The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. By segregating transaction logs and harnessing the power of dedicated storage, DLVs contribute to enhanced efficiency and consistency.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 96

DZone

JULY 6, 2020

TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Ideally, a TiDB cluster should always be efficient and problem-free. For external reasons, application traffic may surge and increase the pressure on the cluster.

Open Source 130

Open Source Latency Traffic Analytics 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

During development, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open source code or make an error in application logic. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns. Vulnerability scanning tools can help in both of these cases.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 159

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. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

Cloud 284

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 284

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 89

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. This can help to ensure that the website or web application remains available and responsive, even during periods of high traffic.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. provides higher compression rates.

Storage 108

Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis. As you explore MySQL’s capabilities, consider incorporating Priority-Based Error Log Filtering into your toolkit for a more efficient and targeted approach to database management.

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Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 93

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Developers can stay up to date and improve their skills with the help of many community-made tools, like lessons, groups, and open-source projects, thus building a successful PHP Development Company in India. If you hire PHP developers in India , like our company, we can help you produce the best results efficiently.

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

Analytics 179

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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 Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code? But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This setup empowers your database to efficiently manage increased data volumes, enhance performance, and maintain availability. A security group in AWS for PostgreSQL with inbound rules allowing traffic on ports 5432 , 5433 , and 5434 for PostgreSQL. This tutorial will use Ubuntu 20.04 and Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.

Scalability 85

Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 85

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. It enables you to use popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka in Azure cloud environments. Azure Front Door enables you to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability.

Azure 145

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 145

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Who uses Redis?

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

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. We describe how doing so not only reduces network traffic, but also allows for fast crash recovery, failovers to replicas without loss of data, and fault-tolerant, self-healing storage.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Broad-scale observability focused on using AI safely drives shorter release cycles, faster delivery, efficiency at scale, tighter collaboration, and higher service levels, resulting in seamless customer experiences. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version.

Cloud 162

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 162

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There has got to be a balance between the propagation and duplicative storage as far as the savings that would be realized by the efficiency of saving requests. Speaking of storage efficiency, I’m certain that storage just sitting on disk takes a lot less electricity than files being sent over networks — but it still has a cost.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. " Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. This is it. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobile app testing uses many mobile automation testing techniques to ensure that they are ideal and perform well in various traffic conditions. Enhanced efficiency. When there is a high traffic. This open-source tool supports multiple languages like Ruby, C#, Java, etc.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Testing Tools Open Source 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. 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

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Both are open-sourced frameworks using JavaScript. ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library. Reactjs has the capability of server-side rendering, which offers a power boost to the SEO of a web page or an application and helps in fetching more organic traffic. React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 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. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

These apps offer several benefits for both patients and providers including convenience, accessibility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Healthcare web apps improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services as they bring down costs, and improve patient satisfaction and positive engagement.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Social Media Development Artificial Intelligence 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +. About the Author.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126