The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. Partitioning allows SQL Server to scale to the largest systems with record-setting performance. This means the readers use memory local to their CPU, reducing memory invalidations improving performance. Hash Table Sizes.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. Aug 24 - The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb , Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe, ACM SIGMOD Record 26 (4): 63â??68, Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. Lorie, G.F.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, but the data is also synchronised across all the devices on which a user works. It should work without a network. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge. It should work across multiple devices.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

. • More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43