The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing has emerged as a critical paradigm to process data closer to the source—IoT devices. This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Data with context can improve your ability to deliver on your goals, modernize your organization, and accelerate business transformation. These outcomes are made easy through the platform’s unique ability to turn data into answers and action, in contextual, real-time, and cost-effective ways that were previously impossible.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space , Murat ). KevinBankston : Ford's CEO just said on NPR that the future of profitability for the company is all the data from its 100 million vehicles (and the people in them) they'll be able to monetize. It's HighScalability time: Curious how SpaceX's satellite constellation works?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience. In this example, unlike latency, the remaining three signals did not receive a “pass.”

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Streaming raises the default 6 MB hard limit to a 20 MB soft limit, adding greater scalability and flexibility to their applications. What is a Lambda serverless function?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running. Titus Gateway handles user requests.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

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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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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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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.

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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. Data Models. Graph Data Models.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables).

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It can happen on an edge API system servicing customer devices, between the edge and mid-tier services, or from mid-tiers to data stores. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes. It doesn't scale down to the point that is ridiculous and painful. Not so many this week.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Below is a visual representation of the various systems involved in retrieving plan and offer data. Moving forward, we’ll refer to the combination of plan and offer data simply as SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) data. Notice the difference in data structures from the legacy implementation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While we were able to put out the immediate fire by disabling the newly created alerts, this incident raised some critical concerns around the scalability of our alerting system. Atlas is an in-memory time-series database that ingests multiple billions of time-series per day and retains the last two weeks of data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. As such, the observability platform used to monitor Hyper-V should ideally fulfill requirements for holistic visibility, correlation and causation analysis, AI-powered analytics, scalability, and security.

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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. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This is guest post by Sachin Sinha who is passionate about data, analytics and machine learning at scale. Load stage is to load the data and then run stage we run the test. Load is consistent for all dbs for all tests as expected as this phase is to load the data. Again Yugabyte latency is quite high.

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InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. By Rafal Gancarz

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

And an O’Reilly Media survey indicated that two-thirds of survey respondents have already adopted generative AI —a form of AI that uses training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries. AI performs frequent data transfers. AI requires more compute and storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. This combination allows for the fluid movement of data and applications across different environments, facilitating shared workloads seamlessly.

Strategy 130

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. Serverless benefits include the following: Dynamic scalability. Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics.

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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. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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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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