The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the convergence of blockchain and autonomous vehicles promises to reshape the way we perceive transportation. Blockchain technology, known for its decentralized ledger system and secure transaction capabilities, is finding new applications in various industries.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Automotive Transportation Energy 52

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

/api/v2/otlp/v1/metrics'; $apiKey = '[API_KEY]'; // Set up trace environment $transport = (new OtlpHttpTransportFactory())->create($traceURL, 'application/x-protobuf', [ 'Authorization' => 'Api-Token '. By making our system observable, we immediately had detailed insight into what was going on at any given moment.

Transportation 186

Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 186

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. In the ensuing hours and days, Log4Shell became a showstopper for many organizations, requiring them to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to networks and sensitive data.

Healthcare 173

Healthcare Transportation Innovation Games 173

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Networking.

Open Source 301

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages.

Internet 146

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 146

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. You want to avoid the chaos of “shadow IT,” where stuff gets done outside your approved systems, and ensure that your security game is tight. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Many connectors allow the use of Windows Active Directory (AD) systems to talk with LDAP. MongoDB grants access to data and commands through role-based authorization and include built-in roles that provide the different levels of access commonly needed in a database system. Thankfully, LDAP can fill many of these gaps.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 40

Scalegrid

MAY 22, 2020

If the data churn on the master is high, the serving of binary logs alone could saturate the network interface of the master. Ensure to specify the network accessible hostname or IP address of your Ripple server as the -rippple_server_address. Connection endpoint for the Ripple server. Learn more. MySQL High Availability.

Servers 262

Servers Transportation Database Availability 262

Particular Software

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

At the height of the Cold War, the United States passed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, giving birth to the Interstate Highway System. They can be observed in our software systems as well. Maybe we add some kind of software library to our system, with the expectation of being able to build features faster or have cleaner code.

Systems 40

Systems Software Software Database 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., NDSS’19.

Operating System 43

Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 5, 2022

DNS , the "Domain Name System" that allows servers running at opaque and forgettable IP addresses to be found at friendlier names, like infrequently.org. Without DNS -backed systems like TLS there's little guarantee that content consumption will prevent tracking by parties even more unknowable than in the "web 2.0"

Blockchain 111

Blockchain Media Transportation Internet 111

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore. Workflow Status Listener Conductor can be configured to publish notifications to external systems or queues upon completion/termination of workflows.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. It’s designed for “ emerging architectures featuring fully integrated NIs and hardware-terminated transport protocols.”

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As an online booking platform, we connect travelers with transport providers worldwide, offering bus, ferry, train, and car transfers in over 30 countries. We aim to eliminate the complexity and hassle associated with travel planning by providing a one-stop solution for all transportation needs.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. After HTTP/2 has fulfilled its task of speeding up HTTP(S) and has become the basis for fast TLS connections, QUIC goes one step further by aiming to replace the TCP transport protocol in the Internet.

Transportation 51

Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In France, you can find one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in the world, a strong research community, excellent energy, telecom, and transportation infrastructure, a very strong agriculture and food industry, and some of the most influential luxury brands in the world. Our AWS EU (Paris) Region is open for business now.

AWS 115

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 115

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Real-Time Digital Twins Can Add Important New Capabilities to Telematics Systems and Eliminate Scalability Bottlenecks. Rapid advances in the telematics industry have dramatically boosted the efficiency of vehicle fleets and have found wide ranging applications from long haul transport to usage-based insurance.

Analytics 52

Analytics Architecture Scalability Software Architecture 52

Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

Value Stream Networks. Understanding how to create and connect a Value Stream Network, we must first understand the ground truth of enterprise IT tool networks. Defects : that impact product quality and the user experience (complex systems rely on fast response and resolution to issues.

Code 52

Code Automotive Government Network 52

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

Users can access interactive maps, trail recommendations, and educational content highlighting ecological systems, biodiversity, and conservation efforts. Historical time travel apps Transport users through time with an app that enables them to explore different historical eras through immersive storytelling and interactive experiences.

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

A region in India has been highly sought after by companies around the world who want to participate in one of the most significant economic opportunities in the world – India, a rising economy that holds tremendous promise for growth, a thriving technology hub with a rich eco-system of technology talent, and more.

AWS 90

AWS Cloud Healthcare Blockchain 90

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

IoT tracking systems. Use in traffic systems: Using IoT technology, delivery, traffic or transportation tracking, asset tracking, inventory control, customer management, and individual order tracking can be more cost-effective with the right tracking system. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

More than 20% of the goods will be made, packaged, transported, delivered without any external touch or effect. The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. By 2025, the person who orders the product will first be the person who touches it.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We’re back in 1968, a time when it was taken for granted that before building a system, it was necessary to design it. The systems under discussion are not restricted to computer systems either by the way – one of example of a system is "the public transport network."

Design 43

Design Transportation Systems Network 43

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

Open Source 186

Open Source Network Transportation Cache 186

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24). (Varonis) 65 percent of companies have over 500 users who never are never prompted to change their passwords.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

First, I don’t agree with the assertion that reliability alone is what’s important, or that it’s more important than latency, for the following reason: You can build reliable transports on top of unreliable ones. We can and do build secure reliable global banking systems on that. What happens when you encounter a reliability problem?

Latency 40

Latency Transportation Hardware Education 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team.

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

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