The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Recent improvements in OneAgent runtime-data handling. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. Customizable location of large runtime files. See details below.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. Read the complete test methodology.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path. Latency is defined as…. how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the fast-paced digital world, where every millisecond counts, understanding the nuances of network latency becomes paramount for developers and system architects. Latency, the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer, can significantly impact user experience and system performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. Data Models. Graph Data Models.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency.

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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. Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Here are some ways observability data is important to mobile app performance monitoring.

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Edge computing has transformed how businesses and industries process and manage data. By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Data interception during transit. Increased latency during peak loads.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Connecting to a server on the web typically takes three round trips on the network: DNS: Looking up the server IP address. What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. TLS: Creating a secure encrypted connection.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running. Titus Gateway handles user requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

We all know that data is being generated at an unprecedented rate. You may also know that this has led to an increase in the demand for efficient and secure data storage solutions that won’t break the bank. This article will explore what edge data platforms and real-time services are, why they are important, and how they can be used.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol. For example, the artwork service is separate from the video metadata service, but we need the data from both in the detail key.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. Why is IT operations important?

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VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Advances in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and edge computing have rapidly reshaped the manufacturing landscape, creating more efficient, data-driven, and interconnected factories. This convergence promises not only to streamline operations but also to unlock new levels of automation, data insight, and responsiveness.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Due to the massive amount of data, no one knew what action to take if a number went red. In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency. This represents the total number of requests across the network.

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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. Data Placement. Data Placement. Data Consistency. Read/Write latency.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Customers can use response streaming to achieve the following: Improve Time to First Byte (TTFB) performance for latency-sensitive applications. Return larger payload sizes. How does Dynatrace help?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing has emerged as a critical paradigm to process data closer to the source—IoT devices. This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Amazon RDS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With request tracing and additional data from logs, events, metadata, and analysis, Edgar is able to show the flow of a request through our distributed system?—?what But, there are a few substantial differences in how Edgar approaches its data and its users. starting and finishing a method).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. Disk metrics Monitor the performance of disks to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval. (Select Hub from the dock in the Dynatrace web UI.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data). to the broader community.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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