The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. We look forward to seeing you there!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. We look forward to seeing you there!

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Lambda’s toolbox of automated processes helps developers streamline to build fast, robust, and scalable applications on accelerated timelines. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. As The New Stack reports, developers spend only 32% of their time at work actually coding. It helps SRE teams automate responses.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs.

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InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. By Rafal Gancarz

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function.

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InfoQ

AUGUST 10, 2020

After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers modified slightly Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%, Dropbox engineers Rishabh Jain and Daniel Reiter Horn maintain.

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Performance Latency Google Engineering 65

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE) , failure is not only an option, but also expected. In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. A growing number of applications are relying on asynchronous and distributed processing, with scalability of the application as the primary motivation. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Java Scalability 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

While the addition of a user-interaction service increases the complexity of the user’s interaction with Team Service, it results in a more scalable and efficient architecture overall. In our implementation, as illustrated by message 9, we include a message time-out for late arrivals beyond a maximum latency time (TIME_OUT_LATENCY = 10 min).

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Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. We look forward to seeing you there!

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

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. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There is more than one Werner Vogels in this world and although I never get emails, snail mail or phones calls for any of my peers, I am sure they are somewhat frustrated if they type in our name in a search engine :-). All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. An SSR application will generally have templating engines that inject the variables into an HTML when given to the client. However, some caveats regarding performance, scalability, and potential data conflicts exist. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?. Caching Schemes.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Enterprise cloud architects and engineers require significant knowledge to ensure that private and public clouds work together compatibly. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! 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. I'd really appreciate it. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Modularity and flexibility.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

From an engineering perspective this may be all that you need to know. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure.

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

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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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. There are three common issues that the dataset owners usually face.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Science & Engineering. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. an engineering adventure to break the 1,000 mph barrier in a car.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. Imagine having an AI engine that comprehends the complete context of the transaction and intelligently determines whether to send a discount code—and which one to send. Has the user purchased this product before?

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DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 217

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. – blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Sometimes Data Engineers write downstream ETLs on ingested data to optimize the data/metadata layouts to make other ETL processes cheaper and faster.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. All Things Distributed.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

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. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

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