The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Does your traffic increase come with updated code changes that change the queries?

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

Efficiency 101

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 101

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications. Learn more.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. Proactively manage web and mobile applications based on user experience or traffic. Ramp up or down resources in real-time based on workload requirements.

Infrastructure 177

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 177

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Introduction Objective Driven Development (ODD) for some Business SLOs. It’s the same concept as Test Driven Development (TDD) where you start with tests that will fail until you finish implementing the code so tests will succeed. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development. Availability. Response time.

DevOps 210

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 210

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. Dynatrace gave them automated insights into traffic behavior and the impact of queued up requests to the end-users (up to 3s queue time).

Cache 201

Cache Architecture Database Government 201

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., Despite their age, these languages are far from dead!

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

We have also added teams in the Nordics to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. In addition, Hemnet's developers can now spin up temporary clones of Hemnet's entire application stack in just a few minutes. WirelessCar. Telenor Connexion.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Subsequently, many useful libraries get developed, making the language even more desirable to learn and use. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?”

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We’ve developed the fundamental skill of managing the “blast radius” of a failure occurrence such that the overall health of the system can be maintained. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.” Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. Total Cost of Ownership. t need them.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. We can scale up when generation is occurring and scale down when there is no batch in the queue. Let’s take a look at the internals of the Asset Management Service.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Focus on Application Development.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For many companies, that high ROI project may have nothing to do with IT, but for now lets keep focused on sustainable development and operations practices, which tend to dominate for “digital” product companies. Load peaks can be caused by inefficient initialization code at startup, cron jobs, traffic spikes, or retry storms.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies. Very Well!”

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies. Very Well!”

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Displaying cooperating, second-party content like ads. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. DevOps and cloud-based solutions mingle in such a synchronous manner, it seems like they were developed to support each other even though this is not true in any aspect. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps?

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data is geared primarily towards developers and IT professionals whereas insights need to be derived by not just technical professionals but also non-technical business users. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. But for many practical reasons, including security, numerous techniques have been developed to differentiate between different instances of chips.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47