The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. A feature that enables you to present log data in a filterable table that is easy to work with. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 217

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Data visualization : how to present, explore and interpret observability data from serverless functions intuitively, clearly, and holistically?

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 207

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

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic.

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. These retail-business processes must work together efficiently to orchestrate customer satisfaction: Inventory management ensures you can anticipate and meet dynamic customer demand. Multi-channel logistics.

Retail 202

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 202

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. These systems enable vast amounts of data to be spread over multiple nodes, allowing for simultaneous access and boosting processing efficiency.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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.

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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. predict and prevent security breaches and outages. Website monitoring.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

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

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. These optimizations ensure that your CDN can handle growing user demands while maintaining fast and efficient content delivery.Â

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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. These optimizations ensure that your CDN can handle growing user demands while maintaining fast and efficient content delivery. Here are a few examples.

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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.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

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 117

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 117

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Zittrain points out that they “traffic in byzantine patterns with predictive utility, not neat articulations of relationships between cause and effect.” In the next blog, we’ll look at a few examples of how intellectual debt might begin to accrue unnoticed, with an eye towards its impact on IT efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Traffic Efficiency Innovation 149

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. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 106

Storage Network Open Source Latency 106

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

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

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries.

Traffic 121

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

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. I assume most of you have distributed systems that are very complex.

Cache 197

Cache Database Architecture Government 197

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.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 120

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.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

It is designed to widen the reach of application monitoring capabilities beyond web and HTTP traffic. Performance efficiency – Monitor desktop application performance over time, including legacy apps, for insight into their performance to help you validate your SLAs and meet the increasingly strict demands of today’s users.

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Monitoring Traffic Network Innovation 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

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

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers. In DR, load balancers route traffic to the secondary data center when a failover occurs. If carbon monoxide or other dangerous gasses were present, the gasses would kill the canary, signaling the miners to leave the tunnels immediately.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

COM201 Being ethical in tech: Sustainability tips for work and life — no video, but here is a video of Aerin Booth presenting an earlier version of the talk. Good example, well presented interesting new material. Engaging presentation on an important topic, with some good advice on optimizing ML workloads.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

For this article, I primarily rely on insights gained from analyzing data presented using the Core Web Vitals Technology Report. The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. On the other hand, the ratios of good origins are not weighted.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Presenting The Case For Sustainability. Being able to present a business case, and demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the costs, will help justify focusing resources in the area of sustainability. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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