The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. allspaw : engineer: “Unless you’re familiar with Lamport, Brewer, Fox, Armstrong, Stonebraker, Parker, Shapiro.(and @coryodaniel : Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases. OK, Results?

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

Engineering 245

Engineering Scalability Systems Traffic 245

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. Serverless benefits include the following: Dynamic scalability. Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Efficient environment configuration at scale One of software engineers’ most significant challenges is managing the numerous tools and technologies required for the software product lifecycle. Development teams must set up tailored configurations for each tool and component they’re responsible for.

Best Practices 189

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 189

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Sharded time-series collections for improved scalability and performance. Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? x: Live resharding of databases for uninterrupted sharded key changes.

Best Practices 84

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 84

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. With the stored procedures framework, and the in-memory data storage engine, VoltDB drives most complex business logic in the lowest latency in a scalable manner, even in a virtualized environment like VMs and containers.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. With the stored procedures framework, and the in-memory data storage engine, VoltDB drives most complex business logic in the lowest latency in a scalable manner, even in a virtualized environment like VMs and containers.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Simform

JULY 20, 2022

Eventually, Snap’s wise selection of databases resulted in lower latency, desired scalability, and infrastructure cost savings. appeared first on Simform - Product Engineering Company. The post How to Choose the Right Database on AWS?

AWS 52

AWS Database Latency Scalability 52

Simform

JULY 13, 2022

AWS Lambda provides various benefits such as scalability, cost-efficiency, high availability, and more. But it also introduces cold starts and latency, decelerating your applications’ performance. This blog discusses how Lambda provisioned concurrency reduces cold starts and improves the speed and performance of your applications.

Lambda 52

Lambda Serverless AWS Performance 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Lambda’s toolbox of automated processes helps developers streamline to build fast, robust, and scalable applications on accelerated timelines. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. As The New Stack reports, developers spend only 32% of their time at work actually coding. It helps SRE teams automate responses.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

High Scalability

MARCH 1, 2019

It was made possible by using a low latency of 0.1 seconds, the lower the latency, the more responsive the robot. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

Internet 33

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 33

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics. We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 82

Cache Latency Traffic Database 82

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

InfoQ

AUGUST 10, 2020

After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers modified slightly Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%, Dropbox engineers Rishabh Jain and Daniel Reiter Horn maintain.

Performance 65

Performance Latency Google Engineering 65

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE) , failure is not only an option, but also expected. In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. Read : Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. A growing number of applications are relying on asynchronous and distributed processing, with scalability of the application as the primary motivation. Comments ().

Cloud 130

Cloud AWS Java Scalability 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East.

Cloud 154

Cloud Education Energy Government 154

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

While the addition of a user-interaction service increases the complexity of the user’s interaction with Team Service, it results in a more scalable and efficient architecture overall. In our implementation, as illustrated by message 9, we include a message time-out for late arrivals beyond a maximum latency time (TIME_OUT_LATENCY = 10 min).

Architecture 68

Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 147

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

In-memory computing has the speed and scalability needed to generate responses within milliseconds, and it can evaluate and report aggregate trends every few seconds. We are increasingly surrounded by intelligent IoT devices, which have become an essential part of our lives and an integral component of business and industrial infrastructures.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. It is important to understand these challenges properly to find solutions for them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. reliability situations, where continuity of service is essential, with redundant elements continuously in-service, such as with airplane engines. This ensures reliability.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Over the years, this platform took on support for both elastic online services and fully featured batch workloads supporting use cases across Netflix engineering.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As engineers, we often introduce all sorts of constructs in our architectures (whether in the cloud or on-premise) to compensate for the cases when databases under load do not deliver the rock-solid performance we need to serve our customers. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Storage Database 118

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119