The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice. It was a Node.js

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Each systems begins from a cold start unless explicitly stated otherwise in the results. VLDB’19. Key findings.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Bottleneck Analysis.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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John McCalpin

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. In “Cache” mode, MCDRAM memory is used as an L3 cache for the main DDR4 memory. numactl).

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? The M/M/1 queue will show us a required trade-off among (a) allowing unscheduled task arrivals, (b) minimizing latency, and (c) maximizing throughput.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Market participants.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. In fact, before we even had the word microservices in our lexicon, back when it was just good old-fashioned service-oriented architecture, we were talking about data: how to access it, where it lives, who “owns” it. How do you do that effectively?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Cache-Headers missing? If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. What changed in PageSpeed 5.0?

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. Marken Architecture Marken’s architecture diagram is as follows. Marken Architecture Marken’s architecture diagram is as follows. We do that by excluding the following from all queries in our system.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems. The system should deliver performance of tens of thousands messages per second even on clusters of minimal size.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.Â

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm). McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems”.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context. Monitoring is capturing and displaying data, whereas observability can discern system health by analyzing its inputs and outputs.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While dynamic serving provides simplicity in implementation, it imposes significant time costs due to the computational resources required to generate the pages and the latency involved in serving these pages to users at distant locations. These edge servers are distributed in data centers across the globe.

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