The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. Wednesday?—?December Thursday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. This allowed us to increase total storage capacity without adding a new Cassandra node to the existing cluster.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. Mobile accounts for two-thirds of web traffic (or thereabouts ), making outsized iOS adoption among wealthy users particularly salient to publishers and advertisers.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

High Scalability

APRIL 26, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. It's HighScalability time: Found! The One Ring. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 45 mostly 5 star reviews (103 on Goodreads). billion : FTC Facebook fine; 1.56

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Azure 28

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. 1305:12 @(shell):1:1 2019-04-18T19:44:42.261+0530 I NETWORK [thread1] trying reconnect to SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017 failed 2019-04-18T19:44:43.267+0530 I NETWORK [thread1] reconnect SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017

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Testing Network Database Servers 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Device cloud testing is the best way to scale up the number of devices & operating systems on which tests are performed.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). km university campus.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Cloud effectively solves each of these major issues.

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Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. Worldwide mobile app revenue in 2019 stood at 462 bn USD. The test lab can be constructed from scratch by you on your premises or you could choose a cloud lab. Testsigma is completely cloud-based and you only pay for what you use. bn in 2016.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. Their training infrastructure relies on a hybrid cloud approach.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

KeyCDN

MARCH 22, 2023

Why a website security check is so important In 2019, it was found that over 60% of websites were vulnerable at the time of infection. Use a Web Application Firewall A WAF or Web Application Firewall uses rigid rules to filter the inflowing traffic, blocklisting IPs that are suspected to be associated with hacking DDoS attacks.

Website 60

Website Servers Ecommerce Google 60

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. Their training infrastructure relies on a hybrid cloud approach.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As of 2019, ProgrammableWeb provides searchable access to almost 22,000 APIs, with more being added on a daily basis. They are, of course, not a complete solution, as they can be intercepted like any other network traffic. New public Synthetic locations from already supported cloud vendors. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring IoT Tuning Traffic 25

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. Cloud Hosting. That said, there are still a number of limitations that come from cloud hosting. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. More still, very little of that downtime was related to the SAP cloud platform. Dynatrace news.

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Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 244

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re expanding to all the availability zones that are provided by your cloud regions. More space for redundancy and additional options for managing any potential cloud vendor issues, or issues caused by external events. What are the details of the roll-out plan for new IP addresses?

Scalability 20

Scalability Traffic Benchmarking Monitoring 20

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” As the uncommitted respondents (again, 60%) grapple with issues surrounding the main components of Next Architecture—decomposition, containers, the cloud, and orchestration—serverless adoption would seem poised for considerable growth in the next 12 to 18 months. Rating of success of serverless adoption among survey respondents.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic. We won’t need to worry about backups.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. Disney announced they would have a streaming service, while Netflix subscribers reached an all-time high with 137.1 million Netflix users as of Q3 2018.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. ESG’s The Maturation of Cloud-Native Security eBook. Why is web application security important?

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 186

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Uptime guarantee available: DigitalOcean is a cheap cloud hosting that promises 99.99% uptime which they have greatly succeeded in our test. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. John Stevens.

Testing 50

Testing Website Servers Availability 50

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The vision was to create a “Studio in the Cloud”, with applications supporting every part of the business from pitch to play. You’ll hear from two teams here: first Application Security, and then Cloud Gateway. into every conversation. The first was that there were too many security things that each software team needed to think about?

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

This includes the communication process, TNS Listener, so all incoming and outgoing traffic will be associated with the group. in November 2019 as it reached end-of-life on June, 27th 2019 – see.NET Core official support policy. support has been extended and will reach end-of-life in November 2019. Cloud Foundry.

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Java Cloud Traffic Virtualization 105

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Because we analyzed the results of our Autonomous Cloud Survey and sat down with a handful of these companies that provided answers to questions such as: What’s your Commit Cycle Time? Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. Dynatrace news.

Architecture 126

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 126

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. DHH : We’re stopping all major product development at Basecamp for the moment, and dedicating all our attention to fixing these single points of failure that the recent cloud outages have revealed. Worse usually is better.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices. Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g.

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Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Use in traffic systems: Using IoT technology, delivery, traffic or transportation tracking, asset tracking, inventory control, customer management, and individual order tracking can be more cost-effective with the right tracking system.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Dynatrace news.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 26