The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured. We chose Open-Zipkin because it had better integrations with our Spring Boot based Java runtime environment.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two. us on Centos and 0.68

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two. us on Ubuntu.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two. us on Centos and 0.68

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40