The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI requires more compute and storage. Training AI data is resource-intensive and costly, again, because of increased computational and storage requirements. AI performs frequent data transfers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems.

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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.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. CompSciFact : 'Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.' -- Rob Pike. There are a few more quotes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive aims to solve this problem of exposing different namespaces and attaching appropriate access control to help build a scalable, performant, globally distributed platform for storing and retrieving pertinent assets. 2 , are the file system interface, the API interface, and the metadata and data stores.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. The coupling problem Until recently, video quality measurements were generated as part of our Reloaded production system. We call this system Cosmos.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. A recommended value is two times the number of CPUs plus the number of disks.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. The core component in Anna v11 is a monitoring system & policy engine that together enable workload-responsiveness and adaptability.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The key ingredients of Cloudburst are a highly-scalable key-value store for persistent state ( Anna ), local caches co-located with function execution environments, and cache-consistency protocols to preserve developer sanity while data is moved in and out of those caches. Updates should be allowed at any function invocation site.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Aurora.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Aurora.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. It provides support for a range of message protocols, buffering, and scalable message distribution to downstream services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. MongoDB is preferable for working with content management systems and mobile apps. It ranks No.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. Aurora Features High Performance and Scalability Amazon Aurora has gained widespread recognition for its exceptional performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for handling demanding workloads.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. System initialisation time.

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Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server. Dynatrace news. Citrix VDA. SAP server. Citrix VDA.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? 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 list goes on.

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IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

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. As said, the last one is probably the most powerful, scalable, and difficult to design, and unfortunately, it represents probably less than 5% of the solution currently deployed.

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