The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

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Cache Latency Traffic Database 83

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Handling a storage system spread across multiple physical servers introduces complexities such as unpredictability in behavior, difficulties with testing procedures, and an overall increase in administrative complexity due to the dispersed nature of data.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., An equally large fraction are due to compute contention, followed by network, cache, memory, and disk contention. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192