Best of Netflix — August 2022

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   Quastor Daily·4y

   How Netflix Implements Load Shedding

   API Gateway sits between the backend and the client and it handles things like rate limiting, authentication, monitoring and routing requests. The first decision was where to implement the load shedding algorithm. Zuul will throttle requests below a certain priority threshold. This is meant to protect the API gateway itself. The metrics used to trigger global throttling are concurrent.

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   ByteByteGo·4y

   EP20: How SQL works under the hood. Also...

   How does Netflix scale push messaging for millions of devices? Amazon DynamoDB powered 89 million requests per second during prime days. Netflix’s homegrown solution called ‘Zuul Push’ is used. For Android, FCM is used to send push notifications for Apple devices.

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   Community Picks·4y

   How to find the Largest Contentful Paint element? A complete guide.

   Google introduced the Largest Contentful Paint metric (LCP) as part of their Core Web Vitals. LCP is the time it takes to load the so-called LCP element, the largest element in pixels.

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