The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. In addition, footprint savings will allow more content to be stored in edge caches, thus contributing to an improved experience for our members. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. It downloads the part(s) that contain the referenced, uploaded bytes and keeps them in an LRU active cache.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

transitioned from a homegrown distributed database management system based on Apache Zookeeper and Apache Kafka to a commercial solution based on the high-speed Redis database, cache, and message broker, Dynatrace multicloud observability helped the company understand database performance deviations. Further, as Tractor Supply Co.

Cloud 243

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 243

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Today, I want to explore MuCache, an innovative framework recently presented by Zhang et. al at USENIX NSDI 2024 that tackles this challenge head-on by providing automatic and coherent caching for microservices call graphs (see here ).

Cache 59

Cache Innovation Architecture Network 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In addition to the OneAgent collecting all these metrics, Dynatrace has an integration with Azure Monitor to capture additional metrics for platform services such as Storage Accounts, Redis Cache, API Management Services, Load Balancers among others. Dynatrace does this by querying Azure monitor APIs to collect platform metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

Moreover, features like Instant Run and the Gradle Build Cache weren’t supported. Out-of-the-box support for Instant Run and the Gradle Build Cache make the auto-instrumentation process barely noticeable. Auto-instrumentation took several minutes. The plugin didn’t support incremental builds. Supportability.

Cache 35

Cache Java Monitoring Tuning 35

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

Historically, CPU evolution has primarily been driven by microarchitecture innovations, since discarding backward compatibility and changing the fundamental structure of an instruction set is commercially unfeasible. However, microarchitecture innovations alone have their limits.

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Efficiency Hardware Architecture Design 54

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This freedom allows teams and individuals to move fast to deliver on innovation and feel responsible for quality and robustness of their delivery. the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more).

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Radix Sort is carefully designed to make effective use of the L2 cache and sequential memory accesses, whereas Learned Sort is making random accesses all over the destination array. How can learned sort be adapted to make it cache-efficient? If it’s high performance you’re after, you can’t ignore mechanical sympathy.

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Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 I love seeing real innovation in the OS/VMM space, and a willingness to toss away legacy in order to vastly simplify the problem space.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 28

High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. We love what we do and care about doing good in the world.

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Healthcare Best Practices DevOps Cache 122

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Once a range of data becomes immutable, we can safely do things like caching, compressing, and compacting it for reads. Caching: Take advantage of immutability of data and cache it intelligently for discrete time ranges. Buffering Writes We frequently leverage this service for handling bursty workloads. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This occurs once data is safely stored within a local cache. ” Usually, competition is a good thing for end-users since it breeds innovation. Ingestion is critical to gathering the data we care most about. There are two principal ways to go about this: Local ingestion.

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Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 246

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. And for leaf routines (which never establish a frame), this is a non-issue.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Amazon ElastiCache customers will see their prices drop by up to 10%, depending on their cache node types. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Similarly, Amazon RDS will cut its On-Demand prices by up to 10% and Reserved Instance prices by up to 42%.

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AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 90

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. Talk to us, try it out, innovate. Here are the top ten tools you can run and present as a generic BPF observability dashboard, along with suggested visualizations: Tool Shows Visualization. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. opensnoop Files opened table.

Latency 144

Latency Cache Energy Systems 144

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Another benefit of moving computations from browsers to servers is that the results of these computations can often be cached and reused between sessions even for unrelated visitors, thus reducing per-session execution time dramatically. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 141

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer. Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

That redirect costs time, and as we dug into, not just first-page-load time, but every single page load, even cached page loads. I noted not long ago that I really love Mass-Driver’s licensing innovation (priced by # of employees), but I equally love MD Primer , so I bought that. Especially as it affects cached page loads too.

Cache 98

Cache Testing Google Innovation 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.

Technology 127

Technology Technology AWS Storage 127

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Cache Merril. Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. Creating A Technology Roadmap To Drive Successful Innovation. 2021-08-16T06:55:00+00:00.

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Technology Technology Development Strategy 144

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. This made whole publishing process really slow and painful and CMS was part of growing pain.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Emerging in the early 2000s, the first such platforms provided distributed caching on clustered servers with straightforward APIs for storing and retrieving in-memory objects.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Emerging in the early 2000s, the first such platforms provided distributed caching on clustered servers with straightforward APIs for storing and retrieving in-memory objects.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. SIGCOMM’20. Application performance.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

These can be mitigated through the implementation of: efficient query optimization caching of database queries utilization of database indexes implementation of session storage employing database read replication and sharding. Join the revolution with ScaleGrid’s DBaaS – where efficiency meets innovation.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

The release with the new features will be called the Innovation series, and MySQL 8.1.0 The statements include ALTER TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, CACHE INDEX, CHECK TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TABLE, DROP INDEX, LOAD INDEX, OPTIMIZE TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, and any open cursors. is the first of these releases.

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Servers Open Source Cache Tuning 98

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As is the case for many high-quality computer systems conferences, the papers presented here involve a significant amount of engineering and experimentation on real hardware to convincingly evaluate innovative concepts end-to-end in a realistic setting. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. Are you excited about the recent developments in this space?

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Without this ability, engineers often have to carefully manage caching systems to ensure they can achieve low-latency and predictable performance as their workloads scale. I am excited to see the years of experience with systems such as Amazon Dynamo result in an innovative database service that can be broadly used by all our customers.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over. Blog aware. Create posts with Markdown files.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Distributed storage technologies use innovative tools such as Hive, Apache Hadoop, and MongoDB, among others, to proficiently deal with processing extensive volumes encountered in multiple-node-based systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130