The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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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. Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Risk: Slowdowns and Outages. to just 3.6s.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. 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. But what else is TTFB?

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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. These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service. Also, since this logic resides on the server side, we can iterate on any required changes faster.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. 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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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. High Level Design.

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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

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. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures.

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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. million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process. Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. To act on the change, we need a GraphQL server that supports introspection.

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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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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon RDS , with support for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases, is for customers with apps where relational database features and support for a specific brand of database are critical. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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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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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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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s

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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. How Large is Your Database, Really?

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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. The first set of features that CloudFront is launching today include: Multiple Origin Servers: the ability to specify multiple origin servers, including a default origin, for a CloudFront download distribution.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Active Memory Caching.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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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. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

device characteristics come from our on-field knowledge and runtime memory data comes from real-time user data pushed to our servers. Some features (as an example) include Device Type ID, SDK Version, Buffer Sizes, Cache Capacities, UI resolution, Chipset Manufacturer and Brand. This is because since the kill happens rarely (0.9%

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Deploying your application and database on the same VPC also provides the lowest possible latency path. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups allow you to lock down access to your servers through advanced virtual firewalls. Security Groups.

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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. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Consistency-latency tradeoff.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. For more POPs planned, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations. Hola Mexico!

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%! Performance report Brisbane - Australia Brisbane is our 4th POP in Australia.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

The most obvious and common way this happens is when companies try to evolve their caches into a data platform that can, for example, be used as highly available enterprise key-value stores for volatile data. Let’s look at a typical scenario involving the javax cache API, also known as JSR107. How hard can it be?

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

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