The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. What about UHD video?

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency. Hardware resources. Wi-Fi usage.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors). Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. No gatekeepers.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106