The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I also built online serving systems and microservices powering Walmart’s e-commerce. At this conference, I also got to know my current team: Consolidated Logging (CL).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mystery begins Towards the end of 2017, I was on a conference call to discuss an issue with the Netflix application on a new set top box. To play a 60fps video, the highest frame rate available in the Netflix catalog, the device must render a new frame every 16.66 aka “Lollipop”. This phase is buffering, before playback starts.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). How-to documentation is readily available.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s not much of a surprise, then, that I read more books in 2017 than I have since I started keeping track back in 2009. People live within different times: some standard, some commercially available for the right price. There were fewer standouts this year though, at least for non-fiction. It all revolves around time.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. In 2017, Intel Movidius announces its latest generation VPU, named Myriad X.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). What is MariaDB? Elevate your MariaDB environment with Percona Support for MariaDB.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 30, 2017

When you call for customer assistance, you often need to wait for an agent to become available after navigating a set of menus. Once connected, the systems that power call centers generally don't do a good job of using and sharing available information. " Jeff: "No, actually." Does that work? Virginia) region.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. We began streaming 5.1

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. After the launch of the French region there will be 10 Availability Zones in Europe. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Apple’s official move into augmented reality was announced at WWDC in 2017. In addition, the system uses the user’s gaze to optimize the visual quality and resolution precisely where it matters most: where the user is looking (exactly how the human eye does). New XR add-ons will be available to enhance your adventure.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 14, 2020

ServiceControl is the nerve center of your distributed system, storing the data and providing the APIs that allow ServicePulse and ServiceInsight to function. When enabling saga audits in an existing system make sure to provision enough resources as the Saga Audit plugin sends one additional message for each message processed by a saga.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. 0% performance overhead.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. Yet many of the most pressing risks are economic , embedded in the financial aims of the companies that control and manage AI systems and services. Available at: [link].

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VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. ” One of the suggested benefits of eventual consistency systems is that they support high availability across multiple data centers.But the biggest downside ?

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VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. ” One of the suggested benefits of eventual consistency systems is that they support high availability across multiple data centers.But the biggest downside ?

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. On Windows the system stores this in the registry and during startup increments the value. Question: What if I change the time of the system clock? Answer: The system time does not impact the uuid generation.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Trying to support every version available will only lead to diminishing returns that hurt your company’s profit margins.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

Another blocker was that I had no way of finding out which songs in my Spotify library would be available on the Tidal service. The good news is that the Tidal catalogue almost exactly mirrors Spotify’s, so plenty of the tracks I’d saved elsewhere were available. At home, I’m used to just streaming Spotify through an Amazon Echo.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2020

Even as the pandemic hits sales, [automakers] need to pour vast sums into developing electrical vehicles - with absolutely no guarantee of success. -- FT Lex, July 29, 2020 Socioeconomic systems in transition are impossible to navigate. The Cruze sold more in decline than Chevy sold EVs at their peak: 43,669, in 2017.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Giving priority to mobile website testing does not mean that you have to perform testing on all ‘categories’ of mobile phones available in the market. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2].

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Safe software deployment, canary testing, and play-delay Software engineering readers of this blog are likely familiar with unit, integration and load testing, as well as other testing practices that aim to prevent bugs from reaching production systems. Rationale : This system is part of a semi-automated process for all client deployments.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. 0% performance overhead.

Virtualization 40

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. Additional Security Hardening Options In addition to securing your CDN account, KeyCDN has many other security features available.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Not necessarily: Java-related searches increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018. Coincidence?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

We captured a core dump on a 2TB RAM system. The ELF header is limited to a 16 bit value or max of 0xFFFF and on the 2TB system the number of memory regions exceeded 65535 when the dump was captured. Thus, LLDB is not reading the available PT_LOAD headers and the region of memory needed appears after the 65535th entry.

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