O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Speech recognition errors : ChatGPT’s speech recognition system (presumably based on OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model ) is very good, but it does at times misinterpret what I’m saying.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. By Andrei U.,

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved. The world is constantly changing.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Enter Google!

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76