The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

The industry’s move to dynamic, multicloud, and hybrid-cloud environments, which produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data, has increased cloud complexity, and brought the need for automation and intelligence, in addition to observability, to the forefront. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Founded in 2015, NWCD is a licensed data center and cloud services provider, based in Ningxia, China. This is our 17th Region globally, and the second in China.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a brief primer on APM and how it has changed for cloud-native environments, and some tips on what to look for in modern APM solutions. In recent years, APM has expanded to encompass cloud-native environments and distributed applications composed of microservices. But what differentiates one APM offering from another?

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019).

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

The rapidly expanding AWS Partner Network (APN) in Korea includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) who are building innovative solutions and services around the AWS cloud. Finally, the Seoul Region brings the benefits of the cloud much closer to home for Korean startups.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2015, the Spring folks already regarded Dynatrace as the gold standard for performance monitoring. Some years ago, I worked closely with the Spring Framework team as a product manager at Pivotal Software.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The growth of Azure cloud computing. Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Making the best use of Azure Functions.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It was called Jellly at the time (mid 2015) but it was an early build of what OctoPerf would become. We quickly figured that the market was quite crowded with Blazemeter spearheading the “JMeter in the cloud” offer. And when we started in 2015, JMeter was undoubtedly the best tool around. What is your business model?

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. ScyllaDB Cloud vs. ScyllaDB On-Premises. Most Popular Cloud Providers for ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB Cloud vs. ScyllaDB On-Premises. ScyllaDB can be run in both in the public cloud and on-premises.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

There is some truth to that, as I do think microservices were over sold as the answer to everything, and I think this may have arisen from vendors who wanted to sell Kubernetes with a simple marketing message that enterprises needed to modernize by using Kubernetes to do cloud native microservices for everything.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases. But by 2015, it was more common to split up monolithic applications into distributed systems. For observability that scales with cloud-native technologies, organizations need an AI-driven observability platform like Dynatrace.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

In 2011, we only had a few releases a year, but by 2015 we were targeting 25 releases a year. The third wave was scaling out, which was done through Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE; our implementation of SRE ), a paradigm we follow where we actually allow more than 800 engineers to work autonomously. Scaling out.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

For nearly fifteen years (~ 2001-2015), network traffic effectively served as a common API for measuring usage, performance, and availability of all applications, links, and clients. In 2012, we anticipated the shifts towards cloud infrastructures and microservices. Interested in experiencing the future of IT management today?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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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., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

My talk is going to feature “Adrian’s Greatest Hits, B-Sides and Re-issues” and I’m going to rerun and comment on talks I’ve given in the past, including some of the original Netflix Architecture content from 2010 and my GigaOM Cloud Trends talk from 2015.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

During our annual Perform event, CEO John Van Siclen explained how several years ago – whilst at a dinner in Linz – we saw the cloud coming, and that it would disrupt everything, meaning monitoring alone would no longer be enough. We’re spearheading the move to the cloud, the disruption, and we want you to continue with us on that journey.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Programmability. Our API was first introduced in 2015 and has since led to great success for our customers in automating their IT operations. Dynatrace news. Move towards BizDevOps : Cover all automation and integration use cases across your organization, not just in the Development department.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

While my move is among the first from the Linux cloud teams, Netflix has had staff in Australia for years (for content, marketing, and the FreeBSD OCA). Back in 2015 we'd have BPF (iovisor) meetups in Santa Clara and most contributors would be there in person, with some having travelled.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. youtube]: [link] [slideshare]: [link] [interesting talks]: [link] [Linux Profiling at Netflix]: /blog/2015-02-27/linux-profiling-at-netflix.html [2014]: /blog/2015-03-03/performance-tuning-linux-instances-on-ec2.html

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. Time flies! Little to no bureaucracy.

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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., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. youtube]: [link] [slideshare]: [link] [interesting talks]: [link] [Linux Profiling at Netflix]: /blog/2015-02-27/linux-profiling-at-netflix.html [2014]: /blog/2015-03-03/performance-tuning-linux-instances-on-ec2.html

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. In addition to established enterprises, government organizations, and rapidly growing startups, AWS also has a vibrant ecosystem in the Nordics, including partners that have built cloud practices and innovative technology solutions on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

Brussels – March 31, 2015 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that the group of European Union (EU) data protection authorities known as the Article 29 Working Party has approved the AWS Data Processing Agreement (DPA), assuring customers that it meets the high standards of EU data protection laws.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. For a more recent example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 This means we can ensure we're always running the latest version of the tools by updating them in one place.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Unfortunately, these default namespace boundaries are not sufficient to prevent container escape, as seen in CVEs like CVE-2015–2925. Our Media Cloud Engineering team wanted to leverage containers for a new platform they were building, called Archer. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API.

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Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Cloud-based online tools generally go with the emulators and simulators on their platform. Then, the best way is to opt for a cloud-based device lab. Now you can run them on the device of your choice on the Testsigma cloud.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. Multiple queries run at the same time will be using different threads and will utilize more than one CPU core. With faster disks (i.e. SSD) we can’t utilize the full potential of IOPS with just one thread.

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