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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g.,

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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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. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Combined with (delayed) advanced graphics APIs and threading support, WebXR enables critical immersive, low-friction commerce and entertainment on the web. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Offscreen Canvas. TextEncoderStream & TextDecoderStream.

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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. They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve. Configuration instead of code for updating SKU data, which improves innovation velocity. The world is constantly changing. Device capabilities continue to improve.

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