The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation. These joint efforts took several weeks for both parties.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Those looking to comply with the upcoming Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) will have access to secure infrastructure that meets the most rigorous international compliance standards. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. We’ll continue to add new infrastructure to grow our footprint and make AWS as useful as possible for all of our customers around the world.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones. Public sector.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

It is versatile enough for deployment in cloud-based infrastructures, on-premise data centers, or local setups, delivering a dependable and adaptable messaging framework. Furthermore, RabbitMQ embraces an acknowledgment pattern within its infrastructure, ensuring reliable message processing. RabbitMQ in Action. Manning Publications.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. This part of the actual SSPL language speaks volumes: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

As Tyler Akiadu, from Google, explained in his Strata NY 2017 presentation, “ Foundations of streaming SQL ”: “Streams are the in-motion form of data, both bounded and unbounded.” We can see a table as an consolidated view of a stream of events over time.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. It also lets you perform mobile website testing on throttling network conditions – a scenario that is so real in today’s world where the usage of mobile internet is rising at an alarming rate! Mobile Friendliness Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For developers and decision makers with fast phones on fast networks this is a double-whammy of hidden costs.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

Value Stream Networks. As detailed in Mik’s bestselling book Project to Product , in 2017 Mik was invited by René to BMW’s state-of-the-art Leipzig plant in Germany. Understanding how to create and connect a Value Stream Network, we must first understand the ground truth of enterprise IT tool networks.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. I think under the hood AWS has replicated the core ideas of TrueTime infrastructure [5] with some variations like smoothing out leap second.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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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. New deployments of code and infrastructure, or unusual activity like failure modes could change the characteristic positions of each peak.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider? Conclusion.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. Symantec) With that in mind, it’s important to have secure infrastructure in place at all levels to minimize the threat of data breaches. This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24).

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. ” Read it here!

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. This architecture runs on cloud technology, and developers can focus on the code instead of the scaling, maintenance, and infrastructure facilities. Alibaba : Alibaba’s implementation of PWA resulted in User engagement increased to 76%. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. Modern network performance and availability. The Moto G4 , for example. Hard Reset.

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) . from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) showing the technological revolutions, with added overlay to show the events that initiated each of the Turning Points . Microsoft will do well in the long run as B2B and work infrastructure becomes digital at an accelerated pace.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

The bulk of the paper is about the practicalities of running these algorithms at scale across a large fleet of devices: managing device availability, coordinating activity over unreliable networks and devices, building and deploying training workflows, and troubleshooting when things go wrong. Federated Averaging. ” Secure Aggregation.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Frequent contact with customers, good in-person communications between team members, along with practices like source control and testing, would just be in the air, like our Wi-Fi networks. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. They’d simply be what we do. Mike Loukides. Coincidence?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Blame The Network The next theory was that the network between the web browser UI (on the laptop) and the JupyterLab server was slow. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network. The UI apparently calls this function periodically , according to the network traffic tab in Chrome’s Developer Tools.

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