The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

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. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. And how about you Troy?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. These mechanisms need to be lean, seamless and effective.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

To drive better outcomes using hybrid cloud architectures, it helps to understand their benefits—and how to orchestrate them seamlessly. What is hybrid cloud architecture? Hybrid cloud architecture is a computing environment that shares data and applications on a combination of public clouds and on-premises private clouds.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Cloud can be confusing, even to technology folks and there’s a lot of misinformation out there. Hardware was outdated. and “You guys are just doing this to save money!”

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. We have a cloud model that offers a cloud-native method of software development, but it may take several more technological evolutions for the model to advance enough to have a minimal viable portability layer. For example, AWS created Nitro.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. To see the current details of everything Dynatrace supports, see our supported technologies matrix. Host performance measures.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming more prevalent in web development, with many companies and developers looking to integrate these technologies into their websites and web applications. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news.

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Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 141

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! Hardware implications.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace news. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

These both can be regarded as the latest techs in the arsenal of information technology. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. is a bad idea.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU. General Purpose GPU programming.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance. The DynamoDB team is launching document model support.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. Offline access.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Still, after all these years, keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Still, after all these years, keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. Consider using PRPL pattern and app shell architecture.

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