InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 66

Architecture Technology Technology Design 66

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. When we merge these two concepts together and present them to the customer, we have the plan selection page (shown above).

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

Performance 110

Performance C++ Architecture Systems 110

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies.

Performance Testing 220

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 99

Engineering Performance Design Scalability 99

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN CDN architecture serves as a blueprint or plan that guides the distribution of CDN provider PoPs. The two fundamentals of a CDN architecture revolve around distribution and capacity. Five Nines availability or 99.999%, also referred to as "the gold standard" significantly reduces downtime (5.26

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Design 89

Design Systems Performance Scalability 89

InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. On the other hand, a hybrid model combines at least one private cloud solution with one or more public clouds to strike an optimal balance between security controls and scalability.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN ‍CDN architecture serves as a blueprint or plan that guides the distribution of CDN provider PoPs. The two fundamentals of a CDN architecture revolve around distribution and capacity. All these elements combined serve as the blueprint of a CDN architecture.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) Watching every moment of content to find the best frames and select them manually takes a lot of time, and this approach is often not scalable. For Visual Search We found that the model was influenced by the text present in the image.

Media 169

Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 169

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

Engineering 185

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 185

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. Grail solves this scalability issue! How often have you spent time decluttering or trying to make sense of the information presented on a dashboard?

Analytics 235

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 235

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. By Jenna Zeigen

Performance 96

Performance Design Scalability Architecture 96

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

InfoQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. By Aditi Gupta

Design 55

Design Development Scalability Architecture 55

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. Several promising ideas were abandoned owing to the outsized work needed to overcome architectural limitations.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. Research has found that 99% of organizations have embraced a multicloud architecture.

DevOps 189

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 189

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 83

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 83

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

InfoQ

APRIL 10, 2024

At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities. As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break.

AWS 71

AWS Architecture Mobile Engineering 71

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Further, legacy custom-developed apps were not built to meet the present-day user experience that HHS clients and partners expect. The team can also focus on developing new cloud-native apps that provide the scalability necessary to deliver reliable services, especially during times of crisis when families need HHS the most.

Government 209

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 209

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. A single request in the tests below consists of one query.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be useful, have utility.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

InfoQ

MAY 13, 2022

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

Cloud 66

Cloud Architecture Scalability Network 66

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications.

Open Source 183

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. How do you make it scalable?

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

In the future posts, we will do an architectural deep dive into the several components of Netflix Drive. To support such use cases, access control at the user workspace and project workspace granularity is extremely important for presenting a globally consistent view of pertinent data to these artists.

Media 174

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 174