The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It also means fewer engineering teams are required to support initiatives in this space. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. Configuration instead of code for updating SKU data, which improves innovation velocity. The world is constantly changing.

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Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software operations methodology that enables organizations to create highly reliable and scalable applications. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

DevOps 246

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 246

DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has grown immensely popular with many of the world’s largest tech companies, like Netflix, LinkedIn and Airbnb employing SRE teams to keep their systems reliable and scalable.

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Engineering Scalability Systems Traffic 245

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We use Keystone as it is easy to use, reliable, scalable, and provides aggregation of facts from different cloud regions into a single AWS region. We plan to split these Keystone streams into multiple streams for horizontal scalability. We needed scalability testing and performance testing as well.

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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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Traffic Java Latency Google 166

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, in various use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

System Metrics Given the significant reduction in connections, we saw reduced CPU utilization (~4%), heap usage (~15%), and latency (~3%) on Zuul, as well. In this case, we went from a subset size of 100 for 400 servers (a division of 4) to 50 (a division of 8).

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 178

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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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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