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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. The nodes themselves are designed specifically for data warehousing workloads. Loading, monitoring, tuning, taking backups, and recovering from faults are complex and time-consuming tasks. We designed Amazon Redshift with integration and compatibility in mind. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). With global secondary indexes in DynamoDB, you can now have many indexes and tune their capacity independently. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. Since launch, DynamoDB has been the core infrastructure powering various AWS and Amazon services and has provided more than 5 9s of availability worldwide.

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