The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. ScribbleLive provides a cloud platform that media companies use to cover breaking news on their websites and engage with their audiences.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We have built an internal system that allows someone to perform in-video search across the entire Netflix video catalog, and we’d like to share our experience in building this system. Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements.

Media 225

Media Social Media Tuning Efficiency 225

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Dynatrace news.

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for developers to deploy and manage scalable and fault-tolerant applications on the AWS cloud. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is designed to be very easy to use, scalable and cost-effective video transcoding in the cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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AWS Media Scalability Storage 102

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Ensure scalability and performance optimization: As your clone app gains popularity and attracts more users, scalability and performance optimization become crucial. Stay tuned for insights on building a robust and scalable UberEats clone app. These frameworks offer scalability, performance, and ease of development.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

We’ll also cover how our Studio Engineering efforts are helping Netflix productions to spend less time on media logistics by utilizing our cloud based services. Partner API Import : We provide external APIs for our partners to exchange media files and metadata to and from the cloud. Lights, Camera, Media! Walk, before you run.

Media 174

Media Cloud Logistics Technology 174

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. The list goes on and on. Network Latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

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. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Are videos properly optimized? Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes. Fast data can have a transformational impact on data-driven development that is underlying a lot of the interesting things happening in the Cloud today.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5 It has 40 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. Many more quotes await your reading pleasure.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. The importance of the network.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. The importance of relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. However, as use of the cloud as grown, so have the file sizes customers want to store in Amazon S3 as objects. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As Dan Rayburn wrote on his Business of Video blog, "Amazon will be in the drivers seat to own the market for small and medium sized content owners who need simple delivery at a great price.". Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

Media 60

Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Video Transcoding. Migration to cloud.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52