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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

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Open vulnerability on process group: The total number of currently high-profile vulnerabilities related to a process group. Vulnerability score: The highest vulnerability risk score for a process group. This way, the travel agency can easily streamline, organize, and consolidate their quality gates and metric evaluation process.

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FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

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Comparing the pros and cons of each approach helps to build an understanding of the trade-offs and make better calls about queueing strategies, improving your engineering skills in the process. After all, as the saying goes: " I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

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Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

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Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1. There is no best garbage collector.

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8 Ways to Improve Application Performance

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Slow performance, or high latency, can lead to frustrated users and lost revenue for the organization. From a high level, application latency refers to the delay between the user's request and the application's response. Slow applications can slow down business processes, leading to decreased productivity and increased costs.

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Transforming Business Outcomes Through Strategic NoSQL Database Selection

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Factors like read and write speed, latency, and data distribution methods are essential. But if your application primarily revolves around batch processing of large datasets, then focusing on write speed could mislead your selection process. Yet, they are often evaluated in isolation, removed from the business context.

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How to Optimize CPU Performance Through Isolation and System Tuning

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CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. To achieve this level of performance, such systems require dedicated CPU cores that are free from interruptions by other processes, together with wider system tuning.

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