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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

DZone

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

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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APRA CPS 230 compliance, explained

Dynatrace

Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability. The good news: even for latecomers to the compliance party, compliance is perfectly doable within the timeframe given the right tools and strategies. Organisations typically waste valuable time discussing and deciding the right strategy for hunting down the problem.

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What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace

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. A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain.

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