The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. are you logged in?

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method).

Latency 299

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 299

DZone

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Affiliate programs are an arrangement through which an online merchant sends traffic to a website and is paid accordingly. The merchants promote the products of the websites via writing an article, creating a video explaining the benefits of using the product, promoting through websites or banners, or via any other legal medium.

Programming 235

Programming Development Website Traffic 235

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable. The Apdex score of 0.85

Latency 189

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 189

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable. The Apdex score of 0.85

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 239

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 239

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

Latency 242

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

Social Media 141

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 141

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. ” @mjpt777 : "Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50 times speedup in performance".

Internet 126

Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

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). Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. Every month, we run millions of containers on thousands of machines on Titus, serving hundreds of internal applications and customers.

Cache 260

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 260

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content. streaming sticks and boxes) or enable functionality within a TV (e.g.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021?

Mobile 136

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 136

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). What is a private 5G network?

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

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. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

InfoQ

MARCH 24, 2020

Ryan Landry, the senior director for TechOps at Fastly, has shared how network automation enables them to manage traffic peaks during popular live-streamed events such as the Super Bowl LIV.

Network 41

Network Traffic Tuning Programming 41

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 117

Games Scalability AWS Database 117

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The importance of the network. AWS has come to support many different workloads; from high-volume transaction processing to video transcoding at scale, from high-performance parallel computing to massive web site traffic. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network. No gatekeepers.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

Cache 97

Cache Mobile Google Network 97

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Factors such as the person’s current network connection and the general speed of the corresponding webpage will be considered. Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement.

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Across the board, we’ve seen sales increases because of our improved ranking, with 20% more organic traffic being driven to our site and 14% more page views.". More recently, Pinterest shared that rebuilding their site with performance in mind resulted in a 15% increase in organic search traffic. Use compression. For lower CLS.

Performance 96

Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

and MQTT 5 ensures that RabbitMQ can interoperate seamlessly within our growingly networked world, establishing itself as a multipurpose instrument in today’s vast technological landscape. Using a message queue approach, RabbitMQ adeptly handles surges in traffic through data queuing. Can RabbitMQ handle streaming data?

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. 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.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic. It’s like a well-maintained highway where you can cruise without any traffic jams.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. These files are only used client-side.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

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 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Networking. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 53

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Networking. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow.

Speed 136

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 136

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Developers use content delivery networks to reduce server load and deliver website content fast.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.Â

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic? That’s where rules come in. What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Network 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. An example hypotheses to be tested is that users should still be able to stream video even if the bookmarking service (which remembers their last watched location in a video) is down.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT is used in sensitive data such as your video footages via CCTVs or your personal health data etc. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89