The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection. Media is split into many small segments (chunks) and each chunk contains a few seconds of playback data.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. On December 9, 2021, the first indicators of the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell) began reverberating worldwide.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. What's changed ?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

Recently, after an unusual year for most, Dynatrace was joined by Grant Hedley, from Laithwaite’s, and a range of customers and prospects from the financial services and media industries for a return to normality – Drinking wine. Dynatrace news. The primary theme of the event was transforming faster with automation and AI.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 26, 2025

From dynamic UI/UX to seamless social media integration, businesses must adapt their web presence to meet Gen Zs evolving expectations. Their lives revolve around smart gadgets, high-speed internet, and state-of-the-art applications. To members of this generation, technology functions as a fundamental requirement.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

With Greenplum’s ability to ingest large volumes of data at high speeds, it makes this database a powerful tool for smart applications that need to interact intelligently based on an unlimited number of unique scenarios. Greenplum is a great database choice for applications looking to mimic human abilities through smart machines.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Page slowdowns can cause as much damage as downtime While Amazon and other big players take pains to avoid outages, these companies also go to great effort to manage the day-to-day performance – in terms of page speed and user experience – of their sites.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace Notebooks is an interactive data exploration interface that enables users to collaborate using code, text, and rich media to build, evaluate, and share insights. Browse data: Advanced exploration using DQL Once analysts discover the data they’re interested in, the next step is to refine the search and share results.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether answering questions on social media, helping someone with a proposal for a conference talk, or simply being welcoming and kind to newcomers, webperf folks are some of the most generous people you could ever hope to find. Sergey currently works as a Speed Manager at Cloudflare.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

A group of companies formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) with the goal of creating a modern, royalty-free video codec that would be widely adopted and supported by a plethora of devices. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Dynatrace news. The business said it wanted to increase the adoption of the new app vs the existing app.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. There is a solution though!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

However, building data grid views with performance, speed, and user experience in mind can be a particularly daunting task. You have to figure out scrolling, media queries, font sizes, scaling, whether to omit some parts of the data, and so on. This can be especially complicated with data containing very many columns.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. Redis has found a huge market share across the travel and hospitality, community forums, social media, SaaS, and ecommerce industries to name just a few. Redis Strings Use Cases.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

Windows computers around the world encountered blue-screens-of-death and boot loops, causing outages for hospitals, airlines, banks, grocery stores, media broadcasters, and more. Google and Meta already rely on eBPF to detect and stop bad actors in their fleet, thanks to eBPF's speed, deep visibility, and safety guarantees.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Improve SSO deployment automation to enable faster rollbacks [Completed] We’ve updated our automated deployment stacks to ensure consistent versioning across all our environments as well as enhancing our auto-scaling mechanisms to speed up recovery, should this ever be necessary again. Hopefully never.) This has been completed.

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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. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Fixes To Common Problems. Conclusion.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics. If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. Additionally, serverless architecture allows easy integration with other services and tools, such as databases and storage, which can speed up the development process.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

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Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

For example, a media organization may be interested in tracking Time to Interactive because its site relies on third-party advertising for revenue, while an ecommerce business might want to dig deeper into First Meaningful Paint so it can ensure that customers can quickly take action to purchase an item. Speed Index. Why track it?

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. While the Speed Update won’t be in effect until July 2018, there are steps that companies can take now to make sure they are not penalized.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Assets Optimization Whatever media assets you have on-site, for goodness sake optimize them. will get you nowhere.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. This is an important content performance metric, as it almost always negatively correlated with speed.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! The read speed is too slow, which usually is a sign of IO congestion.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. It can be combined with CSS media queries to select the appropriate image for the width of the screen. Let’s update our code example: <img src="image-280.png".

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. It provides a comprehensive support of media queries (e.g. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. Large preview ).

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best. However, the subscriptions department for that same media site might say Page A is terrible because they want people to be able to click the “buy a subscription” call to action button.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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