availability 288

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Performance : Is the interaction as seamless and fast as possible, or does the user always have to wait to achieve their goal? Soft fails and speedbumps. User experience score.

Mobile 224

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 224

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner. After deployment, IT teams can also optimize the software and supporting hardware to ensure high performance.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 188

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

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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Design Education Google Internet 54

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 100