The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. How does it work?

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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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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 259

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Users might already have the file cached. If website-a.com links to [link] , and a user goes from there to website-b.com who also links to [link] , then the user will already have that file in their cache. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 275

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 271

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Spring Boot 2 uses Micrometer as its default application metrics collector and automatically registers metrics for a wide variety of technologies, like JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization, Rabbit MQ connection factories, and more. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

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Metrics Java Latency Cache 220

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 235

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. With the Dynatrace Data Explorer, you can easily analyze metrics, such as client read/write latency by Cassandra nodes and disk space usage by keyspaces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. Observing AI models Running AI models at scale can be resource-intensive.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 215

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Moreover, common database optimizations like caching recently queried data don’t really work for alerting queries because, generally speaking, the last received datapoint is required for correctness. The fundamental idea behind Telltale is to detect anomalies on SLI metrics (for example, latency, error rates, etc).

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InfoQ

JANUARY 29, 2024

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. By Rafal Gancarz

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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. Deployment: Cache To produce business value, all our Metaflow projects are deployed to work with other production systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

The Tech Hollow , an OSS technology we released a few years ago, has been best described as a total high-density near cache : Total : The entire dataset is cached on each node?—?there there is no eviction policy, and there are no cache misses. Near : the cache exists in RAM on any instance which requires access to the dataset.

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Cache Architecture Engineering Latency 184

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. Marken Architecture Our goal was to help teams at Netflix to create data pipelines without thinking about how that data is available to the readers or the client teams. This is obviously very expensive. Write algo runs into files.

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Media Latency Architecture Database 273

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. Get it right and your application will seamlessly scale from hundreds to tens of millions of users without difficulty, while remaining performant and available.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 101

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

There was no appetite from them to do so, so I decided to make it all available for free anyway—a faster web benefits everyone. To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. Next up, we get sent to fonts.[client].com

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 210

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. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. However, consistency is a very expensive thing in distributed systems, so it can be traded not only to availability. Consistency.

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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). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. High Availability.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Spring Boot 2 uses Micrometer as its default application metrics collector and automatically registers metrics for a wide variety of technologies, like JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization, Rabbit MQ connection factories, and more. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

Metrics 130

Metrics Java Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Spring Boot 2 uses Micrometer as its default application metrics collector and automatically registers metrics for a wide variety of technologies, like JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization, Rabbit MQ connection factories, and more. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

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Metrics Java Latency Cache 130

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. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

More importantly, the low resource availability or “out of memory” scenario is one of the common reasons for crashes/kills. Some features (as an example) include Device Type ID, SDK Version, Buffer Sizes, Cache Capacities, UI resolution, Chipset Manufacturer and Brand. Labeling the data?—?Ground of the time (False Positives).

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Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 188

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. Listening to Kafka events adds little latency, our fan out operations are really quick since we store foreign keys to identify the edges, and looking up data in an inverted index is fast as well. Our data changes constantly?—?

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Database Cache Servers Performance 247

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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Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. I think the reasons are many, but most follow a similar trend.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 98

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

However, it is limited by the available free memory amount, and all data is lost when the server stops. In-Memory Storage Engine, as the name suggests, stores data in memory for faster performance and lower latencies. It uses a filesystem cache and write-ahead log for crash recovery.

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Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. At launch, an item’s change record is available in the stream for 24 hours after it is created.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 159

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Query String based Caching: the ability to include query string parameters as part of the objects cache key. URL based configuration: the ability to configure cache behaviors based on URL path patterns.

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Cache Latency AWS Website 97