The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 235

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 235

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

It employs the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) to provide reliable, scalable message passing, crucial for modern applications dealing with large-scale, complex data flows. Additionally, the low coupling between sender and receiver applications allows for greater flexibility and scalability in the system.

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

Infrastructure 181

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 181

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Most AI today uses association-based machine learning models like neural networks that find correlations and make predictions based on them. More generally, causal AI can contribute to explainable and fair AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 202

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 195

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 194

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 194

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 194

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 194

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

Software 164

Software Software Programming Metrics 164

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

Metrics 173

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 173

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

Storage 111

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 121

Storage Cloud AWS Media 121

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 206

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

Virtualization 159

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 159

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Solution We built a system called Lerner that consists of a set of microservices and a python library that allows scalable agent training and inference for test case scheduling. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service. which allows fast deployment times and rapid scalability.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Thus, whenever a master MySQL goes down (whether due to a MySQL crash, OS crash, system reboot, etc.), This ensures that the system continues to be available to the applications. Scenario 3 – Network Partition – Network Connectivity Breaks Down Between Master and Slave Nodes.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

To this end, more and more manufacturers are investing in intelligent manufacturing technology that enables them to create highly adaptive, efficient, and responsive production systems that enhance output and improve product quality while minimizing waste. billion by 2030, an uptick from $310.92

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. System initialisation time.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. If it gets too small, they provision more racks of systems.

Energy 52

Energy AWS Azure Cloud 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 206

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 206

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 141

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 141

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 127

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 127

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

AWS 90

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 90

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors.

Innovation 138

Innovation AWS Education Network 138

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

Servers 123

Servers Social Media AWS Website 123

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. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 239

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 108

AWS Cloud Games Latency 108

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

Cloud 116

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 116

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. In a traditional IT environment, organizations may have had a team of system administrators managing complex systems. Performance. Monitoring. Incident Response. On-call Support.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67