The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

In a previous post , we described how our TV application consists of a C++ SDK installed natively on the device, an updatable JavaScript user interface (UI) layer, and a custom rendering layer known as Gibbon. Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. The other colors are yellow for C++, and red for other user-level code.) The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system. A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue.

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Cache Cloud Java Code 141

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I don’t get to Europe very often apart from ISO C++ standards meetings, but this spring I’ve been able to accept invitations for two English-language European events in the last week of April. Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). Description. Sat Apr 29: ACCU closing keynote (Bristol).

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) The lock manager has partitions, lock block cache and other structures. Reduce the number of partitions and size of the cache. IO Request Caches. SQLPAL may cache I/O request structures with each thread. SQL Server 2017. Lock Manager.

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IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. Here is a summary of the queries: Simple queries: select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'. The second and third run used the cached data.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 48

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

Bill Kaiser of NewRelic published this blog in 2017 which goes some way towards what I’m talking about, but since then I have figured out a new way to interpret the data. > system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5, What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times? . >

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. The other colors are yellow for C++, and red for other user-level code.) The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system. I worked on this code back at Sun.

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