The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Although MyRocks is very efficient for writes, I chose a more generic workload that will provide a different MyRocks use case. The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. InnoDB and MyRocks dataset sizes.

Storage 55

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Amazon ElastiCache customers will see their prices drop by up to 10%, depending on their cache node types. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

This is just one of many use cases that MezzFS supports, but all the use cases share a similar theme: stream the right bits of a remote object efficiently and expose those bits as a file on the filesystem. Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

Since we use so many AWS services in our work, it makes sense that we also consider AWS tools for CI/CD. What are the AWS Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools? AWS have a bunch of different products in this area grouped into their “CodeSuite” developer tools : CodeCommit is their managed Git service.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started Imagine building a high-tech car but only having access to a basic engine.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Analysed from the perspective of cloud-native design this presents a number of issues: CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth resources are all aggregated at each node, and can’t be scaled independently, making it hard to fit a workload efficiently across multiple dimensions. S3 on AWS). joins) during query processing. Elasticity.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. These edge servers are distributed in data centers across the globe.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. It may sound weird at first that you need a web server to achieve efficient static rendering.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 115

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. Your first option is to use its native CDN - Amazon CloudFront, as it seamlessly integrates with all of your other AWS Services that you're using to build your service.‍For What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

This release adds the GCache encryption and Write-Set cache encryption feature in tech preview , along with improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.0.31. The aim of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is to enable you to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up.

Open Source 78

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 78

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Easy MaintenanceWhen we say “easy maintenance,” it’s not a vague promise. Hold that thought.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol.

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Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. Tinder is one example of a customer that is using the flexible schema model of DynamoDB to achieve developer efficiency. The opposite is true. Building applications with purpose-built databases. Take Expedia, for example.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. An AWS Lambda function is a simpler option that you can use, as it only requires you to code the logic, set it, and forget it.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

Lambda 52

Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. A space- and compute-efficient multiverse database clearly cannot materialize all user universes in their entirety, and must support high-performance incremental updates to the user universes. Expressing privacy policies.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. There is some real jaw dropping work being done around this town and I had the privilege to see some of these highly guarded secrets, all powered by AWS.

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AWS Media Cache Operating System 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Disk based caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. MongoDB security: Monitor MongoDB performance regularly As with any database, it’s essential to monitor MongoDB performance to ensure it’s running with optimal efficiency and effectiveness.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Increased efficiency and productivity: Resource utilization can be raised, and we can monitor natural resources by identifying the functionality and working of each device. Image Source. billion by 2025.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. It is required for a database to execute this query efficiently, which typically applies for systems that implement range scans over primary keys. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. It is required for a database to execute this query efficiently, which typically applies for systems that implement range scans over primary keys. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

Database 212

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