The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. Figure 1 shows how we use Bulldozer to move data at Netflix. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

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InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. By Rafal Gancarz

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At ScaleGrid, we’re always pushing the boundaries to offer more flexibility and scalability to our customers. Additionally, we’ve added the Philadelphia AWS Local Zone , helping to reduce latency for customers operating in the eastern U.S. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months to come! <p>The </p>

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Whether tracking internal, workload-centric indicators such as errors, duration, or saturation or focusing on the golden signals and other user-centric views such as availability, latency, traffic, or engagement, SLOs-as-code enables coherent and consistent monitoring throughout the environment at scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Stay tuned for more details on this, as well as more details on the internals of the new SKU Platform in one of our upcoming blog posts. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. The next step is to invest further into self-service and support rule changes via a SKU UI.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. You can also create custom charts. Requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Additionally, instead of implementing business logic by composing multiple individual Processors together, users could express their logic in a single SQL query, avoiding the additional resource and latency overhead that came from multiple Flink jobs and Kafka topics. This makes the query service lightweight, scalable, and execution agnostic.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. You can also create custom charts. Requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed. AutoAnalyze In short, AutoAnalyze finds the best tuning/configuration parameters for a table. More processing resources.

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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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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. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. VQS is called using the measureQuality endpoint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. By the following morning, alerts were received regarding high memory consumption and GC latencies, to the point where the service was unresponsive to HTTP requests.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. Introduction Purpose and Scope Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL solutions are increasingly popular among organizations seeking scalable, high-performance databases. </p>

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The other sections on that page (such as Disk analysis) provide further information and charts on topics such as available disk space, latency, dropped network packets, refused connections, and more. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. It enables them to adapt to user feedback swiftly, fine-tune feature releases, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while maintaining control and minimizing disruption.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Sharded time-series collections for improved scalability and performance. Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? x: Live resharding of databases for uninterrupted sharded key changes.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable. I hope this helps!

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

The software also extends capabilities allowing fine-tuning consumption parameters through QoS (Quality of Service) prefetch limits catered toward balancing load among numerous consumers, thus preventing overwhelming any single consumer entity. This scalability is essential for applications that experience fluctuating workloads.

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InfoQ

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company evolved the guild component, which is responsible for fanning out billions of message notifications, in a series of performance and scalability improvements supported by system observability and performance tuning. By Rafal Gancarz

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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. Maestro is highly scalable and extensible to support existing and new use cases and offers enhanced usability to end users. This has led to a few internal solutions such as Psyberg.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

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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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

After this, there is often a long process of training that includes tuning the knobs and levers, called hyperparameters, that control the different aspects of the training algorithm. Finally, figuring out how to move the model into a scalable production environment can often be slow and inefficient for those that do not do it routinely.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

The Amazon ML console and API provide data and model visualization tools, as well as wizards to guide you through the process of creating machine learning models, measuring their quality and fine-tuning the predictions to match your application requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations.

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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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