The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications. This is a continuous process,” Fuqua said. It’s an enterprise product that we use to help modernize the VA,” Fuqua said.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. This significantly increases event latency.

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Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 185

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. IT pros need a data and analytics platform that doesn’t require sacrifices among speed, scale, and cost. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Metrics matter. But without complex analytics to make sense of them in context, metrics are often too raw to be useful on their own. To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. Examples of metric calculations. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github. VMAF has become a de facto standard for evaluating the performance of encoding systems and driving encoding optimizations. This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this goal.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

Ben Rushlo, Dynatrace Vice President of DEM Services, puts it this way: “As performance degrades, user experience degrades, engagement degrades, and business outcomes degrade.” Metrics that offer measurable, repeatable insight into the user experience from the moment they arrive on a website from a mobile or desktop device.

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Metrics Google Website Speed 134

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Echoing John Van Siclen’s sentiments from his Perform 2020 keynote, Steve cited Dynatrace customers as the inspiration and driving force for these innovations. “A Highlighting the company’s announcements from Perform 2020, Steve and a team of other Dynatrace product leaders introduced the audience to several of our latest innovations.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. In our conversation, I mentioned the new Dynatrace Metrics ingestion and off we went. ??

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Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 157

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. What challenges do CMPs create for performance?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed. Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. Once teams solidify infrastructure and application performance, security is the subsequent priority.

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Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail can store and process 1,000 petabytes per day,” Greifeneder explains.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. The volume of travel spending booked online is expected to reach nearly $1.5

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2020

— Excerpt from How Garbage Collection works in the Dynatrace Performance eBook) . However, garbage collection is one of the main sources of performance and scalability issues in any modern Java application. Garbage collection is slow if most objects survive the collection process.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

During a breakout session at the Dynatrace Perform 2024 conference, Dynatrace DevSecOps activist Andreas Grabner and staff engineer Adam Gardner demonstrated how to use observability to monitor an IDP for key performance indicators (KPIs). This process is vital to an IDP’s effectiveness.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, we often get asked about another area of the DevTools – the ‘Performance’ tab. Accessing the DevTools Performance Tab. Recording Runtime Performance.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 3, 2024

The hardest part about web performance isn’t making your site faster – it’s keeping it that fast. Hearing about a company that devoted significant effort into optimizing their site, only to find their performance right back where it started a few months later, is all too familiar.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Provide self-service platform services with dedicated UI for development teams to improve developer experience and increase speed of delivery. It enables the execution of configuration actions based on observability insights, such as resource consumption and performance management across all clusters.

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Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 279

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. This is what this blog is all about.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. Thus, Grail was born.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet for measuring performance. Átila Fassina. Web Vitals.

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Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 203

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Logs assist operations, security, and development teams in ensuring the reliability and performance of application environments. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues.

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Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 226

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Huge performance leaps in recent years The top priority is often performance, where ARM resources have improved significantly.

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Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 271

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2015, the Spring folks already regarded Dynatrace as the gold standard for performance monitoring. Spring also introduced Micrometer, a vendor-agnostic metric API with rich instrumentation options. Soon after, Dynatrace built a registry for exporting Micrometer metrics.

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