The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. A firewall was blocking everything – the reported latency was the time it took the client to time out! Do it less.

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. A firewall was blocking everything – the reported latency was the time it took the client to time out! Do it less.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. of the “adjusted peak performance”, there is no longer a significant upside to performance tuning. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

Management of a professional capability is thus an exercise in making lots of adjustments, not pushing blindly ahead toward a solution. 5 Grand Prix Tune-Ups” F1 Racing Magazine. The principal objective in managing a highly-capable organisation is not to take decisions for each person, but to keep in alignment decisions people take.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. DynamoDB automatically re-distributes your data to healthy servers to ensure there are always multiple replicas of your data without you needing to intervene. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128