The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware.

Cloud 291

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 291

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. Although modern cloud systems simplify tasks, such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers, hybrid cloud and multicloud environments are often complex. Reliability.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure. Finally, observability helps organizations understand the connections between disparate software, hardware, and infrastructure resources. How do companies reliably find, review, and analyze this data?

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! A highly distributed architecture like this has a lot of potential for performance and architectural hotspots.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. It allows for the breaking up of heavy monolithic architectures into multiple serverless “functions.” Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news. Optimize timing hotspots.

Serverless 217

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With the rich set of features in Dynatrace for diagnostics (check out my Advanced Diagnostics with Dynatrace YouTube Tutorial ) it speeds up analysis and diagnostics for Christian significantly. If you want to replicate Christians work – here are the software and hardware specs: Hardware. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace.

Innovation 234

Innovation Metrics Hardware Open Source 234

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Dynatrace news. billion in 2020 to $4.1 What are logs?

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

To address this, state and local governments are adopting multicloud environments to achieve the necessary speed, scale, and agility to keep up with faster digital transformation. Unified observability is the key to success in resource-constrained local government agencies.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a nice building with good architecture! 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. Netflix headquarters circa 2014.

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

At best, this is a false summit on the right path; at worst, it’s a local maximum far from AGI, which lies along a very different route in a different range of architectures and thinking. The hard work has been done and reaching AGI is now a simple matter of scaling. We typically underappreciate how complex such systems are.

Games 136

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 136

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.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. A History of Architecture Support for Security. The figure above provides a timeline of architectural support for practical defenses, as found in commercial products.

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A scalable architecture needs to distribute work across many threads in order to facilitate all the CPUs of a physical or virtual machine. Locking is the Achilles heel of any multi-threaded architecture. Such behavior not only limits speed but also your ability to increase throughput by adding resources.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

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. Cross-region replication allows us to distribute data across the world for redundancy and speed. ”

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

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. What does 5G do to your battery life (i.e., 5G Coverage.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. At one extreme we have a ‘16 x 1’ architecture with 16 queues each with one associated processing unit.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

Cloud 98

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 98

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. The sharding architecture consists of several components: Shard Servers : Shard servers are individual nodes within the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 113

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 113

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. A future blog will continue my exploration into Citus by scaling out pgbench into other architectures.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old. QuickSight is a cloud-powered BI service built from the ground up to address the big data challenges around speed, complexity, and cost. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

Analytics 126

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 126

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

Google 73

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Taking protective measures like these now could protect both your data and hardware from future harm down the line. Redis, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, it modernizes data architecture, moves data management to the cloud, and automates processes, collectively decreasing data management costs and enhancing the productivity of database administration teams.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Taking protective measures like these now could protect both your data and hardware from future harm down the line. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Where VoltDB fits.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. This is that library.

C++ 130

C++ Lambda Network Programming 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

memory leaks that take hours to build up into an issue); and there can be problems that only exhibit themselves with certain user, hardware, or software configurations. Ambient faults due to e.g. hardware faults, network timeouts, and gray failures are occurring all the time, and many of these are unrelated to deployments.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. I highly recommend that you take a look at the diagram that breaks down the architecture and how it all works in this article. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore. Serverless Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. We have been able to meet our goal of architecting our application for 0% "maintenance downtime" Out of the box, RDS CloudWatch data and graphs speed up the troubleshooting process. And how about you Troy?

Innovation 112

Innovation AWS Education Network 112

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Unified data management architecture. Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49