The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Cassandra), ensuring fast and efficient access.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient. Together, they provide continuous value to the business.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

In addition, pySpark applications can be tuned to optimize performance and achieve better execution time, scalability, and resource utilization. In this article, we will discuss some tips and techniques for tuning PySpark applications. This can significantly reduce network overhead and improve performance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. The “scheduler” determines the placement of new containers so compute resources are used most efficiently. Networking. Watch webinar now!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We expect these bitrates to evolve over time as we get more efficient with our encoding techniques. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. Explainable AI tools and practices are important for understanding and weeding out biases like this to improve output accuracy and operational efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. We looked at a hosts network devices, the flows between them and then at the process level details. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Network Interface. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates. Azure Data Factory v1. Azure Data Factory v2.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Like most IT professionals, Harikrishnan and the Parker team’s cybersecurity engineer Tom Hood have multiple requirements to manage, from implementing digital transformation and ensuring operational efficiency to securing IT systems. What device are they using over what type of network? Efficiency. Accessibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. This metric gauges the stability and efficiency of your DevOps processes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To train these parameters as well as fine-tune the pretrained image-text model weights, we leverage in-house datasets that pair shots of varying durations with rich textual descriptions of their content. The embedding computation is based on a large neural network model and has to be run on GPUs for optimal throughput.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. 0.3, -0.5, -0.7, and “problem authenticating” might be [0.1, 0.35, -0.5, -0.7,

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. 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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Please stay tuned!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins. It was very efficient, but it had a set job size, requiring manual intervention if we wanted to horizontally scale it, and it required manual intervention when rolling out a new version.

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DZone

DECEMBER 19, 2020

A practical solution is Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), a highly flexible, efficient virtual machine that runs in the Linux kernel. BPF is mainly used for networking, tracing, and security. Of all the kinds of failures, kernel failures may be the most difficult to analyze and simulate.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. For now, I’m usually sat with a coffee, some tunes on, and an old-school pen and paper making notes. against many other metrics as other milestones (except CLS) are network-bound and TBT is CPU-bound.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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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. However, to ensure a level playing field regarding connection handling, we tuned ScaleGrid’s instances to allow 830 connections. </p>

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Also, in place of expensive retraining or fine-tuning for an LLM, this approach allows for quick data updates at low cost. This latter approach with node embeddings can be more robust and potentially more efficient. One more embellishment is to use a graph neural network (GNN) trained on the documents.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Networking. We help where we can. File System. Storage I/O.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Networking. We help where we can. File System. Storage I/O.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. depending on the use case.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Learn how RabbitMQ can boost your system’s efficiency and reliability in these practical scenarios. Understanding RabbitMQ as a Message Broker RabbitMQ is a powerful message broker that enables applications to communicate by efficiently directing messages from producers to their intended consumers.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Another configuration we can use to increase the efficiency of parallel execution on the slaves is to tune binlog_group_commit_sync_delay on the master. The theorem states that, in the presence of a network partition, we will have to choose either availability or consistency, but not both. Stay tuned!!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This result s in w eb – service integrations perforat ing firewalls, network content not being captured by intrusion detection and vulnerability scanners miss ing what’s running in production. . One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Importance of Managing and Scaling Distributed SQL Databases Managing and growing distributed SQL databases is important for modern businesses to work efficiently and stay agile. Tools and Techniques for Scaling Distributed SQL Databases Several tools and techniques facilitate the efficient scaling of distributed SQL databases.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Oxygen is in early access preview with select merchants.

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