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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Network latency. Network Latency. The list goes on and on.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute. Also measured by round trip time (RTT).

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. In this common case, we do not need to implement a full sharding system such as Vitess.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. If your organization relies on a single point of failure in terms of DNS, you’re open to system failure due to disasters of both technical and natural origins from power outages to sophisticated attacks.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. The Baseline Scenario #.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" It is perhaps predictable that, instead of presenting a bulwark against stratification, technology outcomes have tracked society's growing inequality. " package.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks. The first technique is the most generally useful.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. latency, startup, mocking, etc.) Reduction of operational costs” was the No.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks. The first technique is the most generally useful.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. There is a system that receives events on user visits from different internet sites. This system enables analysis to query a number of unique visitors for the specified date range and site. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. To successfully uncover significant differences in user experience, we suggest using a performance monitoring system (like Calibre !) In PageSpeed 5.0,

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy. Our internal IPC traffic is now a mix of plain REST, GraphQL , and gRPC.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

First, I’d like to present a small analysis to provide some background. State of Content Management Systems ( CMS ) performance. I faced clients who requested support of IE 10- IE 11 because the traffic from those users represented 1%, which equalled millions of dollars in revenue. Latency matters. 30% - more than 1.5

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. This metric shows how much time it takes for the server to respond with something.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Raw content data along with templates are version controlled using Git or similar versioning systems. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language. Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. Let’s put it all together and review the system interaction diagram.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145