The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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. It is more critical to our business than any other revenue-driving application.”

Software 165

Software Software Programming Metrics 165

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

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).

AWS 136

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

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).

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

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. Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server. Dynatrace news. Citrix VDA. SAP server. Citrix VDA.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The key ingredients of Cloudburst are a highly-scalable key-value store for persistent state ( Anna ), local caches co-located with function execution environments, and cache-consistency protocols to preserve developer sanity while data is moved in and out of those caches. Updates should be allowed at any function invocation site.

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. The heavy lifting is deferred to the back office.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

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. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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 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. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Network equipment like cable or router. The list goes on and on. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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. Because all the work is performed with the IMDG, this has the two-fold advantage of offloading both the network and the client’s CPU. Java applications use a similar mechanism.).

Analytics 52

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. Because all the work is performed with the IMDG, this has the two-fold advantage of offloading both the network and the client’s CPU. Java applications use a similar mechanism.).

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Another interesting experiment here compared the effects on performance of different storage types. Key findings.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 127

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 10, 2019

End-to-end it looks like this: All the tasks share a common base network until the embedding is generated, and then things split off into task-specific branches. Task branches are fully connected layers, with the weights serving as the class proxies, and a softmax cross-entropy loss. either 1 or 0) that collapses the range into two poles.

Latency 58

Latency Storage Architecture Traffic 58

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Back up anywhere – to the cloud (use any S3-compatible storage) or on-premise with a locally-mounted remote file system It allows you to choose which compression algorithms to use.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server. Citrix VDA. SAP server. Citrix VDA. Citrix StoreFront.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. As mentioned before, most of data pipelines are not stateless which means scalability is not given a thing.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). optimised container networking and security. Under the hood, the BlueData used several enhancements to boosts the I/O performance and scalability of container-based clusters. Storage provisioning. But Kubernetes storage is evolving quite quickly.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often these namespaces are hierarchical in nature such that it becomes easier to manage them and to decentralize control, which makes the system more scalable. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

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.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Site reliability engineers are focused with creating scalable and reliable software systems, so this also includes ensuring that development work is efficient and reliable, so when the finished product is ready for production, there are no surprises. It is at this junction where the site reliability engineer role comes in. Performance.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2014

Usually this means moving to a server with more CPU cores, greater memory capacity, and higher-end networking and storage options. Now CPU, memory, and storage resources can grow without predefined limits. Unless network bandwidth also grows proportionally to the number of servers, it usually becomes the limiter in scaling.

Network 40

Network Servers Analytics Storage 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? VMWare host groups.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145