The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A few noteworthy examples include: Realtime monitoring of Netflix streaming health which examines all of Netflix’s streaming video traffic in realtime and accurately identifies negative impact on the viewing experience with fine-grained granularity. Try It Out Today To learn more about Mantis, you can check out the main Mantis page.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A few noteworthy examples include: Realtime monitoring of Netflix streaming health which examines all of Netflix’s streaming video traffic in realtime and accurately identifies negative impact on the viewing experience with fine-grained granularity. Try It Out Today To learn more about Mantis, you can check out the main Mantis page.

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Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms. Automate IT operations.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. So, what makes DigitalOcean a compelling alternative to other popular MongoDB hosting providers like AWS and Azure ? DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Likewise, operation specialists can prioritize their efforts on monitoring the highest-risk tactics, and executives can better communicate the business risk. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events.

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Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 201

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace. Host monitoring We start off with the very first layer: the host itself.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! 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.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." " Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

A single indicator is defined as a query against a data source such as a monitoring, testing, security or code quality tool. Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline ….

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Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

AWS Cloud 9 AWS Cloud 9 is ideal for developing PHP applications completely in the cloud. Aptana Studio Aptana Studio boasts a surprising amount of features for an open source IDE. Selenium Selenium is a lightweight, open source testing framework that lets anyone create custom UI tests in any language.

Development 57

Development Open Source Java AWS 57

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This would open up opportunities to leverage existing performance monitoring tools and dashboards, extend optimization tools like autoscalers and schedulers, and to build new kinds of carbon analysis and optimization tools and services. For this reason cloud vendors block access to power measurement interfaces by tenants applications.

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Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master. At ScaleGrid, we offer highly available hosting for MySQL on AWS and MySQL on Azure that is implemented based on the concepts explained in this blog series.

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Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is recommended to lower this setting and monitor the impact on query performance and disk IO. Set the value to 60-70% and monitor the memory usage. Learn how you can Improve MongoDB Performance with Percona Monitoring and Management. This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless I also wrote an article on just this area last year.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Technologies like Microsoft Bot framework, Facebook Bot Engine, and DailougeFlow open-source builds these bots. Image Source. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services. Image Source.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It would take 5–10 minutes after the problem occurred to appear as a problem, then people have to notice and respond to emails or pager text messages, dial into a conference call, and log in to monitoring dashboards before any human response can start. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It would take 5–10 minutes after the problem occurred to appear as a problem, then people have to notice and respond to emails or pager text messages, dial into a conference call, and log in to monitoring dashboards before any human response can start. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Good for raising alarms and monitoring changes over time, not so good for understanding user experience. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Quick Wins.

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