The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The underlying foundation of a workload within this environment is its ability to utilize computing resources and produce outputs based on given inputs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. A feature that enables you to present log data in a filterable table that is easy to work with. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes. These systems enable vast amounts of data to be spread over multiple nodes, allowing for simultaneous access and boosting processing efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. Over the years, the system expanded to support various new use cases.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 116

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. During our initial consultations, it was clear that developers preferred prioritizing product work over security or infrastructure improvements.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. These optimizations ensure that your CDN can handle growing user demands while maintaining fast and efficient content delivery.Â

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. These optimizations ensure that your CDN can handle growing user demands while maintaining fast and efficient content delivery. Here are a few examples.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Infrastructure Optimization. The second example was around web-server threads, which turned out that the team ran with default settings for Apache (200 worker threads) which was too low for the traffic the government agencies are receiving during business hours.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. Large preview ). A sneak peek into Hydrogen’s online integrated development environment.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

As a result, we are risk averse in decision making and actively mitigate the probability of purchasing ads that are not efficiently attracting new members. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. In advertising, the treatments (the ads that we purchase) have a direct monetary cost to Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Instead, we provide them with delightfully usable ML infrastructure that they can use to manage a project’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Instead, we provide them with delightfully usable ML infrastructure that they can use to manage a project’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

COM201 Being ethical in tech: Sustainability tips for work and life — no video, but here is a video of Aerin Booth presenting an earlier version of the talk. Good example, well presented interesting new material. Engaging presentation on an important topic, with some good advice on optimizing ML workloads.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

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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. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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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. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

For this article, I primarily rely on insights gained from analyzing data presented using the Core Web Vitals Technology Report. The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. On the other hand, the ratios of good origins are not weighted.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 128

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. The interconnections between nodes and the rest of the system makes it possible to communicate and share data efficiently. Blockchain is a good example of this. Three-Tier. Reliability.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management. More modern tools can provide runtime insights into certain platforms, like Kubernetes or containers, but are still limited in their ability to detect which libraries are actually used vs. those that are present, but unused.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

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. In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions.

Lambda 189

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Source: FileFlex. Cost-Saver.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?”

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) Depending on the open source database you are moving to, there are tools such as mysqldump and pg_dump that efficiently extract data and transform it to make this process easier and ensure seamless integration in the new environment.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 The dark mode is a significant consideration of every web development at present. So, by cutting down the repetitive and time-consuming tasks, businesses can improve companies’ efficiency and productivity.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59