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Fetched June 8th, 2026
Netflix ↗

Dynamic Repartitioning for Time Series Workloads

Netflix needed to efficiently partition and scale time series data across Cassandra clusters to handle petabytes of temporal event data while maintaining millisecond latency query performance.

distributed-systems storage-systems
5 min
Fetched June 1st, 2026
Netflix ↗

From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map

Netflix needed a real-time, dynamic way for engineers to understand service dependencies and troubleshoot issues quickly across their complex distributed microservices infrastructure.

microservices observability
5 min