The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

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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., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. ” Java.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities. Amongst other things, HPC is becoming more cloud centric, and blending with both quantum computing, and AI/ML. My own consulting work is initially in two areas.

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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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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It's HighScalability time: Isn't inetd a better comp? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. It has 39 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Hardware was outdated. Dynatrace news. Sound easy?

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). km university campus.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

Need cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". It's HighScalability time: Solar system? Nope, the beauty is in your head— neural art. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. More still, very little of that downtime was related to the SAP cloud platform. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. " Hemnet. Hemnet is Sweden's largest real estate listings site with more than 2.8

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Our Media Cloud Engineering team wanted to leverage containers for a new platform they were building, called Archer. The purpose of this filesystem is to provide access to our content for a variety of encoding tools. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. New devices will launch more rigorously in the near future and you would always find yourself struggling to keep your hardware up to the minute. Why Does Cloud Testing Make Sense?

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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. But I'm not completely sure.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

There’s no denying that the Web of Things community has gone crazy over matter since its release late in 2019. Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. The global home automation market is projected to grow from $72.30 in forecast period.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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. But I'm not completely sure.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. " package.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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. But I'm not completely sure.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al.,

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In 2019, YouTube had to settle with the FTC for a $170 million fine for selling ads targeting children. Until we acknowledge that hardware put in a home is different from a cloud service, we will never get it right. Children make identity and privacy especially tricky. About 40% of all households have a child.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. VLDB’19. Be careful what you ask for (materialize).

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Cloud Deployments. Can be deployed on any cloud provider, with a variety of PostgreSQL hosting solutions available. So Which Is Best?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Parsing and executing times vary significantly depending on the hardware of a device. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Also check DNS Performance comparison and Cloud Peformance Comparison.

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