The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Many other Netflix staff spoke at re:Invent ( list here ).

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Fixed showing a warning message on the Kubernetes settings page, if Kubernetes events are enabled, while Log Monitoring v2 is disabled. (K8S-2150). Classic user sessions page end-of-life. New features and enhancements. Application Security. Cloud Automation. User Interface. APM-365567).

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Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 181

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Many other Netflix staff spoke at re:Invent ( list here ).

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments. Using this new mode of injection means organizations can take advantage of everything Kubernetes has to offer, without worrying about monitoring outages, or disruptions in service.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 305

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I wanted to present as much information as possible. This is where the consolidated API, which I presented in my last post , comes into play. Getting the problem status of all environments has to be efficient. Websockets allows efficient data push via multicast to browsers and D3.js Lightweight architecture. js framework.

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Storage Architecture Tuning Efficiency 198

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS, Azure, and Cloud Foundry.

Metrics 216

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 216

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

You can integrate Dynatrace with Azure for intelligent monitoring of services running in Azure Cloud. We’re happy to announce that now you can gain cloud monitoring excellence with Dynatrace for 15 additional Azure services, including: Azure Automation Account. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Container Instance. Azure Data Factory v1.

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Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 150

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Inside, you will learn: Why you should upgrade MongoDB Staying with outdated MongoDB versions can expose you to critical security vulnerabilities, suboptimal performance, and missed opportunities for efficiency. Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 85

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waiting queries mean waiting applications and users, and no one likes to wait!

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring, delivering the richest, most complete data sets in the Application Performance Management market.

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Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 215

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …] Notice that the vector consists of many zeros.

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Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. to monitor and diagnose. +50 50 applications, +1000 nodes, three environments, including qa, dev, production, are all being monitored by PMM.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 104

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Continuous improvement of services is the most efficient process for all teams that are looking to improve the performance of their applications by considering all layers of their architecture. For example, an athlete must be in tune with their body to know when something isn’t operating right which could impact their future performance.

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Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 159

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). Performance tuning The first critical move in performance tuning is query optimization. Once you’ve made your choice (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.),

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management. More modern tools can provide runtime insights into certain platforms, like Kubernetes or containers, but are still limited in their ability to detect which libraries are actually used vs. those that are present, but unused.

Cloud 280

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 280

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Eclipse is open source and has all of the features you’d expect out of an IDE such as PHP profiling, syntax highlighting and unit testing; however, it requires a lot of resources to run, which could present an issue for smaller development teams. Best PHP Performance Monitoring Tools 1. Best PHP Security Tools 1.

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Development Open Source Java AWS 57

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! We’d like to pack models as efficiently as possible on the underlying infrastructure. A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al.,

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. There are advantages and disadvantages to both presentations (cumulative for row mode, individual operator only for batch mode). hash table).

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. They all have to work well together to bring an ideal and effective final presentation. Stay tuned! Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

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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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it.

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Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

via built-in logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting and error classification. In each of these sections, you typically first record the change in state of the workflow and then perform steps to move the workflow forward, such as executing a Stratum function or returning the results of the execution (For more details, see this presentation ).

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

items that share the same hash value in their primary key): e.g. if there is a DynamoDB table with PlayerName as the hash key and GameStartTime as the range key, you can use local secondary indexes to run efficient queries on other attributes like “Score.” Efficient Queries. What are Global Secondary Indexes?

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. Images are the most popular resource type on the web and are often the largest.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145