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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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. They offer scalability without compromising cost-efficiency or flexibility, making them advantageous like multi-cloud models.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

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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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 158

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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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

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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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. It allows organizations to define policies in a domain-specific language (DSL) tailored to infrastructure-as-code (IAC) configurations. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

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.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

By leveraging the power of mobile technology, UberEats provides a seamless and efficient way for users to order their favorite meals from a wide range of eateries. UberEats also excels in providing a reliable and efficient delivery service. Choose a robust technology stack that can handle high traffic and accommodate future growth.

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Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra Netflix Conductor is maintained by the Media Workflow Infrastructure team.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Source: FileFlex. Cost-Saver.

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DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

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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Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Increased efficiency and productivity: Resource utilization can be raised, and we can monitor natural resources by identifying the functionality and working of each device. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

AWS Cloud 9 AWS Cloud 9 is ideal for developing PHP applications completely in the cloud. Additionally, DebugBar can monitor network traffic, inspect CSS elements and evaluate your JavaScript code. It supports many popular PHP web frameworks and CMS solutions including WordPress, Drupal, Magento and Joomla.

Development 57

Development Open Source Java AWS 57

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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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

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. This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads. Download today.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Elasticsearch recommends each shard to be under 65GB (AWS recommends them to be under 50GB), so we could create time based indices where each index holds somewhere between 16–20GB of data, giving some buffer for data growth. We also utilize Kafka to process these assets asynchronously without impacting our real time traffic.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

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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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167