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 present two sets. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

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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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. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs. Log Viewer. Log Events.

AWS 214

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 214

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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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. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

Cloud 118

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 254

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Type > to see a list of all available search categories.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

My Best Christmas Present â?? S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. As such I am very happy that the Amazon S3 team has finally knocked off the last piece of dependency on an external infrastructure piece. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

I posed these questions to a couple of friends and colleagues who are responsible for monitoring critical infrastructure and services and my friend Thomas and my colleagues from the Dynatrace Engineering Productivity shared the following stories and screenshots with me. Example #2 ensuring DevOps tool chain availability at Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Some may monitor web apps, others might be more focused on infrastructure and Kubernetes, and there might even be a separate monitoring tool for native-mobile apps. “You might be asking yourself, ‘Could this be from the underlying infrastructure? Organizations use multiple mobile monitoring tools.

Mobile 168

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 168

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. This 360-degree visibility into user journeys and the underlying applications or infrastructure are key insights provided only by Dynatrace. SREs visualize the state of the system they’re responsible for with powerful Dynatrace dashboards.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 197

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. Infrastructure Optimization. Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s

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Cache Architecture Database Government 195

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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The top 1000 channels from each service are analysed using a custom-built crawling engine, and traffic is intercepted where possible using mitmproxy. Since there was no off-the-shelf crawling infrastructure for OTT devices, the authors then had to build their own. How they did it. Some channels use certificate pinning. The last word.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

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

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. This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. Dynatrace news. “So what did you change, exactly?

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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. Designed with High Availability in mind. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

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. Designed with High Availability in mind. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. Our existing merchants never have to think about the complexity of scaling infrastructure for a record-setting flash sale, and Hydrogen storefronts won’t have to either. Large preview ). Curious to give it a try? Large preview ).

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. All iOS browsers present as Safari to developers. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. In the absence of true A/B testing, our analyses rely on using the available data to adjust away spurious correlations between the treatment and the outcome metrics. It starts with having a good hypothesis and a clear decision framework?—?especially

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. The Gateway To fill these gaps?—?under

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Open Source Network Transportation Cache 186

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Optimizing placements through combinatorial optimization What the OS task scheduler is doing is essentially solving a resource allocation problem: I have X threads to run but only Y CPUs available, how do I allocate the threads to the CPUs to give the illusion of concurrency? It has 8 physical hyperthreaded cores, split on 2 NUMA sockets.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

If you are using the open-source Percona Distribution for MongoDB , you also have extra features such as LDAP authentication support, which is present in the Enterprise and Atlas MongoDB versions. LDAP support is available in MongoDB Enterprise but not in MongoDB Community Edition. What does MongoDB offer to mitigate security threats?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

I think this information is both interesting and useful, in particular given the wide variety of framework and platform choices currently available to front-end and fullstack developers. For this article, I primarily rely on insights gained from analyzing data presented using the Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Checking Top Sites.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 128

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Eventually, we decided to move them to Jekyll.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. It is also one of the four golden signals of monitoring, which also includes traffic, error, and saturation. Blockchain is a good example of this. Three-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74