The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. The change was obvious in the production graphs, showing a drop in write latencies: Once tested more broadly, it showed the write latencies dropped by 43%, delivering slightly better performance than on CentOS.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

The next closest active POP location to Bucharest was Istanbul which was still almost 900km away; this distance adds up in terms of latency. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know on our feature requests community page and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. This works well for many SQL Server workloads, however, there have been use cases for a lower CPU latency and higher clock speed for CPU-heavy workloads and a need for higher memory per vCore.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

rc3-custom #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 14:07:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-rc3-custom It is always accepted that there may be options to tune the stored procedures or postgresql.conf for some gains, however this does impact the core argument around database scalability). rc3-custom x86_64).

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. The change was obvious in the production graphs, showing a drop in write latencies: Once tested more broadly, it showed the write latencies dropped by 43%, delivering slightly better performance than on CentOS.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228