The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Distributed Storage Architecture Distributed storage systems are designed with a core framework that includes the main system controller, a data repository for the system, and a database. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

Government 200

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 200

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As a result, reliance on cloud computing for infrastructure and application development has increased during the pandemic era. First, cloud environments present substantial observability issues given their increasing complexity and dynamism. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments. at Venetian Delfino 4006.

AWS 209

AWS Cloud Lambda Azure 209

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 174

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 174

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. All this is easier said than done because: Kubernetes-based dynamic architecture is becoming the norm. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work. Host group.

Storage 223

Storage Government Network Infrastructure 223

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. And this poses a significant risk.

Government 222

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 222

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. Where does it come from?

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Components of high availability infrastructure Multiple copies of data Data redundancy helps prevent data loss due to hardware or software failures.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. Observability defined. Where traditional monitoring falls flat. The case for observability.

DevOps 150

DevOps Monitoring Cloud Artificial Intelligence 150

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! A highly distributed architecture like this has a lot of potential for performance and architectural hotspots.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This restriction might lead to a scenario where companies must build their own infrastructure to provide the network, avoiding CDN entirely. Here’s where CDN’s global architecture will not be as advantageous. ConclusionContent Delivery Networks have revolutionized the way we access content online.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But cloud transformation makes detecting the epicenter of a failure much more challenging, as outages can be caused by your cloud provider, a third party helping deliver personalized experiences, your content delivery network (CDN), and many other services you may be leveraging. But they also introduce exponential complexity.

Mobile 213

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 213

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This restriction might lead to a scenario where companies must build their own infrastructure to provide the network, avoiding CDN entirely. Here’s where CDN’s global architecture will not be as advantageous. One way to overcome this limitation and utilize a proprietary protocol is through the use of WebSockets.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Some time ago, we decided to take a stab at a number of architectural challenges present in the OneAgent installer for Windows. This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. Dynatrace news. exe file and one for the *.msi

Storage 116

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 116

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. It provides detailed information about memory utilization as well as presenting visual representations of CPU consumption with little effort required from users.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

When I think about cloud-native architectures, I think about disaggregation (enabling each resource type to scale independently), fine-grained units of resource allocation (enabling rapid response to changing workload demands, i.e. elasticity), and isolation (keeping tenants apart).

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For the purpose of this series, we’re talking about digital user journeys, which flow through software and infrastructure rather than through people in the field or at service desks. Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Because of its NoSQL origin and document architecture design, MongoDB is much more flexible and scalable than SQL databases such as MySQL. If you are using the open-source Percona Distribution for MongoDB , you also have extra features such as LDAP authentication support, which is present in the Enterprise and Atlas MongoDB versions.

Best Practices 41

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times. LCP seconds over time.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This result s in w eb – service integrations perforat ing firewalls, network content not being captured by intrusion detection and vulnerability scanners miss ing what’s running in production. . It ’s beyond human ability to keep track of all services and their interdependencies.

Cloud 287

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 287

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

We are faced with quickly building a nationwide logistics network and standing up well more than 50,000 vaccination centers. Conventional, enterprise data architectures take months to develop and are complex to change. Is there a simpler, faster way to wrangle this data for crisis managers? Summing Up.

Logistics 84

Logistics Airlines Analytics Ecommerce 84

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. The dark mode is a significant consideration of every web development at present. Serverless Architecture. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. As one of the most interesting current web development trends, serverless architecture has many benefits.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59