The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. Real-World Example Problem. Real-time inventory management. Real-time order management.

Architecture 40

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. Real-World Example Problem. Real-time inventory management. Real-time order management.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post.

Latency 213

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

Cloud 163

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., It’s also a fabulous example of recognising and challenging implicit assumptions. It’s also a fabulous example of recognising and challenging implicit assumptions. ” Ten years of building on local file systems. .

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Caching improves performance, reduces bandwidth usage, and enhances scalability by reducing the load on the origin server.Faster Loading Times: Static content is pre-generated and does not require server-side processing. For example, BBC and CNN benefit greatly from dynamic content. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

AWS 167

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. Comments ().

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

Because it runs on a scalable, highly available in-memory computing platform, it can do all this simultaneously for hundreds of thousands or even millions of data sources. For example, consider some of the new capabilities that real-time digital twins can provide in fleet telematics and vaccine distribution during COVID-19.

IoT 52

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Caching improves performance, reduces bandwidth usage, and enhances scalability by reducing the load on the origin server.Faster Loading Times: Static content is pre-generated and does not require server-side processing. For example, BBC and CNN benefit greatly from dynamic content. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Lack of Testability Support in Products: A test automation system is a very basic requirement for Continuous Testing. To incorporate feedback on a continuous basis, you need feedback loops in the system that can help you gather feedback in real-time. Such scalability issues aren’t always noticeable in the beginning.

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? For example, if a health tracking device indicates that a specific person with known health condition and medications is likely to have an impending medical issue, this person needs to be alerted within seconds. The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Scalability. Developers don’t have to put in additional time to fine-tuning the system, or rely on other teams for support, as it’s done automatically with the cloud provider. However, when the time comes for resources to be requested, there can be latency in the time it takes to for that code to start back up.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

Systems 334

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. In a traditional IT environment, organizations may have had a team of system administrators managing complex systems. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In a nutshell, a data pipeline is a distributed system. As an example, if one of the steps in your pipeline is location data enrichment by referencing the IP address attribute of the incoming data stream with the geo-IP reference data then geo-IP reference data is a state which needs to maintained and updated on a frequent basis.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Historically, messaging has been an important building block for building highly reliable distributed systems. All Things Distributed.

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Freedom to transfer assets without reliance on a central system. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains.

Blockchain 45

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 45

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Freedom to transfer assets without reliance on a central system. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

AWS handles all the administration of the underlying compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, code and security patch deployment, and code monitoring and logging. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable. Here are three example use cases that we envision for the AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

Storage 115

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Fault tolerance The ability of a system to continue to be dependable (both available and reliable) in the presence of certain component or subsystem failures. This ensures reliability.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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.

Engineering 142

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

For example, this would occur if an image being served has an original width of 1460 pixels but is being served at 730 pixels to fit in the container that it has been placed in. The main reason is because it decreases the latency to the user where they are located by serving your images from a POP physically closest to them.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

Cache 224

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37