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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

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

Tuning Database Performance Hardware

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. Similarly, an increased throughput signifies an intensive workload on a server and a larger latency.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Mexico

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing. Hola Mexico!

Latency

Latency Tuning Cache Traffic

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. Stay tuned for more in 2022!

Cache

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics

MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X tcp_fin_timeout = 30 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl

Best Practices

Best Practices Design Tuning Database

Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Most of the business views created on top of the Iceberg tables can tolerate a few minutes of latency. Please stay tuned! Dehghani, Zhamak.

Big Data

Big Data Government Analytics Processing

Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. VQS is called using the measureQuality endpoint. The workflow is initiated.

Media

Media Innovation Metrics Latency

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

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

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

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

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet

Internet Internet AWS Performance

HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. As such, a micro-optimization is, again, how you probably need to fine-tune things on a low level to really benefit from it. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). What Does It All Mean?

Network

Network Servers Cache Traffic

Technology Performance Pulse

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Trending Sources

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Mexico

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

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