The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

Instead, it has been a process of continual improvements, by many engineers across the company. ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day? Most of my day is a 50/50 mixture of proactive projects, and reactive performance analysis. A latency outlier issue that happened every 15 minutes.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. the background image shown above).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

Metrics 100

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100