The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. There are many naive solutions possible for this problem for example: Write different runs in different databases.

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InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

SLOG: serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions Ren et al., That’s where SLOG (Serializable LOw-latency, Geo-replicated transactions) comes in. Data is replicated across regions, but for every data item one of these regions is designated as its home replica. VLDB’19. Is my data at home? Evaluation.

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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. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. Key Components of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure A hybrid cloud architecture usually merges a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform with private computing assets and incorporates tools to manage these combined environments.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions? Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. HyperScale Database. Hyperscale databases are provisioned using vCores. DTU Pricing Tier.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. via bug fixes). We call this system Cosmos.

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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. All too often, the software wasn’t designed in a way that made it easy to ship. And data was at the heart of the problem.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. A new record entering a database table. Tasks like API requests, database calls, and file system management are perfect candidates for this service.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. The design space. VLDB’19. The last word.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. By the following morning, alerts were received regarding high memory consumption and GC latencies, to the point where the service was unresponsive to HTTP requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. Transparency to end-users.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. A/B testing is also a key technique in migrations where the updates to the architecture involve changing device contracts as well.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

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InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

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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? Emphasis mine ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained. Garbage collectors are designed under the assumption that memory should be cleaned up reasonably quickly.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Because cloud architectures are more distributed and dynamic resources come and go as needed, performance can be varied. By establishing these, you can work backward to ensure every step of the process is designed to serve these outcomes.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.)

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