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. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls). amazon").

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. Briefly, let’s review the steps: The batch process is initiated by a cron job. the background image shown above).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Each queue is then processed by a separate Page Generation cluster that is launched to serve a particular partition. Once the generator is running, it processes the requests in the queue to compute the simulated pages. Generated pages are then persisted to an S3-backed Hive table for metrics processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Each queue is then processed by a separate Page Generation cluster that is launched to serve a particular partition. Once the generator is running, it processes the requests in the queue to compute the simulated pages. Generated pages are then persisted to an S3-backed Hive table for metrics processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Each queue is then processed by a separate Page Generation cluster that is launched to serve a particular partition. Once the generator is running, it processes the requests in the queue to compute the simulated pages. Generated pages are then persisted to an S3-backed Hive table for metrics processing.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a company, we aim to be curious, and to truly and honestly understand our members around the world, and how we can better entertain them. Wherever possible, A/B test results or causal inference studies are an expected input to this decision making process. In fact, not only are test results expected for product decisions?—?it’s

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