The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

With cloud deployments growing rapidly during the past few years and enterprise multi-cloud environments becoming the norm, new challenges have emerged, including: Cloud dynamics make it hard to keep up with autoscaling, where services come and go based on demand. Azure Traffic Manager. Dynatrace news. Azure Batch.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. Not all attempts succeed on the first try.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Distributed Storage Architecture Distributed storage systems are designed with a core framework that includes the main system controller, a data repository for the system, and a database. Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. It was a Node.js The context around why the Node.js Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. Proper notifications or escalations are automated based on ownership information.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Up until AWS and the Cloud, reliable Disaster Recovery had largely remained cost prohibitive for most companies excepting for large enterprises.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., via bug fixes).

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. In serverless architecture, when applications are developed, they are typically composed of many different services. Other benefits to serverless architecture include the following: Cost. Response Times.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless. On the other hand I’m more convinced that for automated testing we should just be using real cloud environments. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. This architecture does not apply computing resources to track the myriad data sources sending telemetry and continuously look for issues and opportunities that need immediate responses.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer is an online system that observes the behaviour of cloud applications (using the DeathStarBench microservices for the evaluation) and predicts when QoS violations may be about to occur. ASPLOS’19.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

So while scale out has seen the majority of attention in the cloud era, it’s good to remind ourselves periodically just what we really can do on a single box or even a single thread. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Over time, that has evolved into something different. Multi-Tier.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic. We won’t need to worry about backups.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Although some vendors have added support for APIs and cloud services most have not even bothered to adapt with changing technology landscape. In addition, traditional CMS solutions lack integration with modern software stack, cloud services, and software delivery pipelines. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Network progress has been astonishing, particularly channel capacity (bandwidth).

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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. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

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