The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. By default, gRPC uses protobuf as its IDL (interface definition language) and data serialization protocol. Our protobuf message definition (.proto FieldMask is a protobuf message.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. It is inevitable that software can break.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. What is a Distributed System? Three-Tier.

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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. But I’ve already done that elsewhere, with John, so I left it with adding a link to our definition. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Old Gatekeeper Architecture This model had several problems associated with it: This process was completely I/O bound and put a lot of load on upstream systems. New Gatekeeper Architecture With this model, liveness evaluation is conceptually separated from the data retrieval from upstream systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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. Plans & Offers Definitions Let’s define what a plan and an offer is at Netflix. A plan is essentially a set of features with a price.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. Here’s what the final architecture looked like.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Already in the 2000s, service-oriented architectures (SOA) became popular, and operations teams discovered the need to understand how transactions traverse through all tiers and how these tiers contributed to the execution time and latency. Distributed computing didn’t start with the rise of microservices.

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Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Let’s briefly describe the basic definitions of each of them first and then describe in detail the underlying differences that make them fall apart in certifying the quality of each of them. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications. There is no client and server in these.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

Azure Digital Twins for creating a graphical representation of the assets within an organization using the Digital Twin Definition Language, processing events, and visualizing entity graphs to display and query status. ScaleOut Software’s Digital Twin Streaming Service provides precisely these capabilities.

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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. Please be sure you Have the Continent definition in your query, or that you use a defined DBA account (dba_g{1/2}) Check here for the full command list. Why ProxySQL?

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Put another way, the performance gap between what devices the wealthy carry and what budget shoppers carry grew more this year (252 points) than the year-over-year gains from process and architecture at the volume price point (174 points). That's where the good news ends.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. Lastly, I also think there is definitely a place for new Kubernetes native big data frameworks.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value.

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John McCalpin

JULY 23, 2018

(From a recent post of mine on the Intel software developer forums — some potentially useful words to go along with my new low-overhead-timers project…). Updates on 2019-01-23 in blue. There are lots of topics that you need to be aware of when attempting fine-grain timing.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Commenters forwarding these claims, as a rule, do not understand browser architecture. "What, then, is a 'browser'?"

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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. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Large preview ).

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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 Cross-region Replication.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. 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. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level. To learn more about the transaction log architecture, see ​​ “Transaction Log Logical Architecture” in SQL Server Books Online.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It can be hosted on a CDN like Vercel or Netlify, which results in lower latency. is amazing, but there are definitely some challenges. Depending on the type of software you’re building it can be valuable to also have more granular tests using Enzyme or JEST. Challenges. Developing with Next.js Keep Up With Next.js

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