The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! In other words, false positives are bad but false negatives are the absolute worst!

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Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. That’s a large amount of data to handle. This creates a lot of complexity given different data sources, components, and tools. Here’s how it works.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. System Components. Data Models.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. That’s a large amount of data to handle. This creates a lot of complexity given different data sources, components, and tools. Here’s how it works.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. That’s a large amount of data to handle. This creates a lot of complexity given different data sources, components, and tools. Here’s how it works.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol. For example, the artwork service is separate from the video metadata service, but we need the data from both in the detail key.

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Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls.

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Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server Timing is a specification that allows communication of data from the server to the client through the use of a server-timing header. SpeedCurve's RUM collection library – lux.js – accesses this interface to collect custom data from the user agent. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. What is Dynamic Content?Dynamic

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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John McCalpin

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. In “Cache” mode, MCDRAM memory is used as an L3 cache for the main DDR4 memory. numactl).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map.

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Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer is an online system that observes the behaviour of cloud applications (using the DeathStarBench microservices for the evaluation) and predicts when QoS violations may be about to occur. ASPLOS’19.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. Since my data set is 100GB, I would like to see ChatGPT explicitly mention that a good starting point would be 100GB. What could it be?

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Social Media Database Servers Cache 124

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. system(".") You can use bpftrace via one-liners or scripts, and it ships with many prewritten tools.

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Since our BYOC plans are hosted through your own AWS or Azure account, all cloud instances, backups and data transfer costs are paid directly through your cloud provider. While this is a good way to get a rough estimate, your monthly cloud costs will indeed vary based on the amount of backups performed and your data transfer activity.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use a service, the kinds of instance types to go for if you do run your own, and so forth. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

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Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

These media focused machine learning algorithms as well as other teams generate a lot of data from the media files, which we described in our previous blog , are stored as annotations in Marken. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. in a video file. This is obviously very expensive.

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Media Latency Architecture Database 264

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. For as long as we’ve been talking about microservices, we’ve been talking about data. And data was at the heart of the problem. A well-defined interface should guide when and how that data is accessed and manipulated.

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Database Cache Architecture Latency 72