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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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 Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Such frameworks support software engineers in building highly scalable and efficient applications that process continuous data streams of massive volume. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Scalability : Message queues can handle multiple requests and messages simultaneously, making it easier to scale an application to meet increasing demands. This scalability is essential for applications that experience fluctuating workloads. This reliability is crucial for maintaining data integrity and consistency across the system.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment." Not so many this week.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. This was a perfectly sufficient design for many years. To name a few: Updating XML files is error-prone and manual in nature.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. The latency table shows that 99th percentile latency for Yugabyte is quite high compared to others (lower is better). Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. Conclusion.

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InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. By Rafal Gancarz

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love you even more.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. Introduction Purpose and Scope Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL solutions are increasingly popular among organizations seeking scalable, high-performance databases.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. In other cases, it is more convenient to share the results via a low-latency API.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

It employs the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) to provide reliable, scalable message passing, crucial for modern applications dealing with large-scale, complex data flows. Additionally, the low coupling between sender and receiver applications allows for greater flexibility and scalability in the system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This feature support required a significant update in the data table design (which includes new tables and updating existing table columns). Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. The workflow is initiated.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

By adopting a cloud- and edge-based AI approach, teams can benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and pay-per-use model of the cloud while also reducing the latency, bandwidth, and cost of sending AI data to cloud-based operations. Use containerization. Continuously monitor AI models’ performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. This is not an easy task, considering the wide variety of supported devices and the sheer volume of actions our members perform.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. VoltDB is a distributed in-memory database that is designed to power real-time intelligent decisions on fast moving streaming data. The post Scalable MicroService Architecture appeared first on VoltDB. Real-time inventory management.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. VoltDB is a distributed in-memory database that is designed to power real-time intelligent decisions on fast moving streaming data. The post Scalable MicroService Architecture appeared first on VoltDB. Real-time inventory management.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, only highly scalable real user monitoring solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools have to sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code. How real user monitoring works.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. All completely avoidable. to just 3.6s.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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VoltDB

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This adaptability supports continuous improvement and scalability, enabling organizations to keep pace with the evolution of technology and future-proof their data strategies. Increased scalability By supporting the addition of advanced analytics, IIoT devices, and other technologies, UNS makes it easier for organizations to scale operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. The incremental processing solution (IPS) described here has been designed to address the above problems. There are three common issues that the dataset owners usually face.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service.

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