The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Handling Bursty Traffic : Managing significant traffic spikes during high-demand events, such as new content launches or regional failovers. Sharded Infrastructure : Leveraging the Data Gateway Platform , we can deploy single-tenant and/or multi-tenant infrastructure with the necessary access and traffic isolation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whats unique and innovative about your service?

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2022

When multiplied by the amount of traffic that these offerings attract, it’s nearly impossible for application developers to tie in user experience insights with errors that are discovered in production. This necessitates that millions of microservices and thousands of apps be updated regularly per continuous delivery.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report , 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion suns : weight of the Milky Way; 300 +: backdoored apps on GitHub; 10% : hacked self-driving cars needed to bring traffic to a halt; $3 million : Marriott data breach cost after insurance; Quoteable Quotes: @kelseyhightower : Platform in a box solutions that are attempting to turn Kubernetes into a PaaS are missing the "as a service" part.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. AWS Lambda. Amazon EKS.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. via bug fixes).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Accelerating Innovation. 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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are also enabling some of the Nordics' most successful startups and gaming companies, such as: Bambora, Evolution Gaming, Hemnet, iZettle, KRY, LEO Innovation Lab, Lingit, Lunar Way, Mapillary, Mathem, Mojang, Paradox Interactive, Quinyx, Rovio, Supercell, Tidal, Trustpilot, Tink, and Vivino. Public sector. Telenor Connexion.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms. Join the revolution with ScaleGrid’s DBaaS – where efficiency meets innovation.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services. Hybrid Cloud: Flexibility and Innovation Business operations are being revolutionized by AI-powered hybrid cloud solutions. What are the benefits of hybrid cloud solutions powered by AI?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. The growth of Amazonâ??s

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. What this chart summarizes is that.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. If customers have many tiny files, then storage and bandwidth don’t amount to much even if they are making millions of requests.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Depending on your setup, costs can include: Hardware devices (servers, storage devices, network switches, etc.)

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. SIGCOMM’20. The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection: Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

So, for a few years we were stuck – the only option was to manually create an XEvents trace that writes to a ring buffer or file target with Azure Storage, neither of which are optimal. Even Lighter Weight Alternatives.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The stress and mental fatigue associated with these micro-decisions can be taxing, particularly when you’re trying to navigate through traffic or focus on the road. To address this, innovative solutions must be explored. One approach is to set constraints on the budget for each transaction or over a specific time period.

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Blockchain Automotive Transportation Energy 52

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Free of vendor lock-in Vendor lock-in refers to the loss of freedom to scale, innovate, or switch to alternatives due to dependencies on a specific database vendor. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency. . Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency. . Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Network 56

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. Most of cloud object/blob storage services have native support for static site hosting.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63