The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases. OK, Results?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Additionally, the tight coupling with multiple native database APIs — APIs that continually evolve and sometimes introduce backward-incompatible changes — resulted in org-wide engineering efforts to maintain and optimize our microservice’s data access. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Application architectures might not be conducive to rehosting. Implement appropriate caching layers (for example, read-only cache for static data). Is the solution to just move all workloads to the cloud?

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Hacker News). Thoughts, Insights and Further Pointers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Architecture. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. High Level Design.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. The need for fast product delivery led us to experiment with a multiplatform architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering there is no eviction policy, and there are no cache misses. The Idea We decided to employ a total high-density near cache (i.e.,

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. Understand and optimize your architecture. With SnapStart enabled, function code is initialized once when a function version is published. Optimize timing hotspots.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. You can also analyze table metrics, such as cache hits and misses. Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. It was a Node.js The context around why the Node.js

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch is one of the best and widely adopted distributed, open source search and analytics engines for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured or unstructured data. It provides simple APIs for creating indices, indexing or searching documents, which makes it easy to integrate.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. For such workloads, shared-nothing architectures beget high cost, inflexibility, poor performance, and inefficiency, which hurts production applications and cluster deployments. joins) during query processing. of the persistent data on average.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace’s Lambda extension fully supports Arm-based architectures. Rather than processing simple time-series data, Dynatrace Davis®, our AI causation engine , uses high-fidelity metrics, traces, logs and real user data that are mapped to a unified entity model. Monitor your Graviton2-powered Lambda functions out of the box.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. Dynatrace news. This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By sponsoring the project, Netflix was able to help AuthZed prioritize engineering effort and accelerate adding Caveats to SpiceDB. Over time, each node caches a subset of subproblems to support a distributed cache, reduce the datastore load, and achieve SpiceDB’s horizontal scalability.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We assume a base multi-core processor four-way-issue load/store machine with 64-bit integer/address registers Rx, 128-bit (16-byte) data registers Vx, and an L1 D-cache that can do two operations per cycle, each reading or writing an aligned 16-byte memory word. Cache pollution is addressed in a section below.). Cache Underpinning.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. Amazon Redshift) and Elasticsearch machines.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. One of the powerful workflows to leverage is continuous release validation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer and the Data Gateway Platform , both of which are integral to Netflix’s data architecture. Once a range of data becomes immutable, we can safely do things like caching, compressing, and compacting it for reads. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. Please apply here. Apply here.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Validate correct architecture, configuration and deployment by looking at Service Flow! Engineers feel more empowered as they get immediate feedback on their code in production. NGINX as an API Gateway. 1 Validate Deployment.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Application shell architecture. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microservices architecture. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. Monolithic architecture takes a back seat with headless CMSes. With this microservices architecture, everything you got from your Traditional CMS does not come out of the tin.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

But since retrieving data from disk is slow, databases tend to work with a caching mechanism to keep as much hot data, the bits and pieces that are most often accessed, in memory. In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Engineers, like economists, deal with large amounts of data and pride ourselves on our clinical ability to analyze and solve complex problems. One of the premises expounded upon ( link ) is that engineering/computer science does not appeal to young women and they choose other careers. Hence the lack of women in our field.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A message-based microservices architecture offers many advantages, making solutions easier to scale and expand with new services. The asynchronous nature of interservice interactions inherent to this architecture, however, poses challenges for user-initiated actions such as create-read-update-delete (CRUD) requests on an object.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken.

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