The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. Performance typically addresses response times or latency aspects and contributes to the four golden signals.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? In this post, I’ll lay out five foundational service level objective examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Siloed teams and multiple tools make it difficult to align on a single version of the truth for overall system health.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Example 1: Architecture boundaries.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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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. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. Grabner and Cabrera offer the example of an iOS app experiencing crash issues after a team deploys a new version.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Let’s examine a few examples of answer-driven automation using AI and context. DevOps automation example #2: Threat detection and response Let’s build on the previous example.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours. Self-contained turnkey solution.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections. That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s take our previous screenshot as an example.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. Example call graph in Edgar In some cases, the question we’re answering is, “What’s happening right now??”

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). What is real user monitoring?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. Regional traffic evacuations. An example of a Telltale notification in Slack. So we built Telltale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The common way to deal with this is to measure percentiles, and track the 90%, 99% response times for example. For example lets say you have a 99% within 2 seconds SLA, and your current 99%ile measured over one minute is 1 second. There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. This segregation facilitates optimized I/O operations, preventing potential bottlenecks and enhancing overall system performance. Who can benefit from DLV?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. The coupling problem Until recently, video quality measurements were generated as part of our Reloaded production system. We call this system Cosmos.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is particularly beneficial during high-traffic periods or when serving content to a large audience.All of these benefits apply to modern applications that process user thumbnails. For example, BBC and CNN benefit greatly from dynamic content. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Let’s walk through an example: Database: MySQL. Cloud Provider: AWS. Expert Tip.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. See example below. source connectors and sink connectors) Processors are reusable.

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