The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. We had already developed a service mesh control plane that implements the Envoy XDS services.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. The Moto G7 very much looks the part.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. All aboard the Databus!:

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. All aboard the Databus!:

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. How can that be?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. A Few Words on Design Philosophy: Keep It Simple. This philosophy manifests itself in all areas, including installation, application development, and cluster management.

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