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

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. When a server experiences an outage, the system promptly triggers an alert and initiates actions like restarting a server or redirecting traffic to a redundant server.

DevOps 222

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 222

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The next level of observability: OneAgent In the first two parts of our series, we used OpenTelemetry to manually instrument our application and send the telemetry data straight to the Dynatrace analytics back end. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 173

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field. This also aids scalability down the line. Just like a conductor orchestrating an ensemble of instruments to play at specific times for optimal performance.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

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. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency. Network Latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Its support for advanced data structures (for example, lists, sets, and sorted sets) also enables a variety of in-memory use cases such as leaderboards, in-memory analytics, messaging, and more. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Scalability. This also includes latency, or the time it takes for data or a request to get through a network. It is also one of the four golden signals of monitoring, which also includes traffic, error, and saturation. All these benefits provide organization with a more flexible and robust system.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. Using JAMstack delivers better performance, higher scalability with less cost, and overall a better developer experience as well as user experience.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103