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,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer. There is a downside to fetching this data on-demand: this adds latency to the first request to a cluster.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For this reason sysbench presents a vastly more simplified workload than HammerDB. . Therefore if you are testing MySQL or MariaDB’s ability to support web-based applications that use SQL statements with minimal contention then sysbench is likely to present the best assessment of the system for this type of workload.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

Latency 243

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. More processing resources.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

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. When we merge these two concepts together and present them to the customer, we have the plan selection page (shown above).

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As there are few individuals with this expertise, an easier process presents a significant opportunity for companies who want to accelerate their ML usage. After this, there is often a long process of training that includes tuning the knobs and levers, called hyperparameters, that control the different aspects of the training algorithm.

Tuning 96

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 96

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Go to step 1 if more chunks present. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses active-passive architecture. Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Figure 3?—?DBLog

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Go to step 1 if more chunks present. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses an active-passive architecture. Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Figure 3?—?DBLog

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130