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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

Use Cases and Requirements At Netflix, our counting use cases include tracking millions of user interactions, monitoring how often specific features or experiences are shown to users, and counting multiple facets of data during A/B test experiments , among others. We hope you found this blog post insightful.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results.

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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. His version can be used for the plan cache – the only challenge there is the information is transient, so you may not capture every query that uses a particular index.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

Scalegrid

Once authentication succeeds, it checks if it already has a cached connection for this database+user combination. Once the client disconnects, Pgpool-II has to decide whether to cache the connection: If it has an empty slot, it caches it. Stay tuned! If it does, it returns the connection to the client.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

In this example configuration, the ngsegment namespace is backed by both a Cassandra cluster and an EVCache caching layer, allowing for highly durable persistent storage and lower-latency point reads. "persistence_configuration":[ Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

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? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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