The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. Our approach to NN-based video downscaling The deep downscaler is a neural network architecture designed to improve the end-to-end video quality by learning a higher-quality video downscaler. For your eyes only!

Network 292

Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

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. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. Disadvantages.

Artificial Intelligence 205

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Government 205

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently.

Serverless 242

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Finally, because the delivery of compute resources happens entirely in the cloud, the technology enables enterprises to go serverless at the local level. Reduced latency. Serverless architecture makes it possible to host code anywhere, rather than relying on an origin server. Architectural complexity. Optimizes resources.

Serverless 163

Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 163

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. However, Redis, with its single-threaded architecture, may encounter bottlenecks with large numbers of concurrent connections.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Adopting an SRE approach also requires that teams standardize the technologies and tools they use. SRE requires a cultural change. Solving for SR.

Engineering 252

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 252

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology. 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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Moving to a multithreaded architecture will require extensive rewrites. But that causes a problem with PostgreSQL’s architecture – forking a process becomes expensive when transactions are very short, as the common wisdom dictates they should be. The PostgreSQL Architecture | Source. The Connection Pool Architecture.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. Key Components of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure A hybrid cloud architecture usually merges a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform with private computing assets and incorporates tools to manage these combined environments.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The technology race never stops. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 190

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. We’ll discuss how the responsibilities of ITOps teams changed with the rise of cloud technologies and agile development methodologies. So, what is ITOps? What is ITOps? Why is IT operations important? Performance.

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Adopting an SRE approach also requires that teams standardize the technologies and tools they use. SRE requires a cultural change. Solving for SR.

Engineering 173

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 173

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. AI algorithms embedded in cloud architecture automate repetitive processes, streamlining workloads and reducing the chance of human error. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., even lowered the latency by introducing a multi-headed device that collapses switches and memory controllers.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2021

Organizations are rapidly adopting multicloud architectures to achieve the agility needed to drive customer success through new digital service channels. Dynatrace’s cloud monitoring capabilities support this by giving Park ‘N Fly a single source of truth into any performance changes across its technology stack in real-time.

Cloud 156

Cloud Monitoring Latency Games 156

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. This will not only reduce the overall latency in displaying the user-feeds to users but will also prevent re-computation of user-feeds. Sending and receiving messages from other users.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. They are particularly important in distributed systems, such as microservices architectures. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases.

Artificial Intelligence 175

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 175

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace news. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. Efficient environment configuration at scale One of software engineers’ most significant challenges is managing the numerous tools and technologies required for the software product lifecycle.

Best Practices 186

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 186

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

However, the Bitcoin-iteration of this technology also shows why blockchain isn’t a direct replacement for your enterprise databases. Rather than trying to force blockchain to work as a database replacement, take advantage of your database technology to unlock blockchain’s benefits. NewSQL Databases for Blockchain Innovation.

Blockchain 45

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 45

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

However, the Bitcoin-iteration of this technology also shows why blockchain isn’t a direct replacement for your enterprise databases. Rather than trying to force blockchain to work as a database replacement, take advantage of your database technology to unlock blockchain’s benefits. NewSQL Databases for Blockchain Innovation.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Dynatrace news. This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring.

Monitoring 216

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 216

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Lambda’s highly efficient, on-demand computing environment aligns with today’s microservices-centric architectures, and readily integrates with other popular AWS offerings that an organization may already be using. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. When not to use AWS Lambda.

Lambda 178

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless. two ideas that I think are very useful when we’re using technology as rapidly deployable as Serverless ones. I thought a few folks might be interested.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that while static content may inherently lack personalization, modern technologies are emerging that can manipulate it to deliver a more personalized experience. By storing cached copies of your website's static content in multiple data centers, CDNs bring content closer to end users, reducing latency and improving load times.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

AWS 52

AWS Virtualization DevOps Latency 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Digital transformation, the process of integrating digital technology into all areas of a business, is a foundational change in how modern organizations deliver value to customers and improve internal processes. Cloud migration can also be an opportunity for organizations to embrace green-field technologies and projects from the ground up.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86