The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

Hardware 363

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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. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box.

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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. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 132

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. Watch our Chaos Engineering talk from AWS Reinvent to learn more about Sticky Canaries.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

We’re excited to announce Dynatrace has been named as a select launch partner for a newly launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering, Amazon ECS Anywhere. This new extension allows customers to deploy native Amazon ECS tasks in any target environment including traditional AWS managed infrastructure and now customer-managed infrastructure.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Developers don’t have to put in additional time to fine-tuning the system, or rely on other teams for support, as it’s done automatically with the cloud provider. Monitoring. Monitoring Serverless Applications.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With that, we could make use of the full set of OpenTelemetry’s features to instrument and monitor our applications in the Dynatrace back end, including traces with spans and metrics. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name? Dynatrace news. In short, no.

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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.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

Additionally, the low coupling between sender and receiver applications allows for greater flexibility and scalability in the system. While ensuring that messages are durable brings several advantages, it’s important to note that it doesn’t significantly degrade performance regarding throughput or latency.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. Integrating Existing Systems When selecting a tool for integrating a hybrid cloud, evaluating several key aspects is important. The tool must be compatible with your current systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? We are also excited to see the future of monitoring with more heterogeneous workloads?—?not

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We use Keystone as it is easy to use, reliable, scalable, and provides aggregation of facts from different cloud regions into a single AWS region. How do we monitor the quality of data? If you want to know more about how we monitor data quality in Axion, you can check our spark summit talk and this podcast.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network. Cloudburst monitors request and service rates (storing metrics in Anna).

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

Dynatrace monitors your full stack and offers you thousands of metrics with almost zero configuration. Just a single OneAgent per host is required to collect all relevant monitoring data, all the way down to specific lines of code. However, there are certain situations where you’d like to extend our Dynatrace out-of-the-box monitoring.

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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. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. In a traditional IT environment, organizations may have had a team of system administrators managing complex systems. Monitoring. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Jump to table of contents ↬ Analyzing User Data To effectively monitor and respond to our website’s performance, we need a robust process for collecting and analyzing this data. By transforming our raw data into interactive dashboards and reports , we can easily identify trends, pinpoint issues, and monitor improvements over time.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A cloud-wide monitoring tool, Atlas, showed a high rate of paging for the larger file uploads: The blue is pageins (page ins). 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.81 100.00 ^C.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Inconsistent performance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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