The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing ! The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. Our edge servers are directly linked to our global storage cluster, which ensures faster loading times of images. It only takes a few steps to upload and transform images.

Processing 78

Processing Storage Latency Servers 78

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

AWS 246

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage. See details below. See details below.

Storage 147

Storage Latency Operating System Network 147

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. SIGCOMM’20.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. With direct, actionable insights, prepare to navigate the complexities of rollbacks with confidence.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

While CPU Usage (Precise) is great for seeing how much CPU time a process is using, and why it is sitting idle, the CPU Usage (Sampled) table is the right tool for figuring out where CPU time is being spent. Now that we suspect file I/O it’s necessary to go to Graph Explorer-> Storage-> File I/O.

Latency 79

Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. Agustinus Theodorus.

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. High performance and mobility. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. On the other hand, these optimizations themselves need to be sufficiently inexpensive to justify their own processing cost over the gains they bring.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. for the wasm-version.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

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.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

My key takeaways as a TL;DR: Store your data in S3 Use portable data format that gives you future flexibility to process it with multiple different systems (e.g. InS does now offer an NVMe variant too, and the authors perform limited testing on that as well. Query performance. Key findings. Query restrictions. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). overall performance comparable to bare metal. Performance. Pachyderm uses default Kubernetes scheduler to implement fault-tolerance and incremental processing.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). High Performance I/O.

Cloud 117

Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Contractors that don’t want to pay publishers?

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 128

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 128

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Compare Pricing.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. Problem solved, right? Close, but not quite. Call fraud prevention. Financial Services: Credit card fraud prevention.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. Problem solved, right? Close, but not quite. Call fraud prevention. Financial Services: Credit card fraud prevention.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Capital-intensive storage solutions became as simple as PUTting and GETting objects in Amazon S3. Once you’ve created and tested your Lambda function, you can monitor its performance and activity in the AWS Lambda console dashboard or through AWS CloudWatch, including setting alarms on latency or error rates.

Lambda 136

Lambda AWS Cloud Scalability 136

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

Latency 177

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 177