The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While we were able to put out the immediate fire by disabling the newly created alerts, this incident raised some critical concerns around the scalability of our alerting system. It became clear to us that we needed to solve the scalability problem with a fundamentally different approach. OK, Results?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In PACELC terms we choose PC/EC and have the same level of availability for writes of our previous system while improving our theoretical availability for reads. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

These facts are managed and made available by services like viewing history or video metadata services outside of Axion. The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. All these capabilities are available to customers at no additional charge, and maintain open-source Redis compatibility. Building upon Redis.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Currently, only metrics for individual nodes are available. What’s next.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

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. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. The workflow is initiated. PSNR and SSIM) is complete.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive aims to solve this problem of exposing different namespaces and attaching appropriate access control to help build a scalable, performant, globally distributed platform for storing and retrieving pertinent assets. It exposes a file/folder interface for applications to save their data and an API interface for control operations.

Media 174

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 174

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., One thing they all had in common is an evaluation using some kind of simulation of the expected behaviour of NVDIMMs, because the real thing wasn’t yet available. The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM.

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Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 137

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. Related Articles.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. MongoDB replica sets enable data redundancy and automatic failover, setting the stage (there’s that term again) for high availability. For starters, MongoDB Community lacks the advanced security features available in MongoDB Enterprise.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. Citrix latency represents the end-to-end “screen lag” experienced by a server’s users.

Latency 118

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 118

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. It provides support for a range of message protocols, buffering, and scalable message distribution to downstream services.

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IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. are divided. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. For cost calculations, the costs are a combination of compute costs, storage costs, data scan costs, and software license costs. Key findings. Query restrictions. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. This can significantly elevate user satisfaction and engagement.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). These results are possible for anyone given a scalable hardware solution.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Read/Write latency. Read/Write scalability.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. Instead of querying objects from the IMDG and analyzing them in the client, applications can now simply run this analysis within the IMDG itself using APIs available in ScaleOut StateServer Pro.

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Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. Instead of querying objects from the IMDG and analyzing them in the client, applications can now simply run this analysis within the IMDG itself using APIs available in ScaleOut StateServer Pro.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. .

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121