The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

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

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.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP) traffic flow (characterized by a 5-tuple on a per network interface basis) that occurs within an aggregation interval.

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

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.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

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. depending on the use case.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context. Now, that same full-spectrum value is available at the massive scale of the Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse.

Analytics 195

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 195

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. Stay tuned for more examples and easy-to-adopt automations provided in our public Github project. Furthermore, increasing the frequency of releases requires additional product lifecycle automation and setup.

Best Practices 198

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 198

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. Things got hairy.

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160

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 115

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 115

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Especially as software development continually evolves using microservices, containerized architecture, distributed multicloud platforms, and open-source code. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 185

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

Java 134

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 134

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. A bridge between two worlds To live such a life, we developed several “bridging” workflows, which allow us to route video quality traffic from Reloaded into Cosmos. via bug fixes). We call this system Cosmos.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The rapidly evolving digital landscape is one important factor in the acceleration of such transformations – microservices architectures, service mesh, Kubernetes, Functions as a Service (FaaS), and other technologies now enable teams to innovate much faster. So please stay tuned for updates. Technical scalability without limits.

Analytics 161

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 161

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. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In Netflix the microservice architecture is widely adopted and each microservice typically handles only one type of data. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. The architecture of the framework is illustrated in the following Chart.

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

scaling up in case more resources are needed, redirect traffic for certain users, clear log directories, … In order to react fast, it is mandatory to automate as many of these tasks. Now – let’s talk a bit more about the architecture! Keptn Architecture Explained. That will happen by e.g: until the latest 0.2.2 (as

Cloud 201

Cloud Open Source Traffic Architecture 201

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. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. Dynatrace news. We’re happy to say that this project is moving along at a steady pace. “So what did you change, exactly?

Storage 116

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 116

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

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 12, 2023

Stay tuned. When developers use the front-end and back-end together, it is called coupled CMS architecture. The Architecture of Headless WordPress We have already discussed about the standard WordPress architecture. It is also called coupled architecture. This post answers all your queries in detail.

Website 52

Website Development Scalability Architecture 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing. For some reason this thing will not go away! Legacy Profiler "Standard" trace events. An Updated XE Session.

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Azure Database Tuning Network 96

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. Please stay tuned! We will have follow up blog posts on these topics in future. Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In serverless architecture, when applications are developed, they are typically composed of many different services. Other benefits to serverless architecture include the following: Cost. There is plenty to like about moving to a serverless architecture, but there can be some disadvantages compared to the traditional, monolithic model.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

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. Stay tuned – this is only the start.

Cloud 296

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 296

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. mongodb-sysctl.conf – if /etc/sysctl.d

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Andrej Karpathy has advice regarding model architecture: don’t be a hero. It wasn’t a wasted exercise though: The value of the whole exercise was that it validated that the entire NN pipeline was production ready and capable of serving live traffic. Tuning the model. Don’t be a hero, in the beginning. Feeding the model.

Network 82

Network Architecture Tuning Traffic 82

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. How are we able to do this?

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2019

But in today’s fast-changing technology world driven by IoT, microservice based architectures, mobile app integration, automation, and containerization, modern businesses are faced with API security issues more than ever. They are, of course, not a complete solution, as they can be intercepted like any other network traffic.

Monitoring 25

Monitoring IoT Tuning Traffic 25

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 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

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