The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. providing advanced search capabilities (ElasticSearch etc.),

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. One of the powerful workflows to leverage is continuous release validation.

AWS 247

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 247

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance. Interoperability with Hadoop.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry reference architecture. This information is gathered from remote, often inaccessible points within your ecosystem and processed by some sort of tool or equipment. This information is gathered from remote, often inaccessible points within your ecosystem and processed by some sort of tool or equipment.

Open Source 219

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 219

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. How do I know that my cache is up to date?

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. REDIS for caching. In order to filter these dashboards by tenant all they need is a Dynatrace Management Zone , which is based on meta data extracted by Dynatrace from e.g. k8s tags, container labels or process environment variables. NGINX as an API Gateway. 1 Validate Deployment.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. This is a feature of the NSA architecture which requires dropping off of 5G onto 4G, doing a handover on 4G, and then upgrading to 5G again.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

In fact, before we even had the word microservices in our lexicon, back when it was just good old-fashioned service-oriented architecture, we were talking about data: how to access it, where it lives, who “owns” it. As I expanded upon in my book, Building Microservices , a shared database creates a huge coupling point in your architecture.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

Serverless 280

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

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.

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage.

Artificial Intelligence 209

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 209

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. .

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. By the time the player needs it, the content is already cached and ready to go.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. These applications are built on a microservices architecture, and the Asset Management Platform provides asset management to those dozens of services for various asset types. The first layer, Cassandra , is the source of truth for us.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

But since retrieving data from disk is slow, databases tend to work with a caching mechanism to keep as much hot data, the bits and pieces that are most often accessed, in memory. In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

Tuning 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Application shell architecture. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Helios also serves as a reference architecture for how Microsoft envisions its next generation of distributed big-data processing systems being built. These two narratives of reference architecture and ingestion/indexing system are interwoven throughout the paper. Why do we need a new reference architecture?

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Because the solutions still rely on writing in one single node that works as Primary.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123