The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates. This approach worked well in 2013 due to the existence of monolithic services and a fairly uniform customer base, but became less effective as Netflix evolved.

Traffic 191

Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 191

DZone

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The upper size limit for ANSI PST is 2 GB, for Unicode PST in Outlook 2007 is 20 GB, and while in Outlook 2010/2013/2016/2019 is 50 GB. No one recommends large PST files; oversized PSTs are always prone to corruption. Oversized PSTs degrades the performance, and the biggest threat is they are more likely to get corrupted.

Efficiency 138

Efficiency Performance 138

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 11, 2013

As matter of fact I desperately wanted to write this post - to share my excitement for year 2013 and also humbling experience in 2012. Honestly speaking this post was due in first week of this month but it’s not too late for new year’s resolution.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Back in 2013, PostgreSQL surveyed their users to see which external programming languages was most often used with PostgreSQL, and found that Python only represented 10.5% PHP was actually the most popular language used with PostgreSQL in 2013, representing almost half of the responses from their survey at 47.1% use with PostgreSQL.

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Here are 2013’s favorites, in order of popularity. Time for the long-running (since way back in 2012 !) annual tradition of listing the top five most popular posts on this site of the past year. Why We Need Responsive Images. The responsive image discussion is the Never Ending Story of web technology.

Media 40

Media Design Technology Technology 40

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

So: Was I was right about 2013 estimates? release (early 2012) and probably another 18 months after that before most users will have upgraded (mid-2013). Then you’d be interested in judging what will be the likely mainstream hardware target up to mid-2013. Second, what about the higher potential line for 2013?

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 29, 2015

Survey of Local Algorithms , Jukka Suomela, in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys, Volume 45 Issue 2, February 2013, Article No.

Scalability 111

Scalability Network Systems 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

AWS 104

AWS Innovation Energy Best Practices 104

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. What’s causing this massive shift?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Percona

MAY 24, 2024

Since 2013, we have held these events in cities across the world […] Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, developers, and technologists at Percona University events!Percona

Open Source 88

Open Source Database Technology Technology 88

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I think the story not only impressed the audience because of our outfits (traditional Austrian Dirndl & Lederhosen), but because we were one of the few software companies that showed actionable results of a DevOps transformation that has been discussed in our industry since 2013 when Gene Kim released his famous The Phoenix Project.

Cloud 185

Cloud DevOps Engineering Speed 185

TechBeacon Testing

MAY 29, 2019

The year was 2013. Candy Crush was at the top of the App Store, Grumpy Cat was making rounds on the Internet, and I was introduced to a better way to test software that doesn't involve using test cases.

Testing 94

Testing Internet Internet Software 94

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! This spells great news for the web, where HTML, CSS, and JS have a very consistent and repetitive syntax. But, while Gzip is highly effective, it’s old; it was released in 1992 (which certainly helps explain its ubiquity).

Latency 302

Latency Servers Website Speed 302

Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

ScaleGrid is no novice when it comes to deploying and managing complex, sharded clusters in the cloud, as they have provided one of the most powerful sharding tools for their MongoDB hosting solutions since 2013.

Availability 113

Availability Open Source AWS DevOps 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. The contest will run through September 15 2013 after which a Judging Panel, which I am excited to be part of, will pick the winners. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. Comments ().

Cloud 87

Cloud AWS Open Source Infrastructure 87

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate. They help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to the AWS Cloud, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customer's AWS environments.

AWS 165

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 165

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

One in 10 people in the UK use illegal downloads, down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov's Music Report. Nick Farrell : Music piracy is falling out of favour as streaming services become more widespread, new figures show. You can't handle all the quotes that are coming your way.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

As you can see in the DB-Engines Popularity of Open Source DBMS vs. Commercial DBMS report below, open source has been steadily stealing market share from commercial vendors since at least 2013. While commercial still remains on top, open source is trending towards a majority within the next 12 to 18 months.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 2, 2014

A very happy new year to all my readers. The excitement of making resolution in new year’s week is practically irresistible. So here I am. This post is for myself more than anyone else.

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TechBeacon Testing

JUNE 5, 2019

"I don't always test," muses the Most Interesting Man in the World, on one of the most evergreen tech meme posters of all time, "but when I do, I test in production." I have been laughing at that meme ever since someone posted it on the wall at work way back in. It's hilarious!

Testing 82

Testing 82

Tim Kadlec

MAY 5, 2013

A week from now I’ll be on a plane heading to Amsterdam for the excellent Mobilism conference. This is year three for them, and you only need to take one look at this year’s program to see just how incredible the event is going to be. The lineup is full of great speakers with fantastic topics to discuss!

Mobile 40

Mobile Programming Availability Performance 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 29, 2013

This is a tough year for me to list my top three non-fiction and fiction books because there were a lot of really good ones—particularly in fiction. The fact that there were so many great books probably contributes to why I was able to reverse the downward trend in my book count the past few years.

Mobile 40

Mobile Programming Design Technology 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2013 11:00 AM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Feeling the Customer Love for AWS. Comments (). We work hard to meet our customers expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf.

AWS 77

AWS Innovation Scalability Systems 77

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!). Comments (). We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers.

AWS 87

AWS Scalability Systems Performance 87

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 11 February 2013 04:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Comments ().

AWS 81

AWS Media Scalability Storage 81

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Comments ().

AWS 145

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 145

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. What I want to cover in this blog post is how I think platforms should be structured, and why it’s always plural, there isn’t one platform or one platform team. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Xen AWS 2013 Starting in 2013, some EC2 instance types began supporting hardware virtualization for network interfaces: Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). This was because most of our workloads are CPU and memory bound, which were already virtualized in hardware. The first was c3. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

APRIL 12, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 12 April 2013 04:00 AM. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational Databases. Comments (). Joins are one of the fundamental relational database query operations.

Processing 76

Processing Database Efficiency Scalability 76

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. Comments (). I am thrilled that now both Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS support resource-level permissions.

Cloud 90

Cloud AWS Database Scalability 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments (). Time passes very quickly around here and I hadnâ??t

Ecommerce 123

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

SQL Performance

JULY 24, 2022

I wrote this 2013 post as a response to seeing many people try to delete millions of rows from very large tables, and face blocking that crippled their applications. In the very first post on this site, I compared the performance of long-standing running totals methods with the new windowing functions added in SQL Server 2012.

Servers 66

Servers Strategy Availability Processing 66

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. Read on for a deeper look into RedHat’s Kubernetes platform, what it can do for you, and the benefits of OpenShift automation.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The existing system was based on a rule-based architecture with hand-crafted rules and had been in production since 2013. The original system (in production since 2013) using hand-written rules for field extraction, developed over many years. " Switching to a Software 2.0 In the Software 2.0

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84