The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. Selecting the best AWS region for Origin Fetch. AWS Region for the origin fetch. All Things Distributed.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. Comments ().

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