The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS knows how to assemble and decrypt the parts. Disk Caching? — ?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Why cloud-native applications make APM challenging. What does APM stand for?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Cluster GPU programming in the Cloud with the Amazon Web Services changes of all of that. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. The folks on the Cloud Data Engineering (CDE) team, the ones building the paved path for internal data at Netflix, graciously helped us scale it up and make adjustments, but it ended up being an involved process as we kept growing.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Topics include Introduction to AWS, Big Data, Compute & Networking, Architecture, Mobile & Gaming, Databases, Operations, Security, and more. Limited to twenty participants, these full-day bootcamps include hands-on lab exercises using a live environment with the AWS console. AWS Technical Bootcamps.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? Especially when you consider how Certain Big Cloud Providers treat autoML as an on-ramp to model hosting. That’s sort of true. Building a Better for() loop for ML. Damn convenient.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 27, 2015

The goal of opening the loft was to give developers an opportunity to get in-person support and education on AWS, to network, get some work done, or just hang out with peers. Following the talk, we’ll kick off a unique networking social including specialty cocktails, beer, wine, food, and party swag!

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

See also: ‘ Simple testing can prevent most production failures ‘ and ‘[What bugs cause cloud production incidents?][]’ 48% of partial failures result in some part of the system being unable to make progress (‘stuck’). A further 17% exhibit slow downs big enough to be a serious problem (‘slow’).

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. 4.22 %usr 38.40 0.42 %sys 9.52

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With Advent of Cyber , you can get started with Cyber Security by learning the basics and completing a new, beginner friendly security exercise every day. Don't store sensitive data in the cloud; keep it entirely disconnected from the web.” Advent of Cyber. Security can be a daunting field. IT Security Advent Calendar.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. Mostly we are using a virtual desktop to stay connected to the organization’s network. Any technical glitch such as a network bandwidth issue can impact the output of the whole organization. Signup now.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

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