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. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. Efficient environment configuration at scale One of software engineers’ most significant challenges is managing the numerous tools and technologies required for the software product lifecycle.

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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.

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and periodically compute key information for a member or a video. At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., via bug fixes).

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

VoltDB

MAY 30, 2024

And yet, more often than not, OEMs don’t consider their underlying tech stack technologies until they are way too deep into said crisis. This, in turn, sometimes led to local DBAs making problems worse, or sometimes conjuring problems out of thin air by (ab)using their mandate to ‘tune’ the system. Another issue is geo-distribution.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled microservice architecture and with a global studio footprint, surfacing and connecting the data from microservices into a studio data catalog in real time has become more important than ever. Most of the business views created on top of the Iceberg tables can tolerate a few minutes of latency.

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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. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved. A plan is essentially a set of features with a price.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. Finally, one of the best aspects of Amazon SageMaker is its modular architecture.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

There is a lot of awesome technology involved with Hyperscale in how it is architected to use SSD-based caches and page servers. I highly recommend that you take a look at the diagram that breaks down the architecture and how it all works in this article. Serverless Database. Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations.

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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, At least once?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For streaming technology, Netflix utilizes a variety of options such as Kafka, SQS, Kinesis, and even Netflix specific streaming solutions such as Keystone. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses active-passive architecture. Writing events to any output. Figure 3?—?DBLog Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For streaming technology, Netflix utilizes a variety of options such as Kafka, SQS, Kinesis, and even Netflix specific streaming solutions such as Keystone. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses an active-passive architecture. Writing events to any output. Figure 3?—?DBLog Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

You might imagine that at some point we had a major scaling crises, where it looked like we'd fail due to an architectural bottleneck, and engineers worked long nights and weekends to save Netflix from certain disaster. A latency outlier issue that happened every 15 minutes. That'd make a great story, but it didn't happen.

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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. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. Dirty Page Latency ​​ – A page is considered dirty when data modifications have taken place.

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