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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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While Atlas is architected around compute & storage separation, and we could theoretically just scale the query layer to meet the increased query demand, every query, regardless of its type, has a data component that needs to be pushed down to the storage layer.

Storage 297

Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

Traffic 347

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Data management.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. We store all OperationIDs which are in STARTED state in a distributed cache (EVCache) for fast access during searches. Using memcache allows us to keep latencies for our search low (most of our queries are less than 100ms). This is obviously very expensive.

Media 272

Media Latency Architecture Database 272

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.

AWS 305

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Now that we suspect file I/O it’s necessary to go to Graph Explorer-> Storage-> File I/O.

Latency 79

Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

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).

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

By caching hot datasets, indexes, and ongoing changes, InnoDB can provide faster response times and utilize disk IO in a much more optimal way. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Setting oom_score_adj to -800. References How MySQL 8.0.21

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. But the real robustness of the DNS system comes through the way lookups are handled, which is what caching resolvers do. Caching techniques ensure that the DNS system doesnt get overloaded with queries. At werner.ly Syndication. or rss feed.

Cloud 113

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 113

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. Application performance.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

Here’s how the same test performed when running Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14 on these same servers: Queries: reads Queries: writes Queries: other Queries: total Transactions Latency (95th) MySQL (A) 1584986 1645000 245322 3475308 122277 20137.61 MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 145

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 95

Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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?

Cache 52

Cache Database Storage Availability 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database.

Scalability 102

Scalability Cache Analytics AWS 102

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It’s limited by the laws of physics in terms of end-to-end latency. We saw earlier that there is end-user pressure to replace batch systems with much lower latency online systems. We are observing significant demand from users in terms of avoiding batch telemetry pipelines altogether. Emphasis mine ). Emphasis mine ).

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

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. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Oh, you mean a cache?

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Network 79

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches. Key findings. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. DynamoDB automatically re-distributes your data to healthy servers to ensure there are always multiple replicas of your data without you needing to intervene.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Coordinators that don’t want to pay contractors?

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55