The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. It is accessible only to vetted US entities and AWS account root users, who must confirm that they are US citizens or US permanent residents.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. Here are three.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do? Monitoring. On-call Support.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently. Pay Per Use.

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cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Cost - Serverless Computing is more cost-efficient than having a fixed quantity of servers. Rapid Development - You can quickly deploy a function without having to worry about infrastructure resources and growth. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Amazon: AWS Lambda.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. t run efficient queries on other attributes like â??Scoreâ??. That was before LSI.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. DSPs and SSPs need to filter out low-value data quickly and cost-efficiently to free up capacity.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. DSPs and SSPs need to filter out low-value data quickly and cost-efficiently to free up capacity.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key Takeaways A hybrid cloud platform combines private and public cloud providers with on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, secure, cost-effective IT environment that supports scalability, innovation, and rapid market response. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

You need to monitor it, so how should you monitor the monitoring systems… The first thing that would be useful is to have a monitoring system that has failure modes which are uncorrelated with the infrastructure it is monitoring. The SaaS provider can then also act as a monitor for the in-house systems.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. The optimization goal was to improve the application efficiency, that is to improve the ratio between service throughput and cloud costs while not increasing the application latency (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The underlying foundation of a workload within this environment is its ability to utilize computing resources and produce outputs based on given inputs.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. Data management.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

fact logging client, ETL, query client, and data quality infrastructure. We use Keystone as it is easy to use, reliable, scalable, and provides aggregation of facts from different cloud regions into a single AWS region. When they fail, it is either due to bad data or issues with the underlying infrastructure.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

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.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked. As you can see, the latency remains relatively jitter-free despite large fluctuations in the cluster size. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. This proximity significantly reduces the time it takes for the data to travel from the server to the user, thus reducing latency and improving load times. Time to First Byte over time. LCP in seconds.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. Build security in from the ground up.

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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. ElastiCache for Redis Multi-AZ capability is built to handle any failover case for Redis Cluster with robustness and efficiency. Building upon Redis.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since you now have lots of choices to address your high performance database needs, I decided to write this blog to help you select the most appropriate services for your workload using lessons I have learnt by scaling the infrastructure for Amazon.com.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. 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. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

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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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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

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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. Later on, your service might require security, and you might use AWS Web Application Firewall, which directly integrates with Amazon CloudFront to help secure your service. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

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. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

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. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212