IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A ‍What is CDN Architecture?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. A sneak peek into Hydrogen’s online integrated development environment. Large preview ).

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

This created a tipping point in the organization to help deliver a solution that would not only meet this need but easily tie into the existing platform and any network environment. They interface to differing degrees with network services, third-party APIs, and older legacy apps, creating a great deal of complexity.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Traffic Network Innovation 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Networking. Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Storage I/O. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Networking. Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Storage I/O. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 215

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 222

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. It’s easy to modify and adjust these dashboards as required, select the most important metrics, or just change the splitting of charts when too much data is presented.

Metrics 244

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 244

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. Network compression MongoDB also offers network compression.

Storage 113

Storage Network Open Source Latency 113

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

High availability typically involves redundant hardware, software, applications, and network components that can quickly take over if the primary component fails; disaster recovery typically involves regular backups, replication to a secondary site, and a clear recovery plan with steps to be taken in the event of a disaster.

Database 92

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 92

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 123

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 123

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

These vehicles have the potential to revolutionize the way we commute, offering improved safety, efficiency, and convenience. The stress and mental fatigue associated with these micro-decisions can be taxing, particularly when you’re trying to navigate through traffic or focus on the road.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Automotive Transportation Energy 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 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

In order to understand, reduce and optimize your systems, I recommend you watch my presentation on Top Performance Challenges in Distributed Architectures , where I highlight the most common performance problems: Too many roundtrips between services, e.g. N+1 Query Pattern. Infrastructure Optimization.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

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. These videos can easily be watched millions of times.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. Partnering to Productize Security Jose & Arthur (Netflix Cloud Gateway): The Cloud Gateway team develops and operates Netflix’s “ Front Door ”.

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) Depending on the open source database you are moving to, there are tools such as mysqldump and pg_dump that efficiently extract data and transform it to make this process easier and ensure seamless integration in the new environment.

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” Moving beyond point estimates is very close to present-day AI challenges.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. As applications have moved from local data centers to the public cloud, the role of DNS has expanded to the current role of a sophisticated director, controlling global and site load balancing, traffic steering, and providing intelligent response to user requests.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68