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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. It involves both the collection and storage of logs, as well as aggregation, analysis, and even the long-term storage and destruction of log data.

Systems 189

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 189

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. they can can be two orders of magnitude faster than FastBitSet.js.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 225

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 225

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. But what is the purpose behind this model? One downside of the hybrid cloud is related to downtime.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. Network propagation delays and stream processing times start to become a more important factor as the number of state change events and client requests increases.

Cache 224

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.

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

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. AWS Lambda. Automate monitoring tasks.

Best Practices 217

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 217

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Some of them include: Redundant hardware: Both HA and DR use redundant hardware components, including servers and storage devices. It’s suitable for databases with moderate change rates.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

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

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Scenario 3 – Network Partition – Network Connectivity Breaks Down Between Master and Slave Nodes. This is a classical problem in any distributed system where each node thinks the other nodes are down, while in reality, only the network communication between the nodes is broken.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

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

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. DNS resolving error. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management: This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Such a proxy acts as the traffic cop between the applications and the database servers.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration. Are you looking to enhance performance, improve scalability, cut expenses, or gain access to specific features you don’t currently have? Start by identifying the reasons driving the migration.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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. Using traffic-weighted samples of queries, two sets of 10K (question, answer) tasks per visual search product are built. The last word.

Latency 58

Latency Storage Architecture Traffic 58

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. 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. How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To scale from 5 to 10 machines, you simply adjust the default value of this variable from 5 to 10 and rerun the Terraform apply command.‍Beyond just VM instances, this scalability extends to other aspects of your infrastructure. Their expertise lies in ensuring everything runs smoothly, from servers to networks.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145