The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Finding the best place to throttle traffic Zuul can apply load shedding in two moments during the request lifecycle: when it routes requests to a specific back-end service (service throttling) or at the time of initial request processing, which affects all back-end services (global throttling).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. The goal is to process these documents as fast as possible and reliably deliver them to recipients while offering strong observability to both our users and internal teams.

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KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature! How Does Image Processing Work? The Image Processing feature is available on all Pull Zones. Enabling the Origin Shield setting is required because all image processing will occur at our shield locations. For example, the query string ?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Already in the 2000s, service-oriented architectures (SOA) became popular, and operations teams discovered the need to understand how transactions traverse through all tiers and how these tiers contributed to the execution time and latency. In 2019, the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects merged into what we now know as OpenTelemetry.

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 279

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. km university campus.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

latency, startup, mocking, etc.) The results in Figure 12 reflect what we know of the cloud market and mirror what we found in our cloud native survey from earlier in 2019. Custom tooling could simply be a shell script or cron job that is unique to a build process, but starts a chain of existing tools provided by various vendors.

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Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

In one week’s time, thousands of IT and business professionals will descend on London for the latest iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 (June 25-27 – InterContinental O2, London, UK). Here are four tips to get the most out of DOES London 2019: Tip #1 – Develop a plan of attack. The countdown is on.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

That’s not just theoretical, Facebook actually did this in production while Delos was processing over 1.8 For Facebook’s Delos, reconfiguration latencies of 10s of ms are ok. The overheads of virtualisation are pleasingly low: about 100-150µs at p99 latency, 10s of ms for reconfiguration, and no impact on peak throughput.

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? " package.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 117

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Without beating around the bush, our ASP 2019 device was an Android that cost between $300-$350, new and unlocked. These devices feature: Eight slow, big.LITTLE ARM cores (A75+A55, or A73+A53) built on last-generation processes with very little cache. 4GiB of RAM. Qualcomm has some 'splainin to do.

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Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors). The criticality score is combined with a safety score and experiment weight (failure experiments, then latency, than failure inducing latency) to produce the final prioritization score.

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Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

Today we’re jumping from HotOS topics of 2019, to hot topics of 1977! In such a situation I’d expect to see unusually high latencies, but normal throughput). Processes (or in the case of System R, transactions) can also bump into each other when contending for shared resources. The convoy phenomenon Blasgen et al.,

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Traffic Latency Programming Scalability 75

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A DNS lookup is the process of turning a human-friendly domain name like example.com into the machine-friendly IP address like 123.54.92.4 Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Drew McLellan. DNS Prefetching.

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Performance Servers Games Cache 109

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

This allows us to process the report later without resulting in a messy pyramid of JavaScript. Estimated input latency - Estimated Input Latency is an estimate of how long your app takes to respond to user input, in milliseconds, during the busiest 5s window of page load. then(results => { return chrome.kill().then(()

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Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

Problem Statement The microservice managed and processed large files, including encrypting them and then storing them on S3. biolatency From [bcc], this eBPF tool shows a latency histogram of disk I/O. This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

rc3-custom #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 14:07:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-rc3-custom Benchmark on a Parallel Processing Monster! So lets take an Ubuntu system with Platinum 8280 CPUs with the following Ubuntu OS, reboot and check the CPU configuration before running any tests.

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. This is useful if you want to store optimized images instead of using a real-time image processing service.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

HotStorage 2019. Applications running on BNVM (byte-addressable non-volatile memory) must have a way to create pointers that outlast a process’s virtual address space and are valid in other address spaces. At 0.4ns, we’re in the same ballpark as regular L1 cache reference latency. The last word.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. 12.9.0 – August 20, 2019; 16.8.6 – May 6, 2019. Reactjs makes API calls and processes in-browser data. Scalability: Applications developed with Node.js can be scaled vertically and horizontally to improve their performance.

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Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

John McCalpin

JULY 23, 2018

Updates on 2019-01-23 in blue. When running a single user thread, you will often get the advertised single-core Turbo frequency, but if the operating system enables more cores to handle (even very short-lived) background processes, your frequency may drop unexpectedly. RDTSCP can still be executed later than expected, but not earlier.

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John McCalpin

JULY 23, 2018

(From a recent post of mine on the Intel software developer forums — some potentially useful words to go along with my new low-overhead-timers project…) Updates on 2019-01-23 in blue. This will change randomly (upward) if the OS schedules another process on the same logical processor during your measured section.

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Code Programming Latency Testing 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

Problem Statement The microservice managed and processed large files, including encrypting them and then storing them on S3. biolatency From [bcc], this eBPF tool shows a latency histogram of disk I/O. processing parts of the file, instead of making multiple passes over the entire file). ## 7. Mostly screenshots. ## 1.

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Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . Note that the following section applies in particular to pre-2019 versions of MySQL and MariaDB and more recent versions of MySQL 8 have already been updated for optimal performance on multiple platforms and therefore the change is this section is not required).

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. On high latency connections, this saving could be tangible.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 270

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Complex compression algorithms may require higher processing power to encode/decode images. A complex decoding process can slow down the rendering of images. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Since its release in 2019, the support for AVIF has increased considerably.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network.

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