The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated In the Growth Engineering team, we refer to this as the top of the signup funnel. For more background on the signup funnel and Growth Engineering’s role in the signup funnel, please read our initial post on the topic: Growth Engineering at Netflix? Accelerating Innovation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. This is needed to collect messages across your systems because many different types of devices and applications can produce logs in the syslog format.

Open Source 206

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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. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Media Feature Storage: Amber Storage Media feature computation tends to be expensive and time-consuming. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns. Figure 2 - a series of frame match cuts from Wednesday.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We have built an internal system that allows someone to perform in-video search across the entire Netflix video catalog, and we’d like to share our experience in building this system. Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The newly introduced VPC Flow Logs for Transit Gateway service brings a new network dimension to application monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Networking.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. Lost efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Stop worrying about log data ingest and storage — start creating value instead. And this expansion shows no sign of slowing down.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. It uses a hash table to manage these pairs, divided into fixed-size buckets with linked lists for key-value storage. High data availability is achieved.

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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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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. The core component in Anna v11 is a monitoring system & policy engine that together enable workload-responsiveness and adaptability. As you can imagine, that was unreasonably expensive.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

The decision to ban competing browser engines is as old as iOS, but Apple has only attempted to explain itself in recent years. Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Apple's Arguments #.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Each service comes with zero-configuration, automatic instance detection, continuous data capture in context, and what’s most important – thanks to our AI engine Davis – is each service provides answers, not just data. AWS Storage Gateway.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

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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. These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. For engineers, instead of whodunit, the question is often “what failed and why?” The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. What is Edgar?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As the number of 4K titles in our catalog continues to grow and more devices support the premium features, we expect these video streams to have an increasing impact on our members and the network. The fixed-bitrate ladder starts at 560 kbps which may be too high for some cellular networks. shot-optimized encoding and 4K VMAF model ?—?and

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations everywhere are adopting site reliability engineering (SRE) to cope with the growing complexity of hybrid and cloud-native environments. Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Regular Dynatrace Managed deployments can work seamlessly when a maximum of two nodes are down at a time and the network has low latency.

Availability 251

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The data loss will be catastrophic for many, as will the removal of foundational features like reliable data storage, app-like UI, settings integration, Push Notifications, and unread counts. Deep in the sub-basement of Apple's tower of tomfoolery are APIs and policies that purport to enable browser engine choice.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. The Kubernetes experience.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Database: MySQL 8.0.31

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

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. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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