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. 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.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks. At werner.ly

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day. Using the AWS Cloud, Supercell is able to reduce the risk and cost of failure in developing new games.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

KeyValue is an abstraction over the storage engine itself, which allows us to choose the best storage engine that meets our SLO needs. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

To take advantage of the game-changing opportunities, businesses are looking to blend into the digital world. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example. We look forward to broadening this portfolio to include more services over the next several quarters.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. Why would we want to live migrate web workers? An example for the cubes application is shown below.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

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. This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. 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.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. 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.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 98

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 135

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Platforms played these user-and-developer hostile games in mobile's early days to dig a moat of OS-exclusive apps.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. Networking. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. File System. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. Networking. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. File System. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

interactive AR/VR, gaming and critical decision making). One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously. Last but not least, the ability to auto-generate optimal neural networks (e.g.

Wireless 55

Wireless IoT Architecture Analytics 55

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. Therefore, we can conclude that it is reasonable to raise your store’s game by optimizing it for m-commerce. These may, for instance, include the game and social media app sectors.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 court arguments in the case of EPIC Games vs. Apple (slide image). For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD). webviews can plumb arbitrary native capabilities into web content they host, providing isolated-storage with expanded powers. It's unclear how this helps Apple's users. ??.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Considering this requirement and the website load, enterprises generally set up multiple servers and machines that can talk to each other through a network. If someone is more comfortable with an app or gaming console, we can adhere to their needs. If we look at the large umbrella, this results in more connectivity with the user.

Testing 52

Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The data loss will be catastrophic for many, as will the removal of foundational features like reliable data storage, app-like UI, settings integration, Push Notifications, and unread counts. A social network without notifications? The immediate impact of iOS 17.4 Homescreen web apps will be demoted to tabs in the default browser.

Storage 114

Storage Engineering Games Design 114

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111