The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Expert Tip. Security Groups.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Next you record what effect you expect your mitigation strategy to have, which should drop its RPN and then let you focus on the new highest RPN, until there aren’t any high values left.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Next you record what effect you expect your mitigation strategy to have, which should drop its RPN and then let you focus on the new highest RPN, until there aren’t any high values left.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

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