DZone
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. It's midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times, currently serving as the "situation room." During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
This approach ensures high availability by isolating regions, so if one becomes degraded, others remain unaffected, allowing traffic to be shifted between regions to maintain service continuity. Thus, all data in one region is processed by the Flink job deployed within thatregion.
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The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2019
While our engineering teams have and continue to build solutions to lighten this cognitive load (better guardrails, improved tooling, …), data and its derived products are critical elements to understanding, optimizing and abstracting our infrastructure. What will be the cost of rolling out the winning cell of an AB test to all users?
The Netflix TechBlog
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.
The Netflix TechBlog
MAY 26, 2020
VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. At Netflix we publish the Flow Log data to Amazon S3. We also adjusted the frequency in which Spark app instances are spun up such that any backlog would burn off during a trough in traffic.
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
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