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 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance. ‍What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN ‍CDN architecture serves as a blueprint or plan that guides the distribution of CDN provider PoPs.

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Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. There is no best garbage collector.

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Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 234

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 With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded.

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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 helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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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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Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 17, 2018

To accomplish this, Uber relies heavily on making data-driven decisions at every level, from forecasting rider demand during high traffic events to identifying and addressing bottlenecks … The post Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As more organizations embrace microservices-based architecture to deliver goods and services digitally, maintaining customer satisfaction has become exponentially more challenging. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. Not all attempts succeed on the first try.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Wondering where RabbitMQ fits into your architecture? They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. Microservices Communication In the context of a microservices architecture that demands scalability and loose coupling among services, RabbitMQ serves as a critical component.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Written by Colby Callahan , Megha Manohara , and Mike Azar. Things got hairy.

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. For example, an e-commerce company can use real-time data on website traffic and customer behaviors to adjust pricing or launch targeted promotions during peak shopping periods. In a world where 2.5

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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.

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

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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. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time. million elements.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. Proper notifications or escalations are automated based on ownership information.

Best Practices 203

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

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InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience.

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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. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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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. energy consumption).

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. It acts as a producer that delivers these messages to the message broker, storing and waiting for consumers to retrieve and process them.

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IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., via bug fixes).

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 175

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. Regional traffic evacuations. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

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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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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.

Architecture 68

Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is particularly beneficial during high-traffic periods or when serving content to a large audience.All of these benefits apply to modern applications that process user thumbnails. This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Front Door enables you to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB. Azure DB for MySQL. Azure DB for PostgreSQL. Azure SQL Managed Instance. Azure HDInsight.

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