The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally. queries/sec.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. Partnering to Productize Security Jose & Arthur (Netflix Cloud Gateway): The Cloud Gateway team develops and operates Netflix’s “ Front Door ”.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. The imagery needs to be localized.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This is to handle the large volume of poll requests coming from subscribed clients without passing on the traffic to the Cassandra cluster. Incremental rollout When deploying new code, it’s often a good idea to canary new builds with a subset of traffic, roll it out incrementally, or otherwise de-risk a deployment by taking it slow.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. The repeated use of a write request followed by a flush request may be detrimental to performance and will increase traffic on the I/O bus. Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The Supermarket After slicing my way through the supermarket-trolly traffic jam at the main entrance, I shimmied my way around the dawdling potato connoisseurs in the vegetable aisles, and majestically faked to the right and went left around a confused pensioner who wasn’t sure whether he wanted to look at dairy products or cooked meats.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. And beyond title recommendations, we strive to select and present artwork, imagery and other visual “evidence” that is likewise personalized, and helps each member understand why a particular title is a great choice for them?—?particularly

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