The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance. Five Nines availability or 99.999%, also referred to as "the gold standard" significantly reduces downtime (5.26

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Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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 designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

In the 2023 Perform session “SLOs done right: A practitioners guide,” Michael Cabrera, SRE lead at Vivint, and Andreas Grabner, DevSecOps activist at Dynatrace, break down the state of SLOs and discuss how teams can adopt successful SLOs, avoid less-than-ideal objectives, and ultimately build better SLOs.

DevOps 214

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 214

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. The proxy is designed to run continuously without needing to be restarted. This method is beneficial in creating multiple instances.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Our teams have seen application usage surge across our customer base, causing an urgent need for organizations to provide advanced observability for their applications to optimize user experiences and performance. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 200

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. Dynatrace Operator for OneAgent, API monitoring, routing, and more.

Cloud 224

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 224

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

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 designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time. Over the lifecycle of a device connected to the RAE, the device can change attributes at any time.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

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 designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

The ideal end user experience is friction-free: users can access available and functional applications how, when, and where they want. Peter Vinh (Solution Lead of Digital Experience at Dynatrace) during Perform 22 session. But how do companies ensure they’re delivering this level of omnichannel user experience? DEM in action.

Mobile 166

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 166

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. IP Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

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 designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

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Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 98

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This was a custom built, 3-step pipeline: Capture the production traffic for the desired path(s) Replay the traffic against the two services in the TEST environment Compare and assert for differences It was a self-contained flow that, by design, captured entire requests, and not just the one path we requested.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As an application owner, you might want to ingest performance or business metrics into Dynatrace from various sources and take advantage of the full power of Davis AI topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting. To solve this, we’ve made the same Metric API available for OneAgent.

Metrics 167

Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic 167

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

As organizations increasingly migrate their applications to the cloud, efficient and scalable load balancing becomes pivotal for ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications. What Is Load Balancing?

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Azure Scalability Traffic Performance 275

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. It optimizes performance through monitoring tools and expert support, offers scalable solutions, and ensures high data security with end-to-end encryption and compliance adherence.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions. This functionality is most useful to application owners who need to integrate actionable performance and business metrics into the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. Stay tuned.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 255

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. Also, high-quality documentation is available for developers with any development issues and queries. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. The PHP community is very advanced and resourceful.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Take Triplebyte's multiple-choice quiz (system design and coding questions) to see if they can help you scale your career faster.

Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

We heard from customers and the market that there was a need for more in-depth visibility into desktop applications and how they perform. The obvious challenge is that not all applications are designed or built the same. It is designed to widen the reach of application monitoring capabilities beyond web and HTTP traffic.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Traffic Network Innovation 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production. Identifying performance bottlenecks. LoadView – Best Practices and Process.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00.

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