The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. If you missed the talk, check it out here. This happened for us at Netflix. What is ConsoleMe?

AWS 251

AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 251

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing.

Serverless 216

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 216

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 in February, the theme was “Empowering the game changers.”. In addition to existing support for AWS Lambda , this expansion includes Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, as well as managed Kubernetes environments, messaging queues, and cloud databases across all major cloud providers.

Code 190

Code Software Software Serverless 190

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

In a Dynatrace Perform 2024 session, Kristof Renders, director of innovation services, discussed how a stronger FinOps strategy coupled with observability can make a significant difference in helping teams to keep spiraling infrastructure costs under control and manage cloud spending. Wrong-sized resources. Unnecessary data transfer.

Best Practices 241

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 241

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Echoing John Van Siclen’s sentiments from his Perform 2020 keynote, Steve cited Dynatrace customers as the inspiration and driving force for these innovations. “A Highlighting the company’s announcements from Perform 2020, Steve and a team of other Dynatrace product leaders introduced the audience to several of our latest innovations.

Performance 245

Performance Analytics Mobile Innovation 245

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. Pay Per Use.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AWS EKS for Integration and Production. When focusing on the LanguageController service we learn that it’s currently deployed in three pods across three EKS nodes across two AWS Availability Zones (AZ). 4 AWS EFS monitoring. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. NGINX as an API Gateway.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. Although the APIs were all managed by the Google API manager Apigee, the bank group was not getting consistent data types from the output.

Open Source 203

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner. After deployment, IT teams can also optimize the software and supporting hardware to ensure high performance.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 190

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 percentile latency is up to 11X better than Cassandra on AWS EC2 bare metal. So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right? cost reduction compared to running Cassandra, as they can achieve this performance with only 10% of the nodes.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

When American Family Insurance took the multicloud plunge, they turned to Dynatrace to automate Amazon Web Services (AWS) event ingestion, instrument compute and serverless cloud technologies, and create a single workflow for unified event management. Step 1: Automate AWS metrics ingestion with Dynatrace.

Cloud 175

Cloud Lambda Serverless AWS 175

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Therefore, it’s imperative that you ensure the continuous availability and high performance of your applications from your end users’ point of view. With Synthetic Monitoring, you can easily check the availability and performance of your applications as well as your APIs. New Google Cloud Platform locations.

Monitoring 186

Monitoring Cloud Azure AWS 186

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions.

Development 259

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 259

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning.

Latency 213

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 213

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Therefore, it’s imperative that you ensure the continuous availability and high performance of your applications from your end users’ point of view. With Synthetic Monitoring, you can easily check the availability and performance of your applications as well as your APIs. New Google Cloud Platform locations.

Monitoring 130

Monitoring Cloud Azure AWS 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Focused on delivering business value.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Focused on delivering business value.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. In this blog post, we will see how running databases on Kubernetes with Percona Operators can reduce your cloud bill when compared to using AWS RDS. We will not consider data transfer or backup costs in this article. hour or $46.08/day

Cloud 131

Cloud Storage AWS Database 131

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. of #PostgreSQL cloud deployments are run on AWS Click To Tweet.

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Dynatrace news. Connecting data siloes requires daunting integration endeavors.

Cloud 262

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 262

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Perform Post Incident Review (PIR)? —?Review Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. Unlike many of our tools Dispatch is not tightly bound to AWS, Dispatch does not use any AWS APIs at all!

AWS 204

AWS Open Source Google Speed 204

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. The introduction of containers brought everyone a similar but lighter weight mechanism.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Record all user interactions to evaluate applications’ performance. Dynatrace news. Service mesh. Auto-discovery.

Architecture 209

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 209

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands. This evaluation should also consider possible cost reductions and enhancements in performance that could be realized within the cloud environment.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . Kubernetes managed by cloud service providers ? .

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . Kubernetes managed by cloud service providers ? .

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130