The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. What characterizes a weak SLO?

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 235

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules.

Engineering 199

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 182

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces. Type > to see a list of all available search categories.

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Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 219

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 224

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. What is VPC Flow Logs. These include Source IP, destination IP, transport protocol, source port, and destination port.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 226

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 185

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 227

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% availability.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. As you might know, we recently simplified observability for all custom metrics by making it possible to ingest hundreds of custom data sources into Dynatrace.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 245

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. With this announcement, Dynatrace brings the value of its AI engine, the scale, security, and automation of Dynatrace OneAgent and the scale of our platform (which can handle 50,000 hosts) to open source technologies so that you get the best of both worlds.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 260

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. The result?

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DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 224

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Reliability.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 273

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 310

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022. Krasula, A.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Frederick O’Brien.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Furthermore, with this update you can: Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. On the overview page you’ll find the metrics aggregated across all detected pools.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 140

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

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Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. Start monitoring in minutes. As with other extensions based on the new Dynatrace Extensions 2.0

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 219

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 242

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

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. Dynatrace news. Initial SLO management dashboard.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 278

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. In these circumstances, Site Reliability Engineering teams face two big challenges: Measuring uptime is not enough anymore.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Provide metrics for improved site reliability. This profusion of tools at different stages means teams across the organization—such as developers, site reliability engineers, and security professionals—can have difficulty sharing data and insights. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Help systems meet SLAs.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

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

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Real user monitoring limitations.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Configuration of the CPU metrics can be changed in the dashboard.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives?

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 214

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Additionally, with OneAgent version 1.205, out-of-the-box service-level insights into your Istio Ingress/Egress Envoys is also generally available. Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through a service mesh.

Traffic 215

Traffic Monitoring Technology Technology 215

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

In the first part of this three-part series, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry , we talked about observability and how OpenTelemetry works to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. api/v2/otlp/v1/traces'; $metricsURL = $baseURL. '/api/v2/otlp/v1/metrics';

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Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 195

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? ” The short answer is, “ It depends.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. All this comes with the Dynatrace zero-configuration approach, automatic service detection, continuous data capture in context, and answers, not just data, from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine, making you ready for large-scale Azure deployments. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB. Azure DB for MySQL.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 151