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 system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. We call this system Cosmos.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

A file and folder interface for Netflix Cloud Services Written by Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kishore Kasi , Abhishek Kapatkar , and Tejas Chopra In this post, we are introducing Netflix Drive, a Cloud drive for media assets and providing a high level overview of some of its features and interfaces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2. New feature requests were adding to the maintenance burden for the team.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Simple Queue Service (SQS) is very useful, easy to use, scalable and reliable. Amazon SQS provides highly scalable â??eventual

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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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. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

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Games Retail Latency Education 96

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. How to optimize images for social media for better engagement and CTR. SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) allows vector graphics to be displayed in the browser.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. In an in-depth article on Streaming Media Dan Rayburn analyzed the impact of Amazon Cloudfront move to GA: Amazons CDN Gets More Competitive, Adds SLA, New Edge Locations, Lower Pricing. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An organization’s response to an incident, whether we are talking about downtime, security breaches or cyber-attacks, or even prolonged latency and repeated errors, is critical to the continued success of the business and trust from the customer or end user. SREs must manage complex distributed systems. Incident Logging.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets. Caching improves performance, reduces bandwidth usage, and enhances scalability by reducing the load on the origin server.Faster Loading Times: Static content is pre-generated and does not require server-side processing.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

So this November Shahin and I went to SC22 in Dallas TX together, as analysts, and started out in the media briefing event where the latest Top500 Report was revealed and discussed. Many HPC workloads synchronize work on a barrier, and work much better if there’s a consistently narrow latency distribution without a long tail.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to watch out for complex design elements, large media files, or slow browser rendering can delay the time it takes for the largest contentful element to render. We realized that we needed to consider a more global and scalable solution to better serve our global audience. This determines how long a page remains “fresh.”

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. Hosted repositories also have an upper limit of ~2GB, so you may need to use a 3rd party service for media if you have many assets. Updating a blog post with the visual editor in CloudCannon.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets. Caching improves performance, reduces bandwidth usage, and enhances scalability by reducing the load on the origin server.Faster Loading Times: Static content is pre-generated and does not require server-side processing.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Developers often focus on improving scripting performance, but they need to realize that the bulk of their performance woes come from media content… - Una Kravets Image optimization.

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VoltDB

JUNE 21, 2024

Because our perceptions of what AI would be were heavily shaped by the media before any real AI existed. So if you’re in this boat with your applications, be sure to: Understand the needs of your audience as far as latency. Why mention this in a tech blog about AI in 2024?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Backend processing may take time from seconds to minutes.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. " [ an intro to "isomorphic javascript", a.k.a. "Server-Side "Server-Side Rendering", a.k.a. "SSR"

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. However, some caveats regarding performance, scalability, and potential data conflicts exist. But isn’t waiting for the data the point? Well, yes, but you can load it faster.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. ​​ Under certain conditions, ​​ issuing the same read returns the correct data.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery. Using JAMstack delivers better performance, higher scalability with less cost, and overall a better developer experience as well as user experience.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. From: High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion.

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