The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

As organizations turn to artificial intelligence for operational efficiency and product innovation in multicloud environments, they have to balance the benefits with skyrocketing costs associated with AI. These data volumes must be transferred from edge devices to the cloud. Growing AI adoption has ushered in a new reality.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

As organizations accelerate innovation to keep pace with digital transformation, DevOps observability is becoming a critical key to success for DevOps and DevSecOps teams. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. via bug fixes).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. Reduced latency. Dynatrace news. Efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. We were able to onboard additional product use cases at a fast pace thus unblocking a lot of innovation.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Organizations across Italy have been using the AWS Cloud for over a decade, using AWS Regions located outside of Italy. We have offices in Rome and Milan, where we continue to help Italian customers of all sizes move to the AWS Cloud. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

At AWS we innovate by listening to and learning from our customers, and one of the things we hear from them is that they want it to be even simpler to run code in the cloud and to connect services together easily. One of the most exciting aspects of Lambda is that it helps you create dynamic, event-driven applications in the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. The asynchronous and distributed model has the benefits of loose coupling and selective scalability, but it also creates new challenges.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Anna Paper: Eliminating Boundaries in Cloud Storage with Anna.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon ML is highly scalable and can generate billions of predictions, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. Those problems (some with shared elements) include: High cost and complicated pricing structure : Many companies say MongoDB has an expensive and complicated pricing structure ( Cloud Zero, January 2023 ). MongoDB Enterprise is commercial.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. How do I choose which one to use?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. changelog ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Enter graph databases.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This lowered latency more than 2x and delivered more than 10x improvement in latency variability on the network.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. At least once? At most once?

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. Most of cloud object/blob storage services have native support for static site hosting.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. With MovableType, you had everything you needed to manage your blog.

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