The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. Marken architecture Above picture represents the block diagram of the architecture for our service. zookeeper service, internationalization service etc.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. Scalability: Serverless services automatically scale with the application's needs. Reduced operational overhead: Developers can focus purely on writing code and pushing updates, rather than worrying about server upkeep.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture. However, maintaining scalability and fault tolerance in this system is a difficult but necessary task.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This blog post will explore these exciting developments and what they mean for organizations. This integration showcases the strength of our partnership with AWS, helping joint customers achieve cloud governance, enhance scalability, and optimize their digital applications for maximum efficiency and resilience.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Applications must work as intended and make their way through development pipelines as quickly as possible. FaaS enables enterprises to deliver on the evolving expectations of fast and furious app development. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microservices architecture has revolutionized modern software development, offering unparalleled agility, scalability , and maintainability. However, effectively implementing microservices necessitates a deep understanding of best practices to harness their full potential while avoiding common pitfalls.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. A microservices approach enables DevOps teams to develop an application as a suite of small services. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. What is the monolithic architecture approach?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This thoughtful approach doesnt just address immediate hurdles; it builds the resilience and scalability needed for the future. Challenge: Dont understand the cascading effects of their setup on these perceived black box personalization systems - Personalization System Engineers Role: Develop and operate the personalization systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, microservices have emerged as a popular architectural pattern. This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The response schema for the observability endpoint.

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Microservices architecture promotes the development of applications, as suites of small, independent, loosely coupled services. scalability, reliability, faster development cycles, easier maintenance of individual services, etc., Because of its numerous advantages (e.g., Because of its numerous advantages (e.g.,

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale. By Artenisa Chatziou

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With the rise of microservices architecture , there has been a rapid acceleration in the modernization of legacy platforms, leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly scalable, low-latency, and more responsive services. Traditional blocking architectures often struggle to keep up performance, especially under high load.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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DZone

MARCH 23, 2023

The most important aspect of this shift has been the move from traditional API architectures driven by monolithic applications to containerized microservices. This shift not only improved the scalability and flexibility of our systems, but it has also given rise to new ways of software development and deployment approaches.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. This limitation has inspired us to develop a foundation model for recommendation. We see promising results from downstream integrations.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a nice building with good architecture! However, a more scalable approach would be to begin with a new foundation and begin a new building. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable. What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. Microservices allow teams to deploy and scale parts of their application independently, improving agility and reducing the complexity of updates and scaling.

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DZone

MAY 8, 2023

While both platforms share some similarities, they differ in architecture, scalability, high availability, container management, and learning curve. The question of which of these platforms wins the container war is a common one among developers, architects, and IT teams.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture. It’s a choice every developer must make. It’s pretty much same thing, different day. In many ways that’s good, but it’s not interesting to write about. How do you make that choice?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. It seeks to make Java EE programming easier and increase developers' productivity in the workplace.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It is much worse to be a software developer now. Martin Sústrik : Philosophers, by and large, tend to be architecture astronauts. Programmers' insight is that architecture astronauts fail. billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. I acknowledge that. There more.

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High Scalability

MARCH 1, 2019

It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? If you are a developer building your own platform (AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, or Heroku clone), then Kubernetes is for you. Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

JULY 13, 2023

Microservices architecture is a software development approach that structures an application as a collection of small, independent services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, such as APIs.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Developers play a crucial role in modern companies. If we want our product to be successful, we need to have a developer-first approach and include observability from day one. Read on to understand why. The World Has Changed Many things have changed in the last decade.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the commonly noticed challenges with companies adopting cloud-native architectures and a container-driven development journey is that they are not clear about why they’re choosing the path. The truth is that cloud-native architecture is a vast spectrum, and it means different things to different people.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved. create a microservice; 2.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture, enabling seamless integration and communication among disparate systems. Effective API management is critical to ensuring that these interfaces are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

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DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As organizations increasingly embrace the microservices approach, the need for a resilient testing framework becomes important for the reliability, scalability , and security of these distributed systems. In embracing a holistic and collaborative approach, let’s start by explaining the cornerstones of MRTF.

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InfoQ

MARCH 7, 2024

Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. By Rafal Gancarz

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