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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Achieving observability in async workflows

The Netflix TechBlog

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. In late 2019, our team started integrating it with the rest of the ecosystem by writing a thin Java Domain graph service (DGS) to wrap the asynchronous watermarking functionality that was then in Ruby on Rails. Things got hairy.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. 1] The serverless adoption survey ran in June 2019. 1 reported benefit.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. Wednesday?—?December

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Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3]. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. Queue 17, 1, pages 40 (February 2019), 21 pages.