High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. This will not only reduce the overall latency in displaying the user-feeds to users but will also prevent re-computation of user-feeds. Sending and receiving messages from other users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

Latency 256

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 256

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. Soaring number of active connections.

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Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 263

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

Cache 228

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 228

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Reduced latency. Serverless architecture makes it possible to host code anywhere, rather than relying on an origin server. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users. Architectural complexity. Optimizes resources. Difficult to test. Difficult to monitor.

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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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Cloud Media Storage Cache 240

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We tried a few iterations of what this new service should look like, and eventually settled on a modern architecture that aimed to give more control of the API experience to the client teams. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice.

Latency 237

Latency Cache Java Traffic 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Customers can use response streaming to achieve the following: Improve Time to First Byte (TTFB) performance for latency-sensitive applications. Return larger payload sizes. How does Dynatrace help?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. A network administrator sets up a network, manages virtual private networks (VPNs), creates and authorizes user profiles, allows secure access, and identifies and solves network issues.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 233

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.

Cache 255

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 255

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

Latency 235

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 235

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. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 213

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team. We are serving over 2.5

Architecture 225

Architecture Latency Servers Systems 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Lambda’s highly efficient, on-demand computing environment aligns with today’s microservices-centric architectures, and readily integrates with other popular AWS offerings that an organization may already be using.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). Let’s talk about what Amazon ECS is actually doing.

Latency 156

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 156

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. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 218

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 218

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Increased latency during peak loads. Inconsistent network performance affecting data synchronization. Managing data residency while leveraging global edge networks.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While this abundance of dashboards and information is by no means unique to Netflix, it certainly holds true within our microservices architecture. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method).

Latency 297

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 297

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Our customers have frequently requested support for this first new batch of services, which cover databases, big data, networks, and computing. Azure DB for PostgreSQL. Azure SQL Managed Instance. Azure HDInsight. Azure Front Door. Azure Traffic Manager.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 227

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the back to basics readings this week I am re-reading a paper from 1995 about the work that I did together with Thorsten on solving the problem of end-to-end low-latency communication on high-speed networks. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g.

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Network Latency Operating System Speed 76

InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

Latency 101

Latency Scalability Database Performance 101

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

In summary, the Dynatrace platform enables banks to do the following: Capture any data type: logs, metrics, traces, topology, behavior, code, metadata, network, security, web, and real-user monitoring data, and business events. Maximize performance for high-frequency and low-latency trading strategies. Break down data silos.

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 246

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Here are two renderings of the same Gmail inbox in different architectural styles: one based on Ajax, and the other on "basic" HTML : The Ajax version of Gmail loads 4.8MiB of resources, including 3.8MiB of JavaScript to load an inbox containing two messages. Today's web architecture debates (e.g.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Failure can occur due to a myriad of reasons: misbehaving clients that trigger a retry storm, an under-scaled service in the backend, a bad deployment, a network blip, or issues with the cloud provider. Those two metrics are approximate indicators of failures and latency. Let’s dig into how we accomplished this.

Traffic 257

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 257

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

This first post looks at the general architecture of proxy browsers with a performance focus. Typical Browser Architecture. That’s a very simplified list and some of them can happen in parallel, but it’s a good enough representation for the purpose of highlighting how proxy browser architecture differs. All of that came later.

Architecture 75

Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud.

AWS 162

AWS IoT Virtualization Monitoring 162

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. However, Redis, with its single-threaded architecture, may encounter bottlenecks with large numbers of concurrent connections.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. More processing resources.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 208