The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” This program is just one example of the many ways Netflix strives to entertain the world.

Cloud 291

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 291

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 201

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Golang is a statically, strongly typed, compiled, concurrent, and garbage-collecting programming language developed by Google. Its concurrency mechanism makes it easy to write programs that maximize the use of multicore and network machines, and its innovative type system enables flexible and modular program construction.

IoT 130

IoT Hardware Programming Internet 130

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. This means that users only pay for the computing resources they actually use, rather than having to invest in expensive hardware and software upfront. Are you hosted on the cloud?

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

peterseibel : In programming we don't have a special term for it, just like fish don't have a special term for 'water'. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews).

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? These alerts tend to slow down development.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel.Â

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. Programs will usually start with capabilities, perform any activities that require those capabilities, and then “drop” them when the process no longer needs them.

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape. But with all the improvements in our equipment they still do need the rare update.

Database 97

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 97

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. For simplicity, we do not include networking or transaction management middleware in this discussion because although important in the real world they do not affect the key concepts. Database benchmarking in parallel. CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[slev].

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

Cloud 102

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 102

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

It occurs when the arithmetic calculation results in a value that is way too large for the software program to handle. The impossible values should be identified and removed from the program, otherwise, they will result in error conditions. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. Not all errors are preventable via defensive programming. Callum Hart.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. SG4 (Networking) continued working on updating the networking proposal for std::execution senders and receivers. This is that library.

C++ 130

C++ Lambda Network Programming 130

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges optimising whole programs.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

Efficiency 109

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 109

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Swift is a modern and latest programming language for writing code for macOS, iOS, watchOS, etc. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. Scenario: .

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you want a lightweight, fast-starting, easy to program for, embeddable application runtime that also offers isolation, then a natural choice is V8 isolates. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. High performance.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

Open Source 110

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Evaluating the total commands processed per second entails tracking server workload by observing its request-handling capabilities via different techniques such as immediate metric measurements, continuous real-time data flow using MONITOR command, or testing simulated workloads with the Redis benchmark program.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Unlike SQL queries which are declarative, such models are expressed as imperative programs heavily dependent on libraries. Maybe in time there will be a more declarative way of specifying the model rather than trying to recover it from an imperative program. ###Cross-optimisation. categorical encoding). " Query execution.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? MPI is a commonly used standard to implement message-passing programs on computer clusters. The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. These tools identify dangerous files and programs in the system and check for any loopholes.

Testing 67

Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67