The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. Dynatrace news.

Lambda 186

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 186

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. at the time. [bcc]:

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked. Below is a diagram of the basic components of Amazon ECS: How we coordinate the cluster.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. To this end, we present three simple models that we find useful like Amdahl’s Law, split here into two blog posts. How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Answered in Part 2.).

Systems 60

Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Previously, Part 1 of these two blog posts provided our thesis that analytic models can complement measurement and simulations to give quick insight, show what is not possible, provide a double-check, and suggest future directions. and 1/S as ?.

Systems 53

Systems Latency Performance C++ 53