The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. 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. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability. Remember that less is more.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 228

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 269

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 192

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

In the 2023 Perform session “SLOs done right: A practitioners guide,” Michael Cabrera, SRE lead at Vivint, and Andreas Grabner, DevSecOps activist at Dynatrace, break down the state of SLOs and discuss how teams can adopt successful SLOs, avoid less-than-ideal objectives, and ultimately build better SLOs.

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DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 220

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Self-contained turnkey solution.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 251

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

After the jobs are created, it monitors their execution progress. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today, every business wants high-performing and high-quality software. But usually, it is seen that most of the applications fail to deliver expected performance under peak load or fluctuating network conditions. What Is Performance Testing? Today, let's learn more about this testing type in depth.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Latency 122

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For workloads that require high performance, organizations would be better suited by purchasing their own servers. However, when the time comes for resources to be requested, there can be latency in the time it takes to for that code to start back up. Monitoring. Monitoring Serverless Applications. Response Times.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards. There were no dynamic web applications or complex user scenarios to have to monitor. monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. Onto the next project. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production assets operations are performed in parallel with older data reprocessing without any service downtime. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Instead we use Elasticsearch to search those assets which are more performant.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality. The monitoring team set up the dashboard, so who owns violations? In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component.

Automotive 275

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. The result would be a performance drop in the end users’ experience, often causing the application to become unusable.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 195

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

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost. We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. Monitoring Performance.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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. Improved performance and availability. Inconsistent performance.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., What is the end-to-end throughput and latency, and where are the bottlenecks? Throughput and latency. 5G network paths achieve an average latency of 21.8ms, a 32% reduction on the comparable 4G times.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Canary Test Workloads In addition to serving the regular message traffic between users and DUTs, the control plane itself is stress-tested at roughly 3-hour intervals, where nearly 3000 ephemeral MQTT clients are created to connect to and generate flash traffic on the MQTT brokers. million elements.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. The user can choose the most suitable tool for manipulating data, such as Pandas or Polars to use a dataframe API, or one of our internal C++ libraries for various high-performance operations.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. The result would be a performance drop in the end users’ experience, often causing the application to become unusable.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing AI-powered full-stack monitoring capabilities , Dynatrace has long featured broad support for Azure Services and intuitive, native integration with extensions for using OneAgent on Azure. Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB.

Azure 150

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 150

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. Synthetic Monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40