The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

Traffic 261

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 261

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

For example, the mobile device talked to an API gateway, and that team was not responsible for all the details of the back-end systems. This represents the total number of requests across the network. This refers to the load on your network and servers. They knew a different team supported each step in the process. Saturation.

Automotive 290

Automotive Latency Architecture Mobile 290

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone.

C++ 88

C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

These can be APIs used by your mobile apps or health-check endpoints provided by microservices. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. So stay tuned!

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. trillion by 2027, up from $800 billion in 2021.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 246

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Improvements have been seen across all device categories ranging from TVs to mobiles and tablets. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022. The graphic below (Fig.

Open Source 260

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 260

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

With our IT systems, we’re crafting the Digital Experiences for our customers as they use the digital touch points we offer them, may it be a mobile app, web application, Amazon Alexa skill, ATM, a Check-in Kiosk at the airport, or a TV app. Reason #1: Measure what matters from the right point of view.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy 264

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

Many businesses rely on third-party services, such as payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs), and ticketing systems to get through their day-to-day operations. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2019

But in today’s fast-changing technology world driven by IoT, microservice based architectures, mobile app integration, automation, and containerization, modern businesses are faced with API security issues more than ever. They are, of course, not a complete solution, as they can be intercepted like any other network traffic.

Monitoring 34

Monitoring IoT Tuning Traffic 34

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. On the “Network overview” page, `Host group` filter suggestions are now properly displayed when a management zone is selected. APM-292756). APM-288329). APM-290353). APM-289135).

Operating System 246

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This was a custom built, 3-step pipeline: Capture the production traffic for the desired path(s) Replay the traffic against the two services in the TEST environment Compare and assert for differences It was a self-contained flow that, by design, captured entire requests, and not just the one path we requested.

Latency 241

Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. With most traffic coming from mobile for many of our customers, and the complexity of the “last mile,” do we really need to be troubleshooting core backbone ISP routing paths? Sound easy?

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. It’s no different to saying this person was from Nigeria or this person was on mobile or this person was on a high latency connection. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help. What is RTT?

Latency 244

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 244

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile-first indexing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. They now offer street maps, online advertising, mobile and web content creation, and ecommerce services. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Take an alternative route due to a bad traffic jam! Today’s example comes from Chad Turner, Dynatrace Certified Associate Network Systems Technician at NYCM. NYCM also started rolling out the Dynatrace Mobile App for both their On-Call Teams as well as for their managers. Automating tasks, e.g: At NYCM it is no different.

Artificial Intelligence 172

Artificial Intelligence Mobile Java Processing 172

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. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ). Large preview ).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving. To do that we just put the headline above the author image, and increased the font size on mobile a bit. Investigating The LCP Issue. This shouldn’t take too long.

Google 144

Google Traffic Mobile Website 144

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. "We are preparing for the opening of competition on rails in Finland and at the same time the industry is going through transformation to mobility as a service for both passengers and goods. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Mark Szulyovszky : Would I have thought 3 years ago that we end up building a mobile tech stack on Microsoft’s & Facebook’s open source code, wishing that Google’s and Apple’s clunky and slow middle layer would disappear?

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Quite contrary, this was the era of the 250GB / month cap from Comcast and we could observe clearly that they were throttling Netflix traffic.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The authors quantify the scale of the problem, and note that users have even less viable defence mechanisms than they do on web and mobile platforms. The top 1000 channels from each service are analysed using a custom-built crawling engine, and traffic is intercepted where possible using mitmproxy. How they did it. The last word.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach. Call it convenience or anything else — people are consuming content on their mobile phones more than their desktops and this will only increase in the near future. According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Talking through the map, we start with an end user who can choose a web app or a mobile app. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

Engineering 136

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The CAS and LGS cover much of the innovations that we have previously presented in our tech blogs ( per-title , mobile encodes , per-shot , optimized 4K encoding , etc.). For the streaming use case, the generated videos are deployed to our content delivery network (CDN) for Netflix members to consume.

Processing 238

Processing Media Latency Innovation 238

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Earth Networks recently launched a new lightning proximity feature for their popular WeatherBug app. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks.

Games 113

Games Scalability AWS Database 113

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Typical use cases for a graph database include social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs. Amazon Neptune is a fully-managed graph database service.

Database 166

Database AWS Games Latency 166

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. But Scott continues: Faster networks should fix our performance problems, but so far, they have had an interesting if unintentional impact on the web. But networks are like highways in this way, as Scott shows above. This is.bonkers!

Network 86

Network Speed Traffic Mobile 86

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

AWS 125

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

A few years ago, I directed a neuroscientific research project in which participants were asked to complete transactions on an e-commerce site using mobile devices. Some participants experienced normal speeds, while others experienced load times that were artificially throttled with a 500-millisecond network delay.

Metrics 66

Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Facebook took notice of the 3-second abandonment statistic and declared in August 2017 that information feed updates with slow-loading links will be shown reduced in the newsfeed: “With this update, we’ll soon take into account the estimated load time of a webpage that someone clicks to from any link in News Feed on the mobile app.

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. Here, the idea is that your mobile phone typically has both Wi-Fi and a (4G) cellular connection, so why not use them both at the same time for extra throughput and robustness? Another effort is called MultiPath TCP.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 26, 2021

One thing that jumped out while working on the JavaScript chapter of the Web Almanac was the incredibly high amount of time spent processing JavaScript on the median mobile page where Ember.js dealing with JavaScript when loaded on an emulated mobile device. It’s worth noting: this is only true on mobile. was detected.

Mobile 98

Mobile Traffic Servers Processing 98