The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

For instance, video playback functionality on Netflix involves requesting URLs for the streams from a service, calling the CDN to download the bits from the streams, requesting a license to decrypt the streams from a separate service, and sending telemetry indicating the successful start of playback to yet another service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

by Eric Eiswerth Background Netflix has been offering streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) for over 10 years. In particular, we’ll define plans and offers, review the legacy architecture and some of its shortcomings, and dig into our new architecture and some of its advantages. The database contains the plans, prices and offers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Once you finally find useful identifiers, you may begin writing SQL queries against your production database to find out what went wrong.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If this sounds like poor architecture to you — you’re absolutely right. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. database and outputs the game PIN as a response. More after jump! Large preview ).

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Video Transcoding. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Permissions. Recommendations.

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