The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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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 ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. How Bulldozer leverages Spark, Protobuf and KV DAL for moving the data.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

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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! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. The canononical cloud platform architecture decouples storage and compute services so that each can be scaled and operated independently, i.e., they are disaggregated.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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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. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

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.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” And if you know someone with hearing problems they might find Live CC useful.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Provisioned IOPS storage in RDS.

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Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs. Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al.,

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Database AWS Network Design 106

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. The growth of Amazonâ??s Lessons learned from Amazons Dynamo.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Amazon’s enhancements address many day-to-day challenges with running Redis.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. At AWS, we believe in giving choices, so Amazon SageMaker removes that problem.

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Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 94

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Back up anywhere – to the cloud (use any S3-compatible storage) or on-premise with a locally-mounted remote file system It allows you to choose which compression algorithms to use.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. Where to go from here?

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. We can also extend this for automation(using Ansible, for example), which in general, DevOps engineers tend to create a pool of mongos.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. More information.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. This achieves very low-latency for queries which is crucial for the overall performance of internet applications. No lock-in. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Science & Engineering. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. an engineering adventure to break the 1,000 mph barrier in a car. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All postings.

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. latency, startup, mocking, etc.)

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In addition to the common financial calculation of risk as the product of probability and severity, engineering risk includes detectability. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

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