The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. High Level Design.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. That’s because of the heterogeneity of the data their environments generate and the limitations of the systems they rely on to analyze this information. All of these factors challenge DevOps maturity.

DevOps 177

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 177

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. 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.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely.

Analytics 194

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 194

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Understanding complex systems Causal AI holds great importance for achieving full-stack observability in complex systems. More generally, causal AI can contribute to explainable and fair AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence 201

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 201

All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications. Mobile Backend Serverless Reference Architecture. Real-time File Processing Serverless Reference Architecture. " about teletext.io

Lambda 107

Lambda Serverless AWS Architecture 107

All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications. Mobile Backend Serverless Reference Architecture. Real-time File Processing Serverless Reference Architecture. " about teletext.io

Lambda 105

Lambda Serverless AWS Architecture 105

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.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2].

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Achieving this from a typical enterprise’s various apps, systems, and configurations is the beginning of the observability journey and, therefore, critical to get right. All this is easier said than done because: Kubernetes-based dynamic architecture is becoming the norm. Flexible rules cover default and edge-case business needs.

Storage 220

Storage Government Network Infrastructure 220

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Container orchestration is a process that automates the deployment and management of containerized applications and services at scale.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 179

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 337

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. As a result, there can be pressure to begin modernizing a part of the system that will have a clear business impact.

Architecture 52

Architecture Infrastructure Technology Technology 52

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. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

AWS 240

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 240

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. By automating workflows, teams throughout the organization can eliminate manual processes and improve outcomes.

Efficiency 269

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 269

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. Dynatrace OneAgent has been able to detect TIBCO EMS processes out-of-the-box for some time already. Synchronous storage size.

Storage 132

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 132

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. OpenTelemetry reference architecture. OTel is a specialized protocol for collecting telemetry data and exporting it to a target system.

Open Source 212

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 212

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. These tools account for differences among fab locations and fabrication processes.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But legacy, custom software can often prevent systems from working together, ultimately hindering growth. An open approach enables technologies to interoperate, whereas proprietary, legacy systems often create vendor lock-in and prevent interoperability and data integration. The platform approach vs. the best-of-breed approach.

Innovation 190

Innovation Software Software Cloud 190

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. These priorities tend to push the architecture to the back burner.

Software Architecture 40

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 40

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. These priorities tend to push the architecture to the back burner.

Software Architecture 40

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 40

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment. Teams face siloed processes and toolsets, vast volumes of data, and redundant manual tasks. As organizations adopt more AI technologies, the associated costs are skyrocketing.

Performance 179

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 179

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs.

AWS 205

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 205

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. On the other hand, these optimizations themselves need to be sufficiently inexpensive to justify their own processing cost over the gains they bring.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation. To enable volume expansion, you need to delete the storage class and enable it again. last-applied-configuration={"apiVersion":"storage.k8s.io/v1","kind":"StorageClass","metadata":{"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"false"},"name":"io1"},"parameters":{"fsType":"ext4","io

AWS 89

AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). A multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) system ensures multiple users can access the same data simultaneously without conflicts or data loss.

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

Efficiency 259

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 259