The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 24, 2019

Today, I am happy to introduce the new AWS Asia Pacific ( Hong Kong ) Region. AWS customers can now use this Region to serve their end users in Hong Kong SAR at a lower latency, and to comply with any data locality requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.” let’s call it GS2?—?to

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 30, 2019

I'm happy to announce today that the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region is now open! This is our first AWS Region in the Middle East and I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to organizations of all sizes.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. Every time the trigger executes, the function runs on an available resource. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. Pay Per Use.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Spain in late 2022 or early 2023! I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to Spanish organizations of all sizes. Today is another milestone for us in Spain.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. Watch our Chaos Engineering talk from AWS Reinvent to learn more about Sticky Canaries. How does it work?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At Dynatrace we host most of our Dynatrace SaaS clusters for paying customers as well as trial users in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%! Sydney, we have a disk write latency problem!

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. It is accessible only to vetted US entities and AWS account root users, who must confirm that they are US citizens or US permanent residents.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB offers significantly lower latency which allows you to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. percentile latency is up to 11X better than Cassandra on AWS EC2 bare metal. of all ScyllaDB cloud deployments are running on AWS from our survey participants. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP Click To Tweet.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And because they never stop, their need for security, availability, performance, scalability, and flexibility over how they choose to run their workloads never stop. At AWS, we are customer obsessed, so we never stop building either.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. It prevents a runaway container from impacting other applications by isolating applications from each other. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Clouds app provides a view of all available cloud-native services. Logs in context, along with other details, are instantly available after selecting a resource. DevOps teams operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Azure, AWS, GCP, or other cloud environments are provided with an app focused on their daily routines and tasks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In PACELC terms we choose PC/EC and have the same level of availability for writes of our previous system while improving our theoretical availability for reads. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Many of these enterprises are assisted by our extensive partner ecosystem in Korea.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. It provides multi-data center replication, high availability, and offers rock-solid durability.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Enter graph databases.

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VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. Let’s look at the top cloud computing use cases, the use cases for which cloud probably isn’t the best route available, and the use cases where a hybrid approach may be best.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

A cluster is just a pool of compute resources available to a customer’s applications. The agent is written in Go, has a minimal footprint, and is available on GitHub under an Apache license. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

These integrations are implemented through Metaflow’s extension mechanism which is publicly available but subject to change, and hence not a part of Metaflow’s stable API yet. Compute: Titus Whereas open-source users of Metaflow rely on AWS Batch or Kubernetes as the compute backend , we rely on our centralized compute-platform, Titus.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 7, 2017

Unlocking the value of data is a primary goal that AWS helps our customers to pursue. Some applications may also rely on timely decisions: when maneuvering heavy machinery, an absolute minimum of latency is critical. AWS Greengrass provides the following features: Local execution ofAWS Lambda functions written in Python 2.7

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

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