The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An organization’s response to an incident, whether we are talking about downtime, security breaches or cyber-attacks, or even prolonged latency and repeated errors, is critical to the continued success of the business and trust from the customer or end user. SREs must manage complex distributed systems.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable. debian packages).

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. 5G expects a latency of 1ms , which considering that the speed of light means the data center can’t be more than 186 miles away, or 93 miles for a round trip, assuming an instant response. Watch the Video. Everything else is just Horns and Valkyries ….

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

by Eric Eiswerth Background Netflix has been offering streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) for over 10 years. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. The world has changed a lot in this time. It also means fewer engineering teams are required to support initiatives in this space.

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Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. However, some caveats regarding performance, scalability, and potential data conflicts exist. More after jump! On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, only highly scalable real user monitoring solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools have to sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code. How real user monitoring works.

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Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 180

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The main reason is because it decreases the latency to the user where they are located by serving your images from a POP physically closest to them. SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) allows vector graphics to be displayed in the browser. Player Card: A Card to provide video/audio/media.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. We needed scalability testing and performance testing as well.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Building upon Redis. Redis and Fast Data.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2. New feature requests were adding to the maintenance burden for the team.

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES). Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES). Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. We realized that we needed to consider a more global and scalable solution to better serve our global audience. This proximity significantly reduces the time it takes for the data to travel from the server to the user, thus reducing latency and improving load times.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

@TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution. Rajesh Menon : If machines are going to be seeing these images and video more than humans, then why don’t we think about redesigning the cameras purely for machines?

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. are divided. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency. Network Latency. Connection time.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

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Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

Compared to the most recent master version of libaom (AV1 reference software), SVT-AV1 is similar in compression efficiency and at the same time achieves significantly lower encoding latency on multi-core platforms when using its inherent parallelization capabilities.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This lowered latency more than 2x and delivered more than 10x improvement in latency variability on the network.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM. What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These rules determine to which origin data center each request will be directed, based on customer-defined conditions, within the Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure.‍For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. While it looks unassuming, it laid the foundation for the web we have today.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies. These results are possible for anyone given a scalable hardware solution. one without a replica). Want to dive deeper?

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Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. Scalability: Applications developed with Node.js with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Use cases of Node.js Micro-services. Back-ends and servers.

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

Here’s the real news though: there’s a full-on scalable API now. It’s just now it’s not a side project anymore, it’s got the support of a company dead-focused on helping developers. Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 Mobile Safari/537.36

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104