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

AUGUST 27, 2024

Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs. They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Brief summary This test highlights that HAProxy and ProxySQL can reach a level of connection higher than the slowest runner in the game (MySQL Router). MySQL Router was never in the game.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Or, maybe, they can succeed as in getting comfy job at IBM, but their designs don't translate into useful products. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming.

Database 166

Database AWS Games Latency 166

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

Games 113

Games Scalability AWS Database 113

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. To manage A/B test lifecycle, we decided to build a node.js

Metrics 206

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 206

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. In this way, intelligent automation is a game-changer in the cloud computing landscape. This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year.

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic. With peak demand of 1.5

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. That said, 5.5

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Google and others have rightly pointed out that search drives traffic to sites, which the sites can then monetize as they will, by their own advertising (or advertising in partnership with Google), by subscription, or just by the recognition the creators receive when people find their work. Once that was done, everything else would follow.”

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

Testlodge

APRIL 8, 2020

Browser testing checks the functionality, design, accessibility, and responsiveness of an application. Cross browser testing is usually conducted by the QA team and/or designers. Since the design team is intimately familiar with every pixel, it can be beneficial to have them involved. Acceptance Testing. Conclusion.

Testing 98

Testing Games Website Software 98

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Do not get involved in the blame game ; it won’t help anyone. At any time, only one of the environments is live and serves the production traffic. Let’s say blue is serving the traffic currently. Upon completing testing, you can switch all incoming traffic to green. While Blue is live, green is idle, and vice versa.

Education 105

Education Traffic Strategy Testing 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. The Best Kind Of Correct #.

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. To make a general theory practical, leaders in the community will need to translate and connect principles to outcomes. This Is for Everyone #.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID. It could just as well be some sort of game-based UI with thousands of interactions.

Traffic 114

Traffic Metrics Google Website 114

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. Meh, untrue.

Google 110

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 110

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.Â

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Slow A53 cores — a design first introduced nearly a decade ago — continue to dominate the landscape, differing only slightly in frequency scaling (through improved process nodes) and GPU pairing.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Gaming‍With millions of players worldwide often playing simultaneously, online gaming companies cannot afford significant downtime without risking player satisfaction and potential revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” Similar to the dawn of Hadoop, we were back to problems that existing tools could not solve.

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. Copious tooltips and intuitive design make for a shallow learning curve.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. You can stop such practices now and focus on your specific domain to get more traffic and leads. of all clicks.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40