The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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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. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

According to the Dynatrace “2022 Global CIO Report,” 79% of large organizations use multicloud infrastructure. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Netflix production teams work with a global roster of VFX studios (both large and small) and their artists to create this amazing imagery.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. The KV data can be visualized at a high level, as shown in the diagram below, where three records are shown.

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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. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables). You can also analyze table metrics, such as cache hits and misses.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications. What is Lambda?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. Instead, we created a service to take the most popular configurations and cache them. Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data. Infrastructure Optimization.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Why use a serverless architecture? Serverless architecture offers several benefits for enterprises. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity. Data Store.

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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. The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

To avoid the ES query for the list of indices for every indexing request, we keep the list of indices in a distributed cache. We refresh this cache whenever a new index is created for the next time bucket, so that new assets will be indexed appropriately.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. System Components. Optimization.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

The SSO service disruption occurred due to a new implementation of one of the Account Management screens’ inefficient use of the SSO API, which caused an excessive load to the underlying SSO infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

At inference time, when multi-step decoding is needed, we can deploy KV caching to efficiently reuse past computations and maintain lowlatency. This ensures the model is exposed to different segments of the users history over multiple epochs, allowing it to learn from the entire sequence without requiring an impractically large contextwindow.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a rather simple move as it doesn’t directly impact your infrastructure, just your contract with your electricity provider. Implement appropriate caching layers (for example, read-only cache for static data). The complication with this approach is that your energy bill will likely increase.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

With the release of Dynatrace 1.194, we’ve added CPU related infrastructure metrics for LPARs (host metrics) and regions (process metrics) and expanded our multidimensional analysis to IBM Z systems, including CICS, IMS, and the CICS transaction gateway. . zIIP eligible time processed on general CPU. Prerequisites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. Once the system provisions the initial infrastructure, it then scales in response to the user workload.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is particularly important as we build out new functionality that relies on Pushy; a strong, stable infrastructure foundation allows our partners to continue to build on top of Pushy with confidence. For these requests where caching removed KeyValue from the hot path, we were able to greatly speed things up.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A dynamic map of interactions and relationships between applications and the underlying infrastructure also helps to zoom in and out of an issue at different stages of analysis. Download the latest CIO Report to discover where traditional infrastructure monitoring isn’t keeping up — and what you can do about it.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since you now have lots of choices to address your high performance database needs, I decided to write this blog to help you select the most appropriate services for your workload using lessons I have learnt by scaling the infrastructure for Amazon.com.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Examples of observability data include metrics, logs, and traces which provide visibility into the app’s behavior and performance at different levels of the stack, including the application code, infrastructure, and network. This can be achieved by reducing the size of files or images, using caching, and compressing data.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

With Dynatrace’s full-stack monitoring capabilities, organizations can assess how underlying infrastructure resources affect the application’s performance. Figure 2 – Host VM Utilization dashboard to assess for Capacity and Infrastructure Cost Optimization management. Missing caching layers. Operational excellence.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Expert Tip.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Without infrastructure-level support, every team ends up building their own point solution to varying degrees of success. Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. This deletes the underlying data as well (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Continuing to innovate on this family has tremendous advantages across the whole delivery infrastructure: reducing footprint at our Content Delivery Network (CDN), Open Connect (OC) , the load on our partner ISPs’ networks and the bandwidth usage for our members. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

With Dynatrace OneAgent running on your back-end systems, you gain an end-to-end perspective through your infrastructure all the way to your back-end method calls and database statements. This flushes the cache on the Dynatrace Cluster; you should see events in the web UI shortly thereafter. What’s next.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. DDoS or heavy load: In a similar vein to the previous point, increased load with no way of auto-scaling your application will lead to degraded performance where you begin to probe the limits of your infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Combined, these integration points cover the full application stack from infrastructure monitoring to end-user experience. This enriches the data by providing cloud infrastructure metrics, metadata exposed by Azure combined with the data captured by Dynatrace OneAgent. How does Dynatrace fit in?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls. Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). You need both.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Infrastructure Integration. From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. Many headless CMSes cache content retrieved via RESTful or GraphQL APIs. While CDN caching is super useful, there are times when cache corruption or older cached items could create issues.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays. Minimal infrastructure impact: The way your session replay tool compresses, stores, and processes video data can have an impact on system performance. Make sure you know what assets your replay tool is recording and how you can access them.

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