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.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring vs log analytics.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

Tuning 124

Tuning Cache Storage Database 124

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

Metrics 183

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 183

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. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

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. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Like most IT professionals, Harikrishnan and the Parker team’s cybersecurity engineer Tom Hood have multiple requirements to manage, from implementing digital transformation and ensuring operational efficiency to securing IT systems. Unplanned system outages are costly, in both time and resources. Efficiency.

Benchmarking 176

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 176

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization. Blast radius.

Engineering 231

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Convolutional Capsule primitives can be implemented reasonably efficiently on CPU but problems arise on accelerators (e.g.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Easy deployment of Dynatrace OneAgent with AWS Systems Manager Distributor , AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and AWS CloudFormation. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars. Dynatrace and AWS.

AWS 146

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 146

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. Mean time to restore service.

DevOps 206

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 206

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues.

Database 91

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 91

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. Networking.

Open Source 307

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. These insights are critical to ensuring proactive application monitoring and optimal system performance. We looked at a hosts network devices, the flows between them and then at the process level details.

Government 231

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 231

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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. 0.3, -0.5, -0.7, and “problem authenticating” might be [0.1, 0.35, -0.5, -0.7,

Development 177

Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. 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.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Network Interface. Azure Automation accounts allow you to simplify cloud operations by automating the creation and deployment as well as the maintenance of resources in the Azure Cloud and across external systems. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates.

Azure 158

Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 158

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. We expect these bitrates to evolve over time as we get more efficient with our encoding techniques. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. We began streaming 5.1

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Another configuration we can use to increase the efficiency of parallel execution on the slaves is to tune binlog_group_commit_sync_delay on the master. This is essentially as described by the CAP theorem about the limitations of any distributed system. Stay tuned!! rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_no_slave.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Parallel run : Operating both the existing and new database system simultaneously during the transition, allowing for a seamless fallback in case of any issues. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Particular Software

APRIL 9, 2018

Based on our experience running business systems in production, we know we need to monitor our theme park to make sure it's working properly. We can use this data to extrapolate when we need to upgrade the electrical system, add a new water pipe, add more bays to our carpark, or commission more trucks to haul away our trash.

Systems 40

Systems Infrastructure Monitoring Tuning 40

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. 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. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

" To make things even more challenging, a system that can handle a single large training job is not nearly good enough if training jobs are slow or expensive. This post lifts the veil on some of the scientific, system design, and engineering decisions we made along the way. Post-training model tuning and rich states.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. Developers and System Administrators alike will find incredible information between the covers. If you loved our first recommendation, then check out the sequel!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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. You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. This technique simulates interactions in a complex system.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. OKRs (objectives and key results) are a popular management system for setting and reaching aspirational goals.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This result s in w eb – service integrations perforat ing firewalls, network content not being captured by intrusion detection and vulnerability scanners miss ing what’s running in production. . One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management.

Cloud 294

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105