The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. It exports any pre-instrumented metrics for JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization as well as custom metrics to the Dynatrace Metrics API v2. Dynatrace news. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

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Metrics Latency Java Cache 213

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. In this testing strategy, we execute a copy (replay) of production traffic against a system’s existing and new versions to perform relevant validations. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. One of the powerful workflows to leverage is continuous release validation.

AWS 252

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 252

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. It exports any pre-instrumented metrics for JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization as well as custom metrics to the Dynatrace Metrics API v2. Dynatrace news. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. It exports any pre-instrumented metrics for JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization as well as custom metrics to the Dynatrace Metrics API v2. Dynatrace news. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. 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.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. 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.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

We now explore each of these components individually, while highlighting the nuances of the data pipeline and pre-processing. Some features (as an example) include Device Type ID, SDK Version, Buffer Sizes, Cache Capacities, UI resolution, Chipset Manufacturer and Brand. Too high allocations may fail and restrict system processes.

Big Data 179

Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 179

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 226

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. 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.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache. com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

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.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Examples of this might be, expecting that the HTML is fully static, such that we can cache it downstream in some deterministic manner — “partially dynamic” HTML bodies are much more likely to be handled incorrectly by caching logic. In this case, we can’t expect each layer could/should process and inject HTML content.

Servers 93

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

Microarchitectural state of interest includes data and instruction caches, TLBs, branch predictors, instruction- and data-prefetcher state machines, and DRAM row buffers. There are two strategies for this: some classes of resource (e.g. So these on-core caches must be flushed on a domain switch.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sharing is caring caching. Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. For example, balance utilisation across all data centers, or optimise for network latency.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. Therefore, there might be cases where your system could experience a downtime during the migration process. How does vendor lock-in occur?It's

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Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. A technique called process tracing was employed to try and recover "a record of participant data acquisition, situation assessment, knowledge activation, expectations, intentions, and actions as the case unfolds over time."

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63