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. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. It was a Node.js The context around why the Node.js

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A message-based microservices architecture offers many advantages, making solutions easier to scale and expand with new services. The asynchronous nature of interservice interactions inherent to this architecture, however, poses challenges for user-initiated actions such as create-read-update-delete (CRUD) requests on an object.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. For example, WeChat and Weibo, which further allows the government to control the content being posted on such platforms.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. For example, WeChat and Weibo, which further allows the government to control the content being posted on such platforms.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

Flexible and modular architecture Laravel’s flexible and modular architecture is beneficial for healthcare apps because they allow for feature-rich, customized, and interoperable services. Scalability : Laravel can handle high traffic and complex functionality with no hassle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. For example, WeChat and Weibo, which further allows the government to control the content being posted on such platforms.

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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. In addition, Amazon S3 redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and is designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. For example, WeChat and Weibo, which further allows the government to control the content being posted on such platforms.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A look at the stages of designing an API and service. In this article, I'll explore the tasks in designing a microservice and suggest the parts that can respond to automation. The design stage. The API can also get quite complex, as just shown with the clothing example, and may be hard to keep consistent.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

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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. For example, entirely relying on a Pull model wherein the device frequently calls home for updates would result in chatty mobile apps.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. On average the cluster had 386 containers active at any one time. (I

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. The number of services that compose our product in order to scale our organization and handle the increases in traffic went from under 10 to over 30 services. Core service architecture.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Conduit Architecture. Due to the one-to-one relationship between a pod and a deployment, the mapping between traffic flows and pod a lot easier to manage. Conduit CLI is designed to work in conjunction with kubectl whenever possible. Let start with example app emojivoto maintained by Conduit team. Let's get started.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Dynatrace and AWS.

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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. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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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. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. The background ratio won’t kick in until 12.8GB.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Why is web application security important? million Americans, 15.2

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. This makes it challenging to design effective far memory data structures. A worked example.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

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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).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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 For example, it is OK to send writes through one instance, and do reads from another one with full data read consistency guarantees.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

MySQL, as well as other RDBMS, are designed to work respecting the model and cannot scale in any way by fragmenting and distributing a schema, so what can be done to scale? Keeping in mind the example above, where we have a shop online serving multiple customers, we need to identify which is the most effective way to split the data.

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