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.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Virtual Memory. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows. schedtool –B PID. vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60. Huge Pages. kernel.numa_balancing = 0.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Virtual Memory. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows. schedtool –B PID. vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60. Huge Pages. kernel.numa_balancing = 0.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements. Cloud First. Cloud Firstâ?? Cloud Readyâ??;

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111