The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

By Cyril Concolato Introduction In previous blog posts, our colleagues at Netflix have explained how 4K video streams are optimized , how even legacy video streams are improved and more recently how new audio codecs can provide better aural experiences to our members. Figure 1?—?Simplified

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. 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.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. For a myriad of reasons, older hardware can't always accommodate faster speeds. but couldn't find anything.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

Sometimes 15GB+ updates to video games are in fact necessary and unavoidable 2. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". @pmddomingos : Overheard at Stanford: trying to run a university in Silicon Valley is like trying to run a monastery in Gomorrah.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. The importance of the network.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. HPU1 with TSMC 28nm process was announced in HOTCHIPS’17.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). What is a private 5G network?

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Where iOS Has Lagged.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks). for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces).

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Earth Networks recently launched a new lightning proximity feature for their popular WeatherBug app. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks.

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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. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

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. The app should support the software components like APIs, videos, voice, images, etc. Scenario: .

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

There may be multiple people in the room during a video call, not just the person you are calling. The concept of Zero Trust Networks speaks to this problem. But when a new baby comes home, being able to do video calling with close relatives may become a higher priority. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. In general, the recommended value for innodb_thread_concurrency on a server with 10 CPUs is typically between 16 and 32. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Network latency can be affected due to.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Several respondents also mentioned working with video: analyzing video data streams, video analytics, and generating or editing videos. Now we expect wireless everywhere, and even that’s not correct.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There are no videos of the talks, so I tend to be a bit more experimental and try out new content at GlueCon. One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Where VoltDB fits. Very Well!”

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 6, 2018

The initial details were a bit scant, but Erik Runyon took the time to jot down some information he found in a video from WWDC. Some features are turned off (video, service workers, fonts, etc) and text-heavy pages automatically activate Reader Mode. This enables lower-powered hardware to serve web content without overtaxing itself.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. A classic example is TCP , which delivers reliable communications over notoriously- and deliberately-unreliable IP which can drop and reorder packets as network nodes and communications paths keep madly appearing and reappearing like a herd of crazed Cheshire cats. — The free lunch is over.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. Let’s understand this with the help of an example – there is a video-streaming website that is available for laptops and computers only. software and hardware installation upgrades wear and tear. Maintenance.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Huge reach, plus the licensing of On2's video codecs , made Flash the default video delivery mechanism for many years. a lab's worth of sensors , including: cameras (both still and video).

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Largest Contentful Paint – LCP measures when the largest visual element (image or video) in the viewport finishes rendering. More on that later.) That's huge.

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