The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding. Left: Lanczos downscaling; right: deep downscaler.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation. The benefits of serverless Lambda functions.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Cost optimization.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability.

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InfoQ

JUNE 26, 2023

Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Azure Serverless Performance Storage 87

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. InS does now offer an NVMe variant too, and the authors perform limited testing on that as well.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

The Morning Paper

MARCH 19, 2020

Serverless in the wild: characterizing and optimising the serverless workload at a large cloud provider , Shahrad et al., Every once in a while though a point in the design space can be discovered where we don’t have to trade-off quality and cost, where we can have both a higher quality product and a lower unit cost.

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Serverless Cloud Azure Government 73

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Risks include performance problems and outages in cloud-native environments, application security vulnerabilities and poor digital experience for customers and other users. Build a proactive approach to cloud operations for increased resilience – Perform 22 session. DevSecOps: Security by design.

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Open Source DevOps Java Innovation 221

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. While these serverless services provide strong business benefits due to their flexible on-demand usage and pricing model, they also introduce new complexities for observability. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2019

With all the benefits that microservices architecture and cloud-native and serverless applications bring, they also add a lot of complexity from an operations point of view. To successfully support and manage these applications, it has become very important to have full visibility into these distributed applications.

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Development Serverless Monitoring Architecture 171

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. While this gave client teams a very convenient “serverless” model, over time we ran into multiple operational and devex challenges with this service. It was a Node.js

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. joins) during query processing.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. What is the monolithic architecture approach?

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.” Perhaps inspired by serverless in spirit and in terminology, the path forward proposed in this paper is towards a managed and model-less inference serving system.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

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Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 195

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. What is FaaS? Increased availability. Limited visibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. On the one hand, logic is divided between API, workflow and serverless functions. debian packages).

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures.

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Cloud Serverless Innovation Architecture 244

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. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.”

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

IT, DevOps, and SRE teams are racing to keep up with the ever-expanding complexity of modern enterprise cloud ecosystems and the business demands they are designed to support. Observability is the new standard of visibility and monitoring for cloud-native architectures. Dynatrace news. Leaders in tech are calling for radical change.

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps Serverless 191

Abhishek Tiwari

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The evolution of your technology architecture should depend on the size, culture, and skill set of your engineering organization. There are no hard-and-fast rules to figure out interdependency between technology architecture and engineering organization but below is what I think can really work well for product startup.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. 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.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. Interestingly, multi-cloud, or the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single homogeneous network architecture, had the fewest users (24% of the respondents). our respondents are more likely to be using SRE than not.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 188

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’ Cloudburst’s design includes consistent mutable caches in the compute tier.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. Aurora Features High Performance and Scalability Amazon Aurora has gained widespread recognition for its exceptional performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for handling demanding workloads.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

It wouldn’t scale and it wouldn’t perform either. Highly parallel and performant for any API call and doesn’t introduce much overhead. ? I wanted a rather lightweight design that is yet versatile. A high performance API gateway multiplexer. The key for high performance is concurrency. Is it really performant?

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Cache Serverless Efficiency Tuning 234

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

Kitopi’s architecture relies on Apache Kafka. Another key component to our architecture was extracting aggregated data to get a better overview of current system health and performance. While our prototype worked well for our restaurant ON/OFF use case it wasn’t designed to scale easily.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 199

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development. Serverless Architecture. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development. Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113