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.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Mirae Asset Global Investments improved its web service environment and reduced annual management costs by 50% by consolidating the management of all web services, including servers, network, database, and security.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. Both examples check something is available before using it. Callum Hart.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it. The big challenge is that we must strike a balance.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. CrUX is what fuels PSI and Google Search Console, but it is also available in other tools you may already use. Can’t be perfect every time!

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. More information. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities. Additionally.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. In the previous section, we noted that many distributed query processing algorithms resemble message passing networks. Pipelining. However, things are not so simple.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. What is DNS? So DNS services definitely go down!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Dynatrace news. Requirements.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Dynatrace news. Requirements.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. However, it is extremely challenging to actually deploy them at Internet scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. This approach enables the computing power to catch up quickly when the queues grow.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. However, consistency is a very expensive thing in distributed systems, so it can be traded not only to availability.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Converging Views.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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