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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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. There are proven strategies for handling this. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. We refer to this as a BizDevOps strategy.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. Both AWS EC2 instances and Azure VM instances are available as Reserved Instances, and can be used through the BYOC plan.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. Trying to support every version available will only lead to diminishing returns that hurt your company’s profit margins. Load testing to prevent app crashes during high-traffic situations 8.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes.

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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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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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. Deployment Strategies We are all familiar with the advantages of releasing frequently and in smaller chunks.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. It has 8 physical hyperthreaded cores, split on 2 NUMA sockets.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

In today's digital landscape, where user experience is paramount, organizations must ensure their applications and systems are functioning optimally at all times. The Evolution of Testing and Monitoring Historically, software testing and system monitoring have been separate processes, each serving distinct purposes.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. But this allows us to decouple content from code, by moving content to a Content Management System (CMS) we can update information in a few seconds, regardless of how big our application is. On-Demand Builders.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. In this step, a pipeline picks our candidate change, deploys the service, makes it publicly discoverable, and redirects a small percentage of production traffic to this new service.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Still, in extremis , a missing features or the parade of showstopping bugs may render services impossible to deliver.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions. How to execute an effective mobile website testing strategy. Speed and Accuracy.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

We don’t even need a moment to gather which operating system is the most used one. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. We’ve written a detailed blog post on the strategy and tools required for testing a mobile application.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

You just need to hit the URL and launch the application on the available browser on your phone. It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Why is mobile web browser testing important?

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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. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. Architecting Design Systems. Make Design Systems People Want to Use. UX, Design.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. 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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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. With the right backup strategy , you’ll be better able to achieve the aforementioned business continuity. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Helpful Error Tracking Tools You’ll find no shortage of error monitoring tools available online, but they offer varying amounts of insight. A comprehensive bug testing strategy should incorporate them all: 1. What is Error Tracking?

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Many organizations, somewhat erroneously, respond to cloud complexity by using multiple tools to monitor and manage system health. Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads. High data availability is achieved. Scalable reads across multiple instances are possible.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud strategy which compels US federal agencies to consider Cloud Computing first as the target for their IT operations: To harness the benefits of cloud computing, we have instituted a Cloud First policy.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Organizations that have transitioned to agile software development strategies (including the adoption of a DevOps culture and continuous delivery automation) enforce automated solutions for such decision making—or at the very least, use automation in the gathering of a release-quality metrics. Release information from issue tracking systems.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This segregation facilitates optimized I/O operations, preventing potential bottlenecks and enhancing overall system performance. Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post can help you get acquainted with the most prominent security risks and protection strategies. ‍How CDN Vendors Can Protect Themselves and Their Customer DataCDNs can employ various security measures and CDN security best practices to protect the content they deliver and ensure the integrity and availability of their services.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. 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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Strategy: Choosing your path Having a strategy for your migration will make the move to open source go that much smoother. Your approach should align with your goals, abilities, and organizational requirements, and there are some common migration strategies for you to consider as you move forward.

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