The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF.

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Stay tuned. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time.

Open Source 260

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 260

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. Basically, what we call “first-generation” monitoring software.

Best Practices 165

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 165

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe

Storage 117

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 117

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Stay tuned for more in 2022! Large preview ). Large preview ).

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Data Pipeline using Delta In the following sections, we are going to describe the Delta-Connector that connects to a datastore and publishes CDC events to the Transport Layer, which is a real-time data transportation infrastructure routing CDC events to Kafka topics. Please stay tuned.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Obviously, without the need to have to rent or buy physical servers, it can be more cost-effective for organizations to forego the traditional route of having to manage their physical infrastructure and only pay for the time and memory utilized to run your code/applications. Scalability. Monitoring. This is known as a cold start.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

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. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Watch webinar now! Networking.

Open Source 310

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 310

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated. Apica has the technical knowledge and infrastructure capacity to test any of the world’s largest online streaming services.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

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.

Traffic 252

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

It enables them to adapt to user feedback swiftly, fine-tune feature releases, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while maintaining control and minimizing disruption. Change impact analysis is an indispensable process for effectively managing changes within an organization’s infrastructure and applications.

DevOps 228

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 228

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Regional traffic evacuations. Infrastructure change events. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Do we have the ability (process, frameworks, tooling) to quickly deploy new services and underlying IT infrastructure and if we do, do we know that we are not disrupting our end users? Dynatrace as a managed AWS workload, and as an option, have the network traffic to Dynatrace run over PrivateLink so that traffic never leaves AWS.

AWS 147

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 147

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity. Distributed traces are the path of a transaction as it touches applications, services, and infrastructure from beginning to end.

Analytics 195

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 195

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Full-stack and infrastructure monitoring modes. For more details, see Get started with infrastructure monitoring. Stay tuned for more details.

Java 134

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 134

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. So stay tuned! HTTP monitor locations use the same set of IP addresses as the browser monitoring locations.

Monitoring 261

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 261

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Heading over to `Infrastructure` / `Hosts` in your dashboard, you should now have an entry for the host where you installed OneAgent. Monitoring garbage collection rates provides insights into memory management, helps detect memory leaks, assesses performance impact, facilitates tuning and optimization, and aids in capacity planning.

Metrics 179

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was created as a single monolithic system, where developers from various media teams in ET and our platform partner team Content Infrastructure and Solutions (CIS)¹ worked on the same codebase, building a single system that handled all media assets. The service also provides options that allow fine-tuning latency, throughput, etc.,

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version. Stay tuned for another blog post demonstrating how Dynatrace Cloud Automation addresses velocity, resilience, and scalability from a practitioner’s point of view. What’s next.

Cloud 174

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 174

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

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 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 93

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 93

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Mesh provides a drag-and-drop, self-service user interface for exploring sources and creating pipelines so that users can focus on delivering business value without having to worry about managing and scaling complex data streaming infrastructure. Please stay tuned! We will have follow up blog posts on these topics in future.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A bridge between two worlds To live such a life, we developed several “bridging” workflows, which allow us to route video quality traffic from Reloaded into Cosmos. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. In other words, how do we manage living a life in both worlds?

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. This can be detected during any canary deployment or blue/green traffic routing to a new version. Stay tuned for more release advice as well as automation provided by Dynatrace for release risk management and automated release decision making based on SLOs.

Metrics 156

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dynatrace knows critical details about the application in addition to the CVSS of a vulnerability; its real-user sessions, if it’s connected to a database, if it’s reachable from the public internet, if it has heavy or low traffic, and which other services it’s talking to. Stay tuned – this is only the start.

Cloud 297

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 297

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52