The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

Traffic 342

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. Error budget burn rate = Error Rate / (1 – Target) Best practices in SLO configuration To detect if an entity is a good candidate for strong SLO, test your SLO.

Efficiency 235

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 235

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives.

Software 273

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 273

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

Performance 182

Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 182

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Best practices to consider. Website monitoring.

Cloud 231

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 231

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. With this objective, the app ensures that users experience real-time feedback and immediate updates when logging workouts, recording sets and reps, or tracking performance metrics. The Apdex score of 0.85

Latency 185

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 185

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

Serverless 216

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 216

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. With this objective, the app ensures that users experience real-time feedback and immediate updates when logging workouts, recording sets and reps, or tracking performance metrics. The Apdex score of 0.85

Traffic 174

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors. This is because each of these traffic vectors comes with unique challenges. The following are three strategies worth considering.

Testing 217

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 217

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given the momentum of DevOps and SRE, digital transformation goals can be achieved when automation enables organizations to apply best practices rapidly and to keep pace with the scale of the organization and applications. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps 227

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 227

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

DevOps 195

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 195

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. But with this framework, it has to be designed more carefully as bulk data reprocessing will be done in parallel with the production traffic. We collect the failure metrics to be checked and fixed later.

Media 237

Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 210

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats. Log management best practices for improved performance.

Systems 193

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 193

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency.

Automotive 278

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 278

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. these metrics are also automatically analyzed by Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis ).

AWS 147

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 147

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

In the first part of this three-part series, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry , we talked about observability and how OpenTelemetry works to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. api/v2/otlp/v1/traces'; $metricsURL = $baseURL. '/api/v2/otlp/v1/metrics';

Transportation 195

Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging. Efficient and effective log audit and forensics practices can require specialized understanding of cloud environments, applications, and log formats.

Analytics 194

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 194

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for.

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025. Voorhies also points to leveraging baselines to define key experience standards, identify best practices, and create SLAs and budgets.

Mobile 173

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 173

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? ” The short answer is, “ It depends.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. These tags will allow us to create dashboards, request attributes or calculate service metrics specifically for our application under test. This allows us to analyze metrics (SLIs) for each individual endpoint URL.

Engineering 199

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 199

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.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO. An agreement within the SLA that states specific metric, like uptime, response time, security, issue resolution, etc.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. By analyzing disk I/O metrics, you can optimize queries to reduce disk reads or upgrade to faster storage solutions. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Which metrics should I use?” Which values of these metrics are acceptable?”. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. Adding 20% to them and set as your next goals.

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of our customers also run their.NET, ASP.NET,NET Core, SQL Server, CRM, SharePoint … applications on AWS and have reached out to us in the past to ask about best practices around optimizing these workloads in order to run more efficiently and more cost effective. Are they receiving traffic? #3:

AWS 128

AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 128

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

Cache 204

Cache Architecture Database Government 204

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131