The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 239

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. To streamline this process, we standardized media assets with pre-processing steps that create and store dedicated quality-controlled derivatives with associated snapshotted metadata. either a movie or an episode within a show). mp4, clip1.mp4,

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 292

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

ScaleGrid offers solutions that address these difficulties by simplifying administration processes in multi-cloud environments and enabling smooth integration among various cloud platforms. What is the primary benefit of multi-cloud solutions in comparison to hybrid cloud solutions? </p>

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Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission.

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. SAP GUI delivered via Citrix – a process on Citrix VDA. Image callout numbers. Citrix VDA. SAP server.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Back up anywhere – to the cloud (use any S3-compatible storage) or on-premise with a locally-mounted remote file system It allows you to choose which compression algorithms to use.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. This object-oriented approach allows distributed caches to be viewed as more of an extension of an application’s in-memory data storage than as a separate storage tier.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. This object-oriented approach allows distributed caches to be viewed as more of an extension of an application’s in-memory data storage than as a separate storage tier.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation. The eagle-eyed reader will have noticed another feature of this work in that quotation: the aim is to create a global address space that spans nodes and processes.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. The major architectural decision was to use in-memory data grid (IMDG) to shield the master RDBMS from workload during request processing. Storage nodes are basically Coherence storage nodes.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. Networking Pump Threads. SQLPAL uses a dynamic set of networking, I/O pump threads to handle network requests. SQLPAL uses a dynamic set of async, I/O pump threads to handle non-network I/O requests.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. SAP GUI delivered via Citrix – a process on Citrix VDA. Image callout numbers. Citrix VDA. SAP server.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Where Chrome Has Lagged. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. When users remain in a browser across sites, there's no heavy process switch between pages. Heaven forfend! ??.

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Google Mobile Engineering Games 129

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. The networking model is asynchronous (allowing out of order, dropped, delayed, and duplicated messages), the failure model is crash-stop.

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud. And about 10% work in technical management positions. That results in roughly 25% share for managers and executives.

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Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 141

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN).

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

of PostgreSQL users are currently in the process of migrating to the RDBMS, according to the 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report , an astounding percentage considering this is the 4th most popular database in the world. Comparison Overview. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. PostgreSQL. Scalability.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Establish a performance culture.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104