The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We tried a few iterations of what this new service should look like, and eventually settled on a modern architecture that aimed to give more control of the API experience to the client teams. service with a composable JavaScript API that made downstream microservice calls, replacing the old Java API. Java…Script? It was a Node.js

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

Database 114

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 114

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions.

Java 132

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks.

Storage 132

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 132

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Further expanding our support for OpenTelemetry metrics as well as out-of-the-box OpenTracing Java instrumentation, Dynatrace is happy to announce OneAgent support for the capture of OpenTelemetry trace data for Go. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Traffic 159

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 159

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

In large organizations, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of applications — each with its own specific infrastructure requirements based on architecture, function, traffic, and more. This approach to IAC uses object-oriented programming languages, such as Java or C++.

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Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 198

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 next layer is defined by the languages you want to use, Java, Python, Go, , Javascript, Rust etc, and the ecosystem of library functions you bought from a vendor or downloaded.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” crabbone : This is the prism through which Java programmers view the world. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dynatrace knows critical details about the application in addition to the CVSS of a vulnerability; its real-user sessions, if it’s connected to a database, if it’s reachable from the public internet, if it has heavy or low traffic, and which other services it’s talking to. Automatic “crown jewel” protection and comprehensive CISO reporting.

Cloud 280

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 280

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Monitoring IBM Power Systems isn’t a simple task, due to its specific architecture, there aren’t many tools available on the market. These measurements are also performed for all processes detected by OneAgent on monitored AIX hosts, including, but not limited to, Java and Apache/IHS processes.

Availability 102

Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 102

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Component-Based Architecture Saves Time. Reactjs has introduced the concept of component-based architecture to the web development arena. This component-based architecture helps in collating an array of more extensive UI and converts them into an independent, self-sufficient micro-system. Abstraction layer issue.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Push based task scheduling interface Current Conductor architecture is based on polling from a worker to get tasks that it will execute. However, there is no official Python client in Pypi, and lacks some of the newer additions to the Java client. Python client in Pypi We have seen wide adoption of Python client within the community.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

– New Architectures. LoadRunner) or Java (e.g. The level of support for mobile technologies differs drastically: from the very basic ability to record HTTP traffic from a mobile device and play it back against the server up to end-to-end testing for native mobile applications and providing a “device cloud”

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

Testsigma

MAY 21, 2021

Angular is still one of the most used Javascript-based frameworks for high traffic websites. The playwright is a Nodejs based open-source web automation library that is built on similar architecture as that of the Puppeteer. JavaScript and TypeScript , Python , Java , C# 14. Possibility of cross-browser testing? PlayWright.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Infrastructure 52

ScaleOut Software

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In the above power grid example, the code needed only consists of a few lines of Java code which embed a set of rules for interpreting state changes from a node in the power grid. Others include fleet and traffic management, healthcare, financial services, IoT, and e-commerce recommendations.

Code 52

Code Analytics Healthcare IoT 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Availability 30

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 30

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Written by Colby Callahan , Megha Manohara , and Mike Azar.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams adopting the [frameworks that are most popular among the "in" crowd]([link] are less reliably delivering acceptably fast sites versus the previous generation of web architectures.[^your-ecommerce-site-is-not-an-spa] But even stripped of third-party slowness, "modern" web projects are, on average, unacceptably slow.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled microservice architecture and with a global studio footprint, surfacing and connecting the data from microservices into a studio data catalog in real time has become more important than ever. CDC events can also be sent to Data Mesh via a Java Client Producer Library.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. So, if we evacuate South American traffic to North America, demand for CE and Android DRM won’t grow uniformly.

Traffic 190

Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 190

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Adding to the complexity, many of the checklist items themselves had a variety of different options to fulfill them (“new apps do this , but legacy apps do that”; “Java apps should use this approach , but Ruby apps should try one of these four things”… yes, there were flowcharts inside checklists.

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

No matter whether you use in-house deployments or hosted solutions, you can quickly stand up an Elasticsearch cluster, and start integrating it from your application using one of the clients provided based on your programming language (Elasticsearch has a rich set of languages it supports; Java, Python, .Net, Net, Ruby, Perl etc.).

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

Cache 187

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 187

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

When making the move to a service-oriented architecture, Amazon refactored its software into small independent services and restructured its organization into small autonomous teams. An automated deployment system needs to carefully sequence a software update across a fleet while it is actively receiving traffic.

Engineering 165

Engineering AWS Java Traffic 165