The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. It’s very common for a website to have an increase in traffic after a marketing campaign. Wi-Fi usage.

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