The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain. Migrating to the cloud is a strategy many organizations pursue to streamline and consolidate their security efforts. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. They can do so by establishing a solid FinOps strategy. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. and others) you don’t know distributed systems.” They'll love you even more. million : lost in ATM malware hack; $1.5 It is time for the world to move to an OS structure appropriate for 21st century security requirements. myelixirstatus !#Serverless.No

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Problem of scale The real problem with bandwidth is not one of absolute speed but one of scale. Solutions In order to combat the 3 rd fallacy of distributed computing, there are a few strategies we can use. We'll never be satisfied.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Traditionally, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on entitled groups as it relates to performance – fast connection speeds, devices with high-end CPUs, low-latency geographies. Building a more inclusive web. What can you expect from me?

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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. The application should be designed in such a way that it compels users to revisit the site again.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. It is designed to cache plain text values, offering fast read and write access to frequently accessed data. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity. High data availability is achieved.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In a nutshell, a data pipeline is a distributed system. Processing latency is minimum If only you can infinitely scale your data pipeline, processing latency can be guaranteed to be minimum, but we know for sure that is not true.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud With AWSâ??s

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability involves monitoring and managing the internal state of data systems to gain insight into the data pipeline, understand how data evolves, and identify any issues that could compromise data integrity or reliability. Data is the foundation upon which strategies are built, directions are chosen, and innovations are pursued.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

This methodology aims to improve software system reliability using several key categories such as availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Organizations that are new to both practices will want to adopt a strategy that incorporates both. What are SLOs?

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. All Things Distributed. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Comments ().

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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. Use cases We found several use cases where a system like AutoOptimize can bring tons of value. We can also reorganize the metadata to make file scanning much faster.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

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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. We call this system Cosmos.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

SLOG: serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions Ren et al., SLOG is another research system motivated by the needs of the application developer (aka, user!). Building correct applications is much easier when the system provides strict serializability guarantees. VLDB’19. Is my data at home?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.Â

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.

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