The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. On the one hand, logic is divided between API, workflow and serverless functions. debian packages).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace can help.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace can help.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., While being motivated by serverless use cases, there’s nothing especially serverless about the key-value store, Shredder , this paper reports on. A key challenge… is that serverless functions are stateless.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On a CPU, we leveraged oneDnn to further reduce latency. Integrating neural networks into our next-generation encoding platform The Encoding Technologies and Media Cloud Engineering teams at Netflix have jointly innovated to bring Cosmos , our next-generation encoding platform, to life. Our filter can run on both CPU and GPU.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

The problem is that they called this refactoring a microservice to monolith transition, when it’s clearly a microservice refactoring step, and is exactly what I recommend people do in my talks about Serverless First. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. You can read more about this in our previous posts here: part 1 , part 2.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. " Hemnet.

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cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Serverless Computing is also known as FaaS (Function as a Service). Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. Serverless systems are still in their infancy. Advantages.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

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. 3) Serverless will rocket. Please support me on Patreon.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless. Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Benefits of a Serverless Model. Disadvantages of a Serverless Model.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. in the cloud). SoCC’19 [^1].

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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). Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution.

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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. Take Expedia, for example.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’ A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Formal foundations of serverless computing Jangda et al., won a distinguished paper award at OOPSLA this year for their work on ‘Formal foundations of serverless computing.’ They show the conditions under which a serverless function can safely ignore these peculiarities, and thus become much simpler to reason about.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon EFS is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale shared file storage in the AWS Cloud. Developers really have flocked to using this serverless programming technology to build event driven services. Synchronous events operate with low latency so you can deliver dynamic, interactive experiences to your users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Such coupling problems abound with our Reloaded architecture, and hence the Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams have been working together to develop a solution that addresses many of the concerns with our previous architecture. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? It is advantageous in the cloud to shut down compute resources when they are not being used, but there is then a query latency cost.

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VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 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. 12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more.

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Simform

JULY 13, 2022

But it also introduces cold starts and latency, decelerating your applications’ performance. The post AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency: Build High-performance Serverless Applications at Scale appeared first on Simform - Product Engineering Company.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Serverless is a highly dynamic area and two years is a lifetime in this world.

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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. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. The client keeps a map of Redis nodes, which is updated in case of failover.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For applications like communication between AVs, latency–how long it takes to get a response–is more likely to be a bigger limitation than raw bandwidth, and is subject to limits imposed by physics. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. Acting as a switchboard for incoming and outgoing messages, Azure IoT Hub forms the core of these capabilities. Azure digital twins serve a different purpose.

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Particular Software

AUGUST 16, 2021

Is Cosmos DB serverless? Is Cosmos DB serverless? People ascribe a couple of different meanings to the word serverless so let’s take a look at both. In that sense, it is serverless. Cosmos DB is available in serverless mode which is ideal for spikes or unpredictable workloads that don’t have sustained traffic.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Although some vendors have added support for APIs and cloud services most have not even bothered to adapt with changing technology landscape.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN220 Build robotic cloud simulations with ROS and AWS RoboMaker Join Camilo Buscaron, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, and Katherine Scott, Developer Advocate, Open Robotics in this workshop to use Gazebo, a 3D simulator, and Robot Operating System (ROS) on AWS RoboMaker and learn how to spin up robotic simulations.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN220 Build robotic cloud simulations with ROS and AWS RoboMaker Join Camilo Buscaron, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, and Katherine Scott, Developer Advocate, Open Robotics in this workshop to use Gazebo, a 3D simulator, and Robot Operating System (ROS) on AWS RoboMaker and learn how to spin up robotic simulations.

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