The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. 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

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. Imagine getting paged outside normal work hours?—?users

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. Synchronous storage size. Async storage size. Storage read size rate. Storage read count rate.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. DevOps monitoring also helps teams meet their SLAs for system uptime.

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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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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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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. Each of these platforms offers a wide range of services and tools for web application development and deployment, including storage, databases, and serverless computing.

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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. High availability does not guarantee 100% uptime, but an HA system enables you to minimize downtime to the point you’re almost there.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI algorithms embedded in cloud architecture automate repetitive processes, streamlining workloads and reducing the chance of human error. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2]. By their nature, they can only rely on the lowest common denominator of participating systems. That system quickly grew very complex and became difficult to maintain.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Like ScaleGrid’s offerings for multi-cloud architecture compatibility, its solutions are well-suited for use within a single cloud provider or a hybrid cloud setup as well. Firstly, let’s take a look at Spotify’s implementation of the multi-cloud approach before exploring Netflix’s adoption of a hybrid cloud architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The coupling problem Until recently, video quality measurements were generated as part of our Reloaded production system. This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. We call this system Cosmos.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability. If one of these situations becomes a bottleneck in your system, you start a cluster.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. There are a few more quotes.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Unfortunately, other than cost advantage Wordpress and Drupal have similar deficiencies i.e. legacy monolith architecture.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore. The workflow status listener provides hooks to connect to any notification system of your choice. As such, Conductor 2.x

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. IoT tracking systems. Smart cities.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. NGINX as an API Gateway.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The usual technique for modeling fuzzy systems is Monte Carlo analysis, which computes with distributions rather than precise values. Energy data can be obtained from power delivery systems in datacenters or from intelligent plugs or power strips.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 12, 2023

It was a content management system first and today, WordPress has no boundaries. The front-end of the website is what you see and interact on the display on the screen and the backend is the logical part of the app that has components such as storage, coding, content management, etc. It is also called coupled architecture.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Last time out we looked at some great lessons from Airbnb as they introduced deep learning into their search system. As image recognition architectures are evolving quickly, we want to iterate our three specialized embeddings with modern architectures to improve our three visual search products. Model architecture.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Automation is key.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Small projects benefit from simple architecture. Option 1: Default Django.

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High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Thus, whenever a master MySQL goes down (whether due to a MySQL crash, OS crash, system reboot, etc.), This ensures that the system continues to be available to the applications. Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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