The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount.

Data Engineering 264

Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 264

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. primarily virtual?—?and and develop the ideas in this deck further.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A Here are a few examples.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A ‍What is CDN Architecture?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Since your dataset is 100 GB and you have 500 GB of RAM, you can allocate a significant portion of the available memory to the InnoDB buffer pool. A commonly recommended value for the buffer pool size is between 50% to 75% of the available memory. So, as for now, we are safe 😀 !

Social Media 122

Social Media Database Servers Cache 122

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Improved design The new Inventory page now provides a much clearer design and emphasizes useful information while downplaying reference details like service labels and IDs. Detailed section We’ve also moved all secondary information, like parameters and labels, to an expandable section available for each Service and Node.

Monitoring 79

Monitoring Database Metrics Tuning 79

Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

This created a tipping point in the organization to help deliver a solution that would not only meet this need but easily tie into the existing platform and any network environment. The obvious challenge is that not all applications are designed or built the same. Monitoring Examples: Desktop. 3270 Terminal.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Traffic Network Innovation 52

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

is available for you to look through, though we’ll pick apart individual waterfalls later in the article. To that end, waterfalls in all Chrome versions look identical, and networking/scheduling behaviour remains unchanged. Design modals and cookie banners etc. The initial demos can be found at: ??. ??

Virtualization 330

Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the apps now available on iPhone or Android may help with some of the realization by telling us how much time we spend gaming, emailing or watching YouTube on our phone. You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Creating presentations.

Games 126

Games Availability Software Software 126

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The IPU design supports both training and inference, and is a memory-centric design.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent. All the criteria are present for such systems to be classified as complex adaptive systems : connectedness, diversity, adaptation, and interdependence.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. One network hop up, Shopify’s CDN adds optimized edge-delivery with commerce specialized protection against malicious actors and shopping bots that now often operate at a scale that is able to DDoS many storefronts. Large preview ).

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc. due to unstable network connections. Fixing Code Smell. Testing Against Wrong Data.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. Available at: [link]. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize?

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. Begin network monitoring by simply deploying an extension with just a few clicks. Simplified data analysis presented in topological context. Start monitoring in minutes. Pool nodes. Virtual servers.

Network 207

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 207

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design.

Network 278

Network Performance Media Cache 278

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. All iOS browsers present as Safari to developers. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Both engines are forks and owe many present-day traits to their ancestors.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

InfoQ

MAY 13, 2022

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud. By Luciano Mammino.

Cloud 65

Cloud Architecture Scalability Network 65

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 14, 2020

The authors present this without commentary. More precisely, after a certain number of search steps for a fixed set , and after choosing the best available synthesized program for this set, we sample a set of additional histories by simulating the current programmatic policy, and add these samples to. Learning to drive a car.

Programming 63

Programming Network Games Processing 63

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Attempted modifications in JavaScript might break page functionality, inhibit proper rendering, or present other problems. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Tech News Gather

JULY 17, 2023

Wallet and Payment Apps The widespread availability of payment and wallet apps has dramatically simplified and increased the safety of online financial transactions. Insurtech apps use cutting-edge tools like AI and ML to accurately assess customers’ risk profiles and present them with customized insurance plans.

FinTech 40

FinTech Development IoT Mobile 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. I get why they’d think that way. An Introduction To VPS Hosting.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

The user is presented with different UX and content depending on the country (or locale) (e.g. Network Throttling – If your app is built for a global audience, it is important to test the app features in varied network conditions (e.g. A simple example of geolocation is Amazon.com.

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! “ How to design mechanisms and policies to avoid or reduce this latency remains an open question.” HotOS’19. The paper is silent on this issue.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. This track was a good state-of-the-union type affair, so I thought I’d share what was presented.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Functional errors.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82