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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. For example, in Reloaded the video quality calculation was implemented inside the video encoder module.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. In a common WebSocket architecture, the Front-end application will connect to a WebSocket API, an event bus, or a database. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Service Catalog. Problem Management.

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DynamoDB for Location Data: Geospatial querying on DynamoDB datasets

All Things Distributed

Over the past few years, two important trends that have been disrupting the database industry are mobile applications and big data. The explosive growth in mobile devices and mobile apps is generating a huge amount of data, which has fueled the demand for big data services and for high scale databases.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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