The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

Previously, Part 1 of these two blog posts provided our thesis that analytic models can complement measurement and simulations to give quick insight, show what is not possible, provide a double-check, and suggest future directions. How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency?

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Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

It can be used to power new analytics, insight, and product features. It can be used to power new analytics, insight, and product features. Processing latency is minimum If only you can infinitely scale your data pipeline, processing latency can be guaranteed to be minimum, but we know for sure that is not true.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. An organization’s response to an incident, whether we are talking about downtime, security breaches or cyber-attacks, or even prolonged latency and repeated errors, is critical to the continued success of the business and trust from the customer or end user.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud Cloud Readyâ??; Government and Big Data.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Real User Monitoring (RUM) Pingdom New Relic (also backend, database and server health monitoring) Google Analytics mPulse. Performance Checklists. References.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. It is designed to cache plain text values, offering fast read and write access to frequently accessed data. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity. Global Reach and Cloud Integration ScaleGrid.io

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Fault-tolerance. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. Oh, and in additional to low latency, “ we require access to fresh data.” VLDB’19.

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Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times. One of the key Next.js

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon EMR. Requirements.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 135

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon EMR. Requirements.

AWS 132

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 132

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive environments and autonomous driving (e.g. Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Last but not least, the ability to auto-generate optimal neural networks (e.g.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency. Photo by von Vix.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Proactive monitoring aids in detecting performance bottlenecks, latency difficulties, and other anomalies that may influence availability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Proactive monitoring aids in detecting performance bottlenecks, latency difficulties, and other anomalies that may influence availability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). How can that be? There's reason to worry that this is unlikely.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. The throughput of this pipeline is more important than the latency of the individual operations.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Achieving strict consistency can come at a cost in update or read latency, and may result in lower throughput. Lowest read latency. Higher read latency. Consistent read.

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AWS Latency Database Scalability 69

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2014

Usually this means moving to a server with more CPU cores, greater memory capacity, and higher-end networking and storage options. Unless network bandwidth also grows proportionally to the number of servers, it usually becomes the limiter in scaling. Now CPU, memory, and storage resources can grow without predefined limits.

Network 40

Network Servers Analytics Storage 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. SIMD instructions are already utilized by Apache Arrow - mentioned in the previous section - for native vectorized optimization of analytical data processing.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. A Few Words on Design Philosophy: Keep It Simple.

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Cache Servers Network Design 40