Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. This setup prioritizes data safety, with most replicas online at any given time.

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Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With the rise of microservices architecture , there has been a rapid acceleration in the modernization of legacy platforms, leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly scalable, low-latency, and more responsive services. Why Use Spring WebFlux?

Performance 287

Performance Latency Architecture Programming 287

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers?

Traffic 168

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 168

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.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

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.

Benchmarking 308

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

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.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

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.

Latency 256

Latency Storage Cache Servers 256

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.

Latency 235

Latency Storage Traffic Infrastructure 235

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.

Cache 277

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 277

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.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

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.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Latency 114

Latency Performance Tuning Scalability 114

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.

Cache 228

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 228

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.

DevOps 268

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 268

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.

Serverless 232

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 232

InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. By Rafal Gancarz

Latency 101

Latency Scalability Database Performance 101

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.

Monitoring 245

Monitoring Mobile Latency Best Practices 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Lambda’s toolbox of automated processes helps developers streamline to build fast, robust, and scalable applications on accelerated timelines. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. As The New Stack reports, developers spend only 32% of their time at work actually coding. It helps SRE teams automate responses.

Lambda 258

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

When an observability solution also analyzes user experience data using synthetic and real-user monitoring, you can discover problems before your users do and design better user experiences based on real, immediate feedback. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Benefits of observability.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

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.

Engineering 144

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 144

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.

Processing 233

Processing Media Latency Innovation 233

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Read/Write latency. Read/Write scalability. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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.

Strategy 288

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 288

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Increased latency during peak loads. Introduce scalable microservices architectures to distribute computational loads efficiently.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

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.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. Figure 1 shows how we use Bulldozer to move data at Netflix. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 248

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 236

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 236

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

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

Storage 191

Storage Design Scalability Latency 191

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.

Media 240

Media Traffic Processing Design 240

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. Purpose-built databases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

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.

Systems 231

Systems Media Cache Open Source 231

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. Transparency to end-users.

Storage 208

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 208

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.

Media 175

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 175

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 200