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

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. 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. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. 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. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

This allows local councils to keep certain streets well lit, to accommodate high foot traffic, bring on lighting during adverse weather, when ambient light dims to a dangerous level, or even turn lighting down, for example in an industrial estate, where there are no people. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

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.

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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. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

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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.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

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. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally!

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Cloud monitoring types and how they work.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

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.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

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. As you can imagine, this comes with very real storage costs.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 112

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Some of them include: Redundant hardware: Both HA and DR use redundant hardware components, including servers and storage devices. It’s suitable for databases with moderate change rates.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

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.

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Blockchain Automotive Transportation Energy 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. This is it.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) 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). It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

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.

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Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

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. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

On the other hand, when one is interested only in simple additive metrics like total page views or average price of conversion, it is obvious that raw data can be efficiently summarized, for example, on a daily basis or using simple in-stream counters. A group of several such sketches can be used to process range query. bits per unique value.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 12, 2023

The front-end of the website is what you see and interact on the display on the screen and the backend is the logical part of the app that has components such as storage, coding, content management, etc. Moreover, developers can also make prototypes, test the app, and develop the application efficiently with the Headless CMS.

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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 ‍Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

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). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. In the absence of measured data, a model based on a table of default values measured on datacenter systems could be used, taking into account CPU types, power usage efficiency (PUE), and over-all utilization levels.

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Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether you're scaling storage solutions like S3 buckets, compute resources like EKS clusters, or content delivery mechanisms via CDNs, Terraform offers a streamlined approach. Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance. This consistent performance is a big part of why the Snapchat Stories feature , which includes Snapchat's largest storage write workload, moved to DynamoDB. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Just from a quick search, see this presentation PDF , which digs into oops message components. It's the official profiler.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Image source ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. It isn’t supported consistently and has some caching issues (see slide 114 onwards of Hooman Beheshti’s presentation ).

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