Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

Serverless 213

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 221

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

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! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

AWS 195

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 195

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. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AWS EKS for Integration and Production. In order to filter these dashboards by tenant all they need is a Dynatrace Management Zone , which is based on meta data extracted by Dynatrace from e.g. k8s tags, container labels or process environment variables. 4 AWS EFS monitoring. NGINX as an API Gateway. REDIS for caching.

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. In this case, the bank group could not rely solely on Google Cloud Trace because they needed to collect traces and monitor the applications across all their systems.

Open Source 199

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 199

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Operating systems support. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x.

Operating System 234

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 234

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

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 ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 176

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. Regional traffic evacuations.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

ScaleGrid offers solutions that address these difficulties by simplifying administration processes in multi-cloud environments and enabling smooth integration among various cloud platforms. Integrating data sources and applications across multiple cloud providers brings about integration hurdles due to the different platforms involved.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2].

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

To address these challenges, the concept of "Shift Left" has gained prominence, emphasizing the early integration of compliance checks in the software development process. By integrating policy as code frameworks into CI/CD pipelines, compliance checks are seamlessly integrated into the development process.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

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. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Thus, whenever a master MySQL goes down (whether due to a MySQL crash, OS crash, system reboot, etc.), This ensures that the system continues to be available to the applications. Now, Pacemaker on the partition [(S1), (S2)] detects that there is no master available in the cluster and initiates a promotion process.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. Too often, those who already hold power, those who are least able to recognize the flaws in our current systems, are the ones who decide our technological future. More quotes.

Internet 126

Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction. This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. We should have access to raw events.

Open Source 148

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 148

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A security group in AWS for PostgreSQL with inbound rules allowing traffic on ports 5432 , 5433 , and 5434 for PostgreSQL. lsb_release -sc)_all.deb # Refresh local package database sudo apt update # Add Percona repository for PostgreSQL to our system's list of repositories. This tutorial will use Ubuntu 20.04 1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

Scalability 82

Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 82

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a fascinating read, shedding light on leveraging AWS snapshots’ capabilities to avoid initial data copy within the RDS environment. Then, we need a small downtime window just to move the traffic from the original instance to the upgraded one. Perform pg_upgrade Execute the pg_upgrade process. and a v15.4.

Database 74

Database Traffic C++ Servers 74