The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type. Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 202

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Up until AWS and the Cloud, reliable Disaster Recovery had largely remained cost prohibitive for most companies excepting for large enterprises.

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

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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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Vikings fight zombies. A Viking shepherd superhero.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads. In addition, for cloud native applications, a feedback loop is used to auto-scale the application resources based on metrics that report the utilization of current capacity.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future. Global Reach and Cloud Integration ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Vikings fight zombies. A Viking shepherd superhero.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements. Cloud First. Cloud Firstâ?? Comments ().

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. 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.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

It is available for the major OS and cloud platforms (for example, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AWS, Azure, and more) and only requires the deployment of a single service to monitor its environment. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. What is OneAgent?

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 170

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

Traffic 252

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. " Hemnet. million unique visitors and 26 million searches made every week.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose. Regional isolation.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Across the board, the topics cloud migration, application modernization, breaking the monolith or hybrid cloud re-platforming have been a center point in many of our discussions with our joint enterprise customers. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A quick way to fix this is simply by temporarily changing the TTL (time to live) setting for the DNS record, and route your traffic to the second DNS server until the outage is fixed. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52