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.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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). Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Expert Tip.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. It is important to highlight that the expected >20% reduction in average session bitrate for these encodes corresponds to a significant reduction in the overall Netflix traffic as well.

Innovation 242

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 242

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.

Systems 235

Systems Media Cache Open Source 235

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.

Strategy 264

Strategy Cache Storage Analytics 264

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more.

Metrics 245

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 245

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.

Cache 191

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 191

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 ).

Cache 139

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

Cache 139

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 139

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

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.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

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.

Database 206

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

Open Source 188

Open Source Network Transportation Cache 188

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. Their goal has been to ensure that their IT infrastructure sits as closely to their customers and users as possible.

AWS 126

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.

Cloud 111

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 111

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Checking Top Sites.

Google 136

Google Performance Website Mobile 136

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 40

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 131

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 131

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.

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). In fact, it’s more like the 85 ⁄ 15 rule threatening to be the 90 ⁄ 10 rule for the top 1,000 URLs where they likely have more resources to throw at high quality CDN’s and backend infrastructure. First up, the mobile results. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

Performance 111

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

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.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. These countries generally have a combination of poor technical infrastructure and low adoption, meaning data is both costly to deliver and doesn’t have the economy of scale to drive costs down.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed. Furthermore, opcode caching allows developers to speed up PHP code execution. appeared first on World Web Technology.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By integrating distributed storage solutions into their infrastructure, organizations can effectively manage increased data storage demands while maintaining optimal performance levels – a characteristic intrinsic to these systems’ design, enabling effortless scaling for handling greater quantities of stored content.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. Unsurprisingly, the more network traffic and hence the more you’re using the radio, the more power 5G consumes. Application performance. This is because most of the time goes into rendering, i.e., is compute-bound.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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. In Conclusion.

Media 77

Media Cache Storage AWS 77

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs 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.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work. However it’s very difficult to decide what the right SLA is, or to tell how close you are to exceeding it.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98