The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

The industry has always innovated, and over the last decade, it started moving towards cloud-based workflows. However, unlocking cloud innovation and all its benefits on a global scale has proven to be difficult. The need for a centralized, cloud-based solution that transcends these barriers is more pressing than ever.

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High Scalability

MARCH 29, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. 2% : of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million : metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fp s: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000 : bugs per million lines of code; 2.2

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. But there’s no reason that Google and Facebook shouldn’t be accepting deposits, facilitating payments, making loans, managing assets, running quantitative investment funds. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? Google has an ebook on their security approach; Microsoft has some web pages. Data breaches and cyber attacks occur daily.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. DHH : We’re stopping all major product development at Basecamp for the moment, and dedicating all our attention to fixing these single points of failure that the recent cloud outages have revealed. Worse usually is better.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With hands-on experience in AWS DevOps and Google SRE, I’d like to offer my insights on the comparison of these two systems. Both have proven to be effective in delivering scalable and reliable services for cloud providers. However, improper management can result in non-functional teams and organizations.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

The digital future that’s on the horizon is reliant on the power of the cloud and will require the best technology to match. Hyperscalers are often organizations that provide seamless delivery to build a robust and scalable cloud. Some examples include Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. But what does that look like?

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Simform

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Read this blog to understand and analyze the comparison between AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions. Get to know their current version and compare performance, security, pricing, and scalability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.

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High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. Paul Kunert : In dollar terms, Jeff Bezos's cloud services wing grew 41 per cent year on year to $7.6bn, figures from Canalys show. Microsoft was up 75 per cent to $3.4bn and Google grew a whopping 83 per cent to $2.3bn. Makes one think.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) 1: Amazon; No.2:

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Container as a service is a cloud-based service that allows companies to manage and deploy containers at scale. This, in turn, drove the creation of cloud-based services that further automated this function.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New cloud-native technologies make observability more important than ever…. Dynatrace PurePath 4 extends automatic distributed tracing to OpenTelemetry and the latest cloud-native technologies. In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. google's @fchollet, the danger of AI propaganda. It's HighScalability time: Opportunity crossed over the rainbow bridge after 15 years of loyal service. " Our beloved Opportunity remains silent.". Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis? As shown in Figure 11-5, when it launched, Pokémon GO used Google’s regional Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load-balance ingress traffic across a Kubernetes cluster.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

However, a more scalable approach would be to begin with a new foundation and begin a new building. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The infrastructure is typically consumed on public clouds.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Dynatrace news. Focused on delivering business value. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Dynatrace news. Focused on delivering business value. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The scalability of a native graph database. swardley : First up at #AWSreInvent is McKinsey revisiting their 2009 report on Cloud Computing with their talk "We were so wrong, you'd have been a muppet to follow our advice".

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Overseeing cloud spend and IT resource allocation has always been a priority for CIOs. Yet, in 2023, 82% of cloud decision makers reported that managing cloud spend was their top challenge, according to one source. Teams provision and purchase many cloud services that end up underused or completely unused.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. That's how services built on a cloud work. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. The key question we keep getting from our customers is: How can Dynatrace help me reduce risk, move faster and achieve a better business outcome for my cloud migration project?

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InfoQ

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. Dynatrace news. SRE vs DevOps?

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. It would mean a great deal to me. Don't stop here.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

Need cloud? Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. 3D map of a fly's brain ).

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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