The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015!

Traffic 229

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 229

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Once I got that demo working on my laptop, my goal was to host it on a few university Linux servers that I had access to. Our university IT folks told me that I wouldnt be able to access the few Linux servers with enough CPUs and RAM needed to run Ollama, so I had to scrap my initial plans for self-hosting.

Code 83

Code Programming Servers Cloud 83

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. I had held out implementing an alternative to my simple blog server that had. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM.

AWS 120

AWS Website Storage Servers 120

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. It would not be a first that a customer thinks that his EC2 instance is down when in reality it is some name server somewhere that is not functioning correctly. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 111

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 111

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. There's no change required on the origin server.

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

Cloud 103

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 103

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. You can use the device world-wide and the cost is fixed on a daily basis. APAC Summer Tour.

Wireless 84

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 84

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Dedicated High Performance Compute clusters require significant capital investments and their procurement often has longer lead times than many enterprise class server systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 103

AWS Latency Storage Cloud 103

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Google 103

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Comments ().

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 95

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Contact Info.

AWS 66

AWS Storage Big Data Servers 66

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 121

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. And if they did have a poor experience, how would you know for sure?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Adrian Cockcroft

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its an open design developed starting in 2010 by David Pattersons team at Berkeley University, freely usable, kind of like Apache licensed open source software. Fujitsu used SPARC for everything from servers to embedded systems like cameras for a long time. Thats where RISC-V comes in.

Architecture 85

Architecture Mobile Government Design 85

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 90

AWS Cloud Games Latency 90

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates the AWS resources and application stack needed to run the application, freeing developers from worrying about server capacity, load balancing, scaling their application, and version control. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 97

AWS Cloud Java Scalability 97

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

As we announced earlier this month a Region with multiple Availability Zones will come online in Singapore in the first half of 2010, with other regions in Asia to follow later in 2010. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 29 September 2010 07:50 AM. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 63

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 63

SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. The desired plan shape can also be obtained against the smaller Stack Overflow 2010 data set if that is more convenient. See Myth: SQL Server Caches a Serial Plan with every Parallel Plan for details. MonthlyPosts AS. (

Cache 98

Cache Servers Processing Operating System 98

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 62

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 62

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am looking for new application and platform services. Comments ().

AWS 60

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 75

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 75

SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter. For the time being, let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14. The bigint type isn’t used for server-side parameterization.

Cache 90

Cache Servers Database Testing 90

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

Big Data 92

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 92

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 82

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 82

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. Comments ().

AWS 67

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 67

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Around the World in 28 Days. Comments (). Spot Instances - Increased Control.

AWS 65

AWS Cloud Storage Best Practices 65

Percona

MARCH 19, 2019

It was born in 2010 as “a feature for monitoring server execution at a low level.” Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Register Now.

Tuning 59

Tuning Performance Monitoring Servers 59

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

Internet 94

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 94

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. It also needs to handle every possible failure of storage devices, of servers, networks and operating systems, all while continuing to serve hundreds of thousands of customers. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

Storage 64

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 64

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Podjarny presents a series of increasingly larger-scope solutions to each issue, including client-side techniques and RESS (Responsive + Server Side). You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” ” – Andy King, 2003. Responsive and Fast.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 74

AWS Internet Internet Storage 74

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Big Data Internet 60