The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. How does it work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 175

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Over the last few years, more and more projects are using video as an integral part of the application. However, it all goes sideways when there are issues related to the video playback. Doug Sillars. 2021-02-15T15:00:00+00:00. Real-World Data.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application. Finally, what were they building?

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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

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DZone

JUNE 26, 2019

Visual content like infographics, images, animations, and videos attract website visitors because people find this type of content more engaging and interesting.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

I showed the iPhone to people at Netflix, as it had excellent quality video playback, but they werent interested. At that time YouTube was primarily very short low quality videos, and Netflix average viewing time was over 30 minutes of high qualityvideo. I use mine most days to watch videos. The code is still up on github.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Many approaches to distributed tracing involve setting a sample rate, such as 5%, and then only tracing that percentage of request traffic. In particular, they need to be able to count on Edgar having data about their issue.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Turn off the tools you no longer need. Take advantage of Dynatrace University.

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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 DevOps 173

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This video (below) illustrates my experience. Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

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. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Data sharding completely based on the asset type may have created the wide rows considering some types like VIDEO may have many more assets compared to others like TEXT. Error Handling Errors are part of software development.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

More than half of our critical streaming video services are now running on JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, so it’s a good time to talk about our experience and the benefits we’ve seen. Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second.

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Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 233

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I selfishly look at my blog posts (like this one) and see whether LinkedIn, or Twitter, drove more traffic! If we see an issue, or more importantly if Davis (The Dynatrace AI engine) picks up a reduction in traffic or an increase in errors, we are quickly able to pinpoint why and fix it.

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Google Analytics Traffic Operating System 202

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. To see these principles in action, check out our videos about implementing service-level objectives. So how can teams start implementing SLOs?

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5 They'll learn a lot and love you even more. 300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. DevOps teams can analyze user behavior analytics and, with Dynatrace Session Replay, video-like replay of individual user sessions. DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Session replay is a real user monitoring technology that creates video-like recordings — or snapshots — of how users navigate and interact with a company’s website or mobile application. Traffic control to choose the percentage of recorded visitor sessions. URL exclusion to exclude pages and views from being recorded.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) Most applications in content and studio engineering at Netflix deal with assets; such as videos, images, text, etc. are stored in secure storage layers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

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Traffic Java Latency Google 163

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?

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Think curbside delivery for groceries, video conferencing for work and school, and telemedicine for doctor visits. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version.

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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".

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Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

This allows local councils to keep certain streets well lit, to accommodate high foot traffic, bring on lighting during adverse weather, when ambient light dims to a dangerous level, or even turn lighting down, for example in an industrial estate, where there are no people. Cloud enables video analytics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, you can learn how Dynatrace advances mobile DevOps in this video: Mobile DevOps crash and error analysis. Dynatrace takes this data up another notch by providing a video replay of that session via a capability called Session Replay , which practitioners can turn on optionally per application.

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Mobile DevOps Monitoring Traffic 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.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. In North America, Safari users represent almost one-third of all traffic.) A correlation chart gives you a histogram view of all your user traffic, broken out into cohorts based on performance metrics, such as INP.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 120

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? What about UHD video? The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app. Unsurprisingly, the more network traffic and hence the more you’re using the radio, the more power 5G consumes. energy consumption).

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Client Applications We deal with two classes of client application updates.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 202

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.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 110