The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. for streaming traffic. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips.

Network 237

Network Media Transportation Traffic 237

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 23, 2024

Some servers have accelerators and you'll want their analysis tools installed as well: e.g., on Intel GPU servers, the intel-gpu-tools package; on NVIDIA, nvidia-smi. On cloud instances, adding Mbytes to the base server image can add seconds, or fractions of a second, to instance deployment time. This list is a minimum.

Servers 145

Servers Traffic Network Systems 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 222

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Our network-device monitoring solution will ultimately provide more than just SNMP extensions.

Metrics 244

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

Traffic 164

Traffic Java Network DevOps 164

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. patronictl list did not display this server. Master/Primary Server Tests. Reboot the server. Failover happened and one of the standby servers was elected as the new master after obtaining the lock. Network Isolation Tests. Test Scenario. Observation.

Availability 277

Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. OSDI’20.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. SNMP managed the costs of network links well, but not the sources of those costs (i.e., Dynatrace news. Performance has always mattered.

Network 166

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 166

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Networking. What is Docker?

Open Source 301

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. For Premium HA, this has been extended from 10 ms latency (in the same network region) to around 100 ms network latency due to asynchronous data replication between regions.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. It detects regressions and deviations from previously observed behavior across metrics such as latency, traffic, error rates, saturation, security coverage, vulnerability risk levels, and memory consumption.

Best Practices 223

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 223

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 220

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 220

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic. TCP Server. // Start TCP server. listener, _ := net.Listen("tcp", ":1234"). defer conn.Close().

Traffic 166

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross data-center traffic. Upgrade OpenTracing instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

Java 233

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 233

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

Website 215

Website Monitoring Retail Media 215

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 114

Storage Network Open Source Latency 114

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic? That’s where rules come in. What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. 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).

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

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 click “Apache Web Server apache” now.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Once the user submits the form, this part establishes REST connections to the agents, which execute the network call appropriate for the provided URL and return all information they managed to gather to the central PHP service.

Metrics 180

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 180

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. Hopefully never.)

Social Media 130

Social Media Cache Traffic Media 130

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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. It takes on the crucial role of directing web traffic across various data centers, known as “origins.” What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

Efficiency 108

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 108

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing.

Azure 145

Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145

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. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108