All Things Distributed
MAY 19, 2017
In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.
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.
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Alex Russell
JUNE 22, 2022
World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. The Best Kind Of Correct #.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?
The Netflix TechBlog
JANUARY 10, 2024
From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded. The results are saved to a database so they can be reused. Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. 264, AV1, etc.).
All Things Distributed
APRIL 4, 2017
In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure. flights, allowing the airline to expand twelvefold to cope with the spike in traffic that it experienced at the time. That’s 100% faster.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?
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