Community Picks·3yNetflix System Design- Backend Architecture
Netflix accounts for about 15% of the world's internet bandwidth traffic. Netflix operates in two clouds Amazon Web Services and Open Connect (Netflix content delivery network) The overall Netflix system consists of three main parts. Zuul as its API gateway is built to allow dynamic routing, traffic monitoring, and security, resilience to The Netty handlers on the front and back of the filters.
Quastor Daily·4yHow Notion Sharded Their Postgres Database
How Notion Sharded Their Postgres Database is a web/mobile app for creating your personal workspace. You can store notes, tasks, wikis, kanban boards and other things in a Notion workspace. Sharding adds an increased maintenance burden, constraints in the application code and much more architectural complexity. The Notion team looked at the hardware constraints they were dealing with.
Community Picks·3yNetflix System Design- How Netflix Onboards New Content
Netflix has a combined library of over 50,000 titles, supporting over 2200 devices. Netflix uses AWS for nearly all its computing and storage needs, including databases, analytics, recommendation engines, video transcoding, and more.
Community Picks·3yRedditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
A Reddit user recently acquired a 2013-era Netflix cache server that had been pulled from service and wiped for disposal. The decommissioned cache server, called an "Open Connect Appliance" (or OCA) is part of Netflix's Open Connect content delivery network.
Game Developer·4yNetflix opens new California studio for game development
Netflix Games first launched in late 2021 and has nearly 40 titles for users to play. The studio will be run by Chacko Sonny, who previously worked at Blizzard Entertainment and served as executive producer on the Overwatch franchise.
InfoQ·4yNetflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Netflix built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. Netflix built the queuing system using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch.
