The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. UberEats also excels in providing a reliable and efficient delivery service.

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Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Dangerous , because if you set this to a thread when using connection pooling OR ProxySQL and multiplexing, you may end up assigning a limitation to queries that instead, you wanted to run efficiently. You need to identify the source (like TCP/IP if it is fixed, username) and design which settings you want for your resource groups.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Performance tuning The first critical move in performance tuning is query optimization.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 12, 2023

Stay tuned. Moreover, developers can also make prototypes, test the app, and develop the application efficiently with the Headless CMS. High-performing Websites With Good Traffic One of the reasons why visitors keep coming to your website is the speed. This post answers all your queries in detail. What is Headless CMS?

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Particular Software

APRIL 9, 2018

To understand if our theme park is running efficiently or not, we'll need monitoring tools that understand how theme parks really work. While it's impossible to get rid of lines completely, understanding how they work can help us maximize our park's efficiency. So how do theme parks work? So we could narrow that down to two questions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. depending on the use case.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Designed with High Availability in mind. Writing events to any output.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Designed with High Availability in mind. Writing events to any output.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” We do this all the time, when we ask “what if?”

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. Congestion Control. roughly, how many packets per second can be sent or received). see figure 2c above).

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