The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. In addition, Netflix is always changing: we’re constantly adding new initiatives like live streaming, ads and games, and evolving our architecture. Afterward, Envoy behaves as if the cluster was defined in the config.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. George Dyson : The next revolution will be the rise of analog systems that can no longer be mastered by digital programming. 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. All Things Distributed.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). How digital experience monitoring changes the game. Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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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 Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System. The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. He has said, “By moving a large part of our IT system from our old IBM mainframe to AWS, we have adopted a cloud first strategy, boosting our power of innovation.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. is one of the largest social gaming companies in Japan with well over 10 million users per day.

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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. These steps inform a general description of the interaction loop: The system is ready to receive input. The system is ready to receive input. but for whom ?

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

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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. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow.

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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.

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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.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed five years.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

P1967R14 #embed – a scannable, tooling-friendly binary resource inclusion mechanism by JeanHeyd Meneide enables #include for binary data a portable way to pull binary data into a program without external tools and build system support. This can create variable latency during iteration.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

The Amazon Elastic File System. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system. Today Amazon ECS moves into General Availability (GA) so you can use it for your certified production systems.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. Integration with Amazon CloudWatch gives customers visibility into key performance metrics, further simplifying system management.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. All Things Distributed.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

In the same spirit as Paxos Made Live , this paper describes the details, choices and tradeoffs that are required to put a consensus system into production. This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g. A guiding principle.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. The Baseline Scenario #.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

There may be alarm systems. Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? There have been cases of harassment, intimidation, and domestic abuse by people whose access should have been revoked: for example, an ex-partner turning off the heating system. Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

interactive AR/VR, gaming and critical decision making). Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Emerging AI visual systems are going beyond understanding pixels and towards actually generating them.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

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