The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Without having network visibility, it’s not possible to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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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.

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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

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

As monolithic applications have given way to cloud-connected microservices that perform distinct functions, containerized environments, such as the Kubernetes platform, have become the framework of choice. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

Traffic 247

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 247

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. availability.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 228

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Managed DBaaS solutions like ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Help systems meet SLAs.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Common findings. Dynatrace and AWS.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 146

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. This multinational information technology service and consulting company was asked to help a global automotive manufacturer with the management goal of measuring service flow performance. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). Saturation.

Automotive 275

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this use case, Greifeneder said, the goal was to optimize the Dynatrace platform itself and make it “as performant and cost-effective” for customers as possible. The Dynatrace team gathered cloud billing data, infrastructure data, networking data, and analyzed that data in Dynatrace Notebooks.

Innovation 203

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 203

Tech News Gather

MAY 27, 2024

When Scaling Operations: As demand grows, consultants can assist in scaling your ACI deployment efficiently, making sure that it remains cost-effective and performs reliably under increased loads. By analyzing usage patterns and adjusting resource allocations, they can help you minimize expenses without sacrificing performance.

Azure 52

Azure Best Practices Virtualization Scalability 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 SIGCOMM’20. 5G Coverage.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. Several promising ideas were abandoned owing to the outsized work needed to overcome architectural limitations. The microservice architecture provides strong decoupling between services.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

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. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. Some key advantages include:1.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

With MongoDB, you can set read-only privileges in which users can query data but cannot perform write operations. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

Cache 201

Cache Architecture Database Government 201

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Improved performance and availability. Inconsistent performance.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. Now you can: Understand the actual architecture of your applications in Kubernetes in real-time.

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 102

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. Dynatrace news. An observability framework alone is not enough.

Traffic 170

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 170

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes.

Analytics 190

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 190

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233