The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As Big data and ML became more prevalent and impactful, the scalability, reliability, and usability of the orchestrating ecosystem have increasingly become more important for our data scientists and the company. Motivation Scalability and usability are essential to enable large-scale workflows and support a wide range of use cases.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Here are some examples.

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High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Yep, there's more.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Not so many this week.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, just one application security gap could jeopardize an entire mission, triggering a wide range of consequences. Traffic lights on a busy stretch of road could go dark. Neglecting security during the development process or at runtime when new threats can emerge could lead to disastrous consequences.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Example use case: Content Knowledge Graph Our knowledge graph of the entertainment world encodes relationships between titles, actors and other attributes of a film or series, supporting all aspects of business at Netflix. Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. The reason lies in the unique advantages that come from utilizing a hybrid cloud.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For example, it is OK to send writes through one instance, and do reads from another one with full data read consistency guarantees. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution. Kubernetes is a good example here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections. That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. DevOps teams need automation that goes beyond passive observations.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Following is the example of tables primary and clustering keys defined: Figure 2. But with this framework, it has to be designed more carefully as bulk data reprocessing will be done in parallel with the production traffic.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. For example, in Reloaded the video quality calculation was implemented inside the video encoder module. As an example, in Reloaded, the video encoding module bundles 5 steps: 1. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But for those who are not so familiar, in this post, we will discuss how Kubernetes has emerged as the unsung hero in an industry where agility and scalability are critical success factors. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While developers edit files, a simple CLI command applies configurations to Dynatrace and, for example, automates the setup of a quality gate, including workflows and Site Reliability Guardians. Stay tuned for more examples and easy-to-adopt automations provided in our public Github project.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. These factors can impact the efficiency and scalability of a system.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Measure cloud resource consumption to ensure resources are scalable and keep up with business requirements.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Here’s an example: mongo --host <hostname> --port 27019 Run the rs.initiate() command on one of the replica set members to initiate the config server replica set.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s take our previous screenshot as an example.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Keeping in mind the example above, where we have a shop online serving multiple customers, we need to identify which is the most effective way to split the data. As said, the last one is probably the most powerful, scalable, and difficult to design, and unfortunately, it represents probably less than 5% of the solution currently deployed.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Recent examples include: The Equifax data breach, in which the private records of 147.9 Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. What is web application security? million Americans, 15.2

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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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 An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

With streaming services, for example, excessive downtime could result in significant financial and reputational losses for the business. For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic.

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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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Developers can use logs, for example, to identify areas of code that are executed more frequently than needed or run for longer durations than expected. When it comes to security, logs can capture attack indicators, such as anomalous network traffic or unusual application activity outside of expected times.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. The community of PHP developers develops frameworks, libraries, and other development tools to build highly scalable, robust, and feature-rich PHP websites. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. If a user encounters an error page on a website, for example, it’s vital to trace the behavior to the original source of failure. While this provides greater scalability than on-site instrumentation, it also introduces complexity. AWS Lambda.

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