The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In parallel to the continuous stream of new improvements related to Dynatrace monitoring capabilities, we’re also continuously improving our internal mechanisms. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. See details below. See details below.

Storage 152

Storage Latency Operating System Network 152

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts. Functionality. Performance.

Artificial Intelligence 212

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 212

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Currently, only metrics for individual nodes are available. What’s next.

Software 166

Software Software Programming Metrics 166

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Recovering from a MongoDB rollback involves locating rollback files, using mongorestore to load data into a separate server, cleansing unneeded data, and importing the data back into the primary cluster, coupled with ongoing monitoring and maintenance of replica sets to maintain system health.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Connected devices allow us to extend our senses to remote locations, such as a robot carrying out work on Mars or monitoring remote oil wells. Here's a few examples: IoT sensors in a factory can monitor and predict equipment failure before an accident. This is the exciting future for IoT, and it's closer than you think.

IoT 126

IoT Healthcare Internet Internet 126

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

Juvenal Photo taken in Lisbon Portugal by Adrian Cockcroft The documentation for most monitoring tools describes how to use that tool in isolation, often as if no other tools exist, but sometimes with ways to import or export some of the data to other tools. When auto-scaling is used monitoring is also part of a critical feedback loop.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This well-designed infrastructure allows data scientists and developers to access data, deploy machine learning algorithms, and manage performance and scalability, thereby ensuring high availability, robust security, and scalability. Another significant trend is the expansion of edge computing in AI cloud computing.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. Let’s jump in!

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Avoid over-indexing, which can bloat storage and slow writes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Availability. Monitoring. One minute an SRE might be provisioning storage in AWS, the next minute an SRE might have to talk to customers or go write some Python code for a new project. As part of the responsibility of an SRE, monitoring and observability are a key component of their duties. Performance. On-call Support.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

Availability 254

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 254

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50. The paper is silent on this issue.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

However in the Skylake microarchitecture (you can see a list of CPUs here ) the PAUSE instruction changed and in the documentation it says “the latency of the PAUSE instruction in prior generation microarchitectures is about 10 cycles, whereas in Skylake microarchitecture it has been extended to as many as 140 cycles.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). support for logging, monitoring, and observability. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. Storage provisioning. But Kubernetes storage is evolving quite quickly. optimised container networking and security.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For response times (latencies) reporting a simple metric such as ‘average’ is next to useless. Instead we want to understand what’s happening at different latency percentiles (e.g A characteristic of latency distributions is that they have a long tail. Why do we need a new sketch? At the 50th percentile, an accuracy within 0.5%

Latency 52

Latency Metrics Open Source Java 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

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. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

Latency 186

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 186

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

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. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

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.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. Processing latency is minimum If only you can infinitely scale your data pipeline, processing latency can be guaranteed to be minimum, but we know for sure that is not true.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. At every step, relevant stakeholders are informed, and key metrics are monitored, including service, device, operational, and business metrics.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 110

Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

DevOps 201

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 201

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. Monitoring Performance. Monitoring is also a huge component to managing a MongoDB deployment. DigitalOcean Droplets.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In PACELC terms we choose PC/EC and have the same level of availability for writes of our previous system while improving our theoretical availability for reads. After the jobs are created, it monitors their execution progress.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Dynatrace news.

AWS 137

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 137

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Dynatrace news.

AWS 134

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 134

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance.

Latency 118

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 118