The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

For example, one set of experiments is focussed on personalizing our artwork assets to quickly select and leverage the “winning” images for a title we recommend to our members. Using the example of evidence personalization?—?images, At Netflix, we are running several such experiments.

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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. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

For example, one set of experiments is focussed on personalizing our artwork assets to quickly select and leverage the “winning” images for a title we recommend to our members. Using the example of evidence personalization?—?images, At Netflix, we are running several such experiments.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

In the first example section I added a couple of paragraphs on “choreography over orchestration”. I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Elasticsearch recommends each shard to be under 65GB (AWS recommends them to be under 50GB), so we could create time based indices where each index holds somewhere between 16–20GB of data, giving some buffer for data growth. For every asset indexing request, we look at the cache to determine the corresponding time bucket index for the asset.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In ‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. What is Terraform?‍Before So, What Exactly is Terraform?

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Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

One example displaying the need for dataset propagation: at any given time Netflix runs a very large number of A/B tests. For example, you could configure a topic to retain 10 versions or 10 days of versions. for example by region, application, or cluster. for example to train machine-learned models.

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Cache Architecture Metrics Java 190

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. What is Terraform?‍Before One of the primary reasons is the shared workflow.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. Airbnb is a great example of a customer building high-performance and scalable applications with Amazon Aurora. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is another example of a purpose-built data store.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. The background ratio won’t kick in until 12.8GB. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Its support for advanced data structures (for example, lists, sets, and sorted sets) also enables a variety of in-memory use cases such as leaderboards, in-memory analytics, messaging, and more.

Games 111

Games Retail Latency Education 111

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Examples of SPAs. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Famous PWA Use Examples. AI-Powered Chatbots in Banking – Examples, Best Use Cases and the Future.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. What does it mean? Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

One way or another, rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Large preview ).

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