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

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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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.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

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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. In a nutshell, a data pipeline is a distributed system.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS is ideal for mission-critical online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads that require a high performance storage option with consistent IOPS, within a narrow band of tolerance. Provisioned IOPS storage in RDS. Comments ().

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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.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). Under the hood, the BlueData used several enhancements to boosts the I/O performance and scalability of container-based clusters. Storage provisioning.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

An SSR application will generally have templating engines that inject the variables into an HTML when given to the client. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern. has a whole section talking about SEO optimizations on their framework.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

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.

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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.

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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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There is more than one Werner Vogels in this world and although I never get emails, snail mail or phones calls for any of my peers, I am sure they are somewhat frustrated if they type in our name in a search engine :-). All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

From an engineering perspective this may be all that you need to know. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput. The simple answer is nothing, the workloads are exactly the same workloads derived from the TPC-C and TPC-H specifications and HammerDB v4.0

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Science & Engineering. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. an engineering adventure to break the 1,000 mph barrier in a car.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. All Things Distributed.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. At a minimum, transactions are flushed once per second. and MariaDB 10.5.4

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Modularity and flexibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle is one of the many applications that is at the exciting intersection of connecting the world of content productions to Netflix Studio Engineering. We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. Redis can handle a high volume of operations per second, making it useful for running applications that require low latency. It ranks No. Couchbase — No.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Amazon’s enhancements address many day-to-day challenges with running Redis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive aims to solve this problem of exposing different namespaces and attaching appropriate access control to help build a scalable, performant, globally distributed platform for storing and retrieving pertinent assets. It exposes a file/folder interface for applications to save their data and an API interface for control operations.

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Media Storage Architecture Cloud 174

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. It provides support for a range of message protocols, buffering, and scalable message distribution to downstream services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. We call this system Cosmos. The workflow is initiated.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. Related Articles.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The key ingredients of Cloudburst are a highly-scalable key-value store for persistent state ( Anna ), local caches co-located with function execution environments, and cache-consistency protocols to preserve developer sanity while data is moved in and out of those caches. Updates should be allowed at any function invocation site.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. are divided. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. .

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