The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today. Recent Entries.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. There is a downside to fetching this data on-demand: this adds latency to the first request to a cluster.

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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. MySQL Router was never in the game.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Gaming‍With millions of players worldwide often playing simultaneously, online gaming companies cannot afford significant downtime without risking player satisfaction and potential revenue. Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time. In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), where players can trade virtual goods, downtime can even have real-world financial implications for players.

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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 Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

interactive AR/VR, gaming and critical decision making). Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Architectural research in these areas remains traditionally focused on the analysis of object detection and recognition algorithms (e.g.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical. Let’s walk through another gaming example. Consider a table named GameScores that keeps track of users and scores for a mobile gaming application.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

From Edge's telemetry, we see that nearly half of devices fall into our "low-end" designation, which means that they have: HDD s (not SSD s). For example, let's say you send more HTML and less JavaScript, or your serving game is on lock and all critical assets load over a single H/2 link. 2-4 CPU cores. 4GB RAM or less.

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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. Comments ().

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For example, if a request activates a rule designed to block SQL injection attempts, the WAF might automatically block that request, preventing it from reaching your web application.‍Security Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. There's reason to worry that this is unlikely.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if a request activates a rule designed to block SQL injection attempts, the WAF might automatically block that request, preventing it from reaching your web application.‍Security Flywheel‍‍When it comes to fortifying web applications, think of security as a flywheel—an ever-revolving cycle that gains momentum with each turn.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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