The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle. Cells have seven nodes.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Moreover, just like an A/B test, we’ll be collecting metrics while the experiment is underway and performing statistical analysis at the end to interpret the results. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Is there an initiative to define a consensus on what “cloud native” means when evaluating virtual network functions? John Abraham] I don’t think so. There is not a consensus yet.

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Is there an initiative to define a consensus on what “cloud native” means when evaluating virtual network functions? John Abraham] I don’t think so. There is not a consensus yet.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. based on my short eBook, Cloud for CEOs ARC335 Failure is Not an Option ?—?a

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. based on my short eBook, Cloud for CEOs ARC335 Failure is Not an Option ?—?a

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

The concept of Zero Trust Networks speaks to this problem. It comes down to a key question: is the risk associated with an action greater than the trust we have that the person performing the action is who they say they are? Source: [link].

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