The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

It provides simple APIs for creating indices, indexing or searching documents, which makes it easy to integrate. Mapping is used to define how documents and their fields are supposed to be stored and indexed. All the assets of a specific type use the specific index defined for that asset type to create or update the asset document.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Prodicle Distribution allows a production office coordinator to send secure, watermarked documents, such as scripts, to crew members as attachments or links, and track delivery. One distribution job might result in several thousand watermarked documents and links being created. Things got hairy.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

Traffic 202

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 202

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

Documentation for new features or “internal only” knowledge is placed behind a feature flag. When logged in, staff have access to documentation that no one else can see. Example: API traffic with feature flags Imagine an API endpoint that a service calls to perform an action. What if I’m not doing CI/CD yet?

Infrastructure 198

Infrastructure Code DevOps Traffic 198

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. PostgreSQL in the cloud CPU Considering AWS as your cloud platform of choice, the configuration made for your infrastructure will influence the performance of your application and monthly costs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Discovery using global search. Users can trigger the global search from any context with CTRL/CMD +K.

Analytics 198

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 198

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. In this step, a pipeline picks our candidate change, deploys the service, makes it publicly discoverable, and redirects a small percentage of production traffic to this new service.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin. Hence, when attackers manage to infiltrate the CDN, they can effortlessly access and read the data as it has already been decrypted by the CDN.‍‍TLS

Strategy 52

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Unlike other popular programming languages such as C or Pearl, PHP pages have HTML with embedded code with some start and end processing instructions that allow you to jump directly into and out of PHP mode. Also, high-quality documentation is available for developers with any development issues and queries.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

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. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

If you’re new to Conductor, this earlier blogpost and the documentation should help you get started and acclimatized to Conductor. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Dynatrace baselines a multitude of metrics across all end users, applications, services, processes and infrastructure. If you want to learn more check out the documentation on service error detection rules. Rolled out Dynatrace OneAgents across their infrastructure for true FullStack Monitoring.

Mobile 129

Mobile Traffic Java Infrastructure 129

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin.

Strategy 40

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 40

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 185

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. Here is a step-by-step description of the processes involved: 1. To aid our transition, we introduced another Cosmos microservice: the Document Conversion Service (DCS).

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. The documentation is written for people that understand hardcore statistics with lots of greek symbols. For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 19, 2020

To drive productivity and boost efficiency, enterprises are increasingly automating their critical business processes. At the same time, navigating modern IT infrastructures can seem like stumbling through a maze, as they’re becoming overly complex, containing hundreds of technologies and billions of dependencies.

Monitoring 150

Monitoring Efficiency Processing Architecture 150

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. How much does all of this cost? A reasonable floor comes from Mozilla's annual reports. The Best Kind Of Correct #.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. 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.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Respondents who have implemented serverless made custom tooling the top tool choice—implying that vendors’ tools may not fully address what organizations need to deploy and manage a serverless infrastructure. In our analysis, we assigned experience levels to our respondents for some of the survey questions. Industries of survey respondents.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Take an alternative route due to a bad traffic jam! By default, Dynatrace detects process groups & services through a generic algorithm. At NYCM this approached works for most processes and services – but is too generic for some. Solution: Service & Process Group Naming Rules. Doc: Customize process group names.

Artificial Intelligence 109

Artificial Intelligence Mobile Java Processing 109

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Convenient Debugging : Debugging process is easy for the developers as single page application SPA offer developers tools. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Here are some of the most popular toolsets used to design and document APIs: Swagger. API- First Approach.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Any file uploaded by a user, from profile pictures to personal documents, is called a media file. Media Files. Media Files.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Logical backups such as mongodump are, in general, very time-consuming for large systems.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The CSS-Tricks website has good documentation on font-display.

Website 133

Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). To quote the Android documentation , a WebView is.: But neither has to be. What is a WebView?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

Juvenal Photo taken in Lisbon Portugal by Adrian Cockcroft The documentation for most monitoring tools describes how to use that tool in isolation, often as if no other tools exist, but sometimes with ways to import or export some of the data to other tools. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”?—?Juvenal

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

You should expect one-time implementation cost (depending CMS and business requirements it can cost 200,000 USD to 3M USD) and yearly hosting infrastructure cost (proportional to load and traffic but typically 30,000 USD - 300,000 USD per year). Pure CMS licensing cost can be anywhere between 50,000 - 500,000 USD a year.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74