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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The goal of this blog post is to highlight the investment areas for this vision and the challenges we are facing today. Depending on the type of client, we need to determine the right strategy to sample consumer devices, and provide a system that can enable various client engineering teams to look for their signals.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Furthermore, with this update you can: Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. On the overview page you’ll find the metrics aggregated across all detected pools.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

To effectively address such warning signs, organizations need to focus on putting observability data into context—mapping and visualizing relationships and dependencies within all collected telemetry data—not only traces, metrics, and logs. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. And why it matters. AWS Lambda. AWS monitoring best practices. Watch demo now!

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Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. The ALR mechanism also ensures maximum stability when the actual load exceeds the capacity of the cluster (though a statistically valid set of requests is still captured for analysis by the Dynatrace Davis AI causation engine ). Impact on disk space.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They not only contributed code but also reported issues, helped users on the forum, and wrote blog posts on the Community website. Jo Lyshoel resolved the issue when some traffic was leaving the ServiceMash in Percona Operator for MongoDB. Metrics can be submitted from that hook without further changes to the shared Progress class.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. Now – this is not the end of the blog. Why Devs – and Immigrants to Qatar – Love Dynatrace!

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? ” The short answer is, “ It depends.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service. We will talk more about how we used these metrics in the sections to follow.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. All this comes with the Dynatrace zero-configuration approach, automatic service detection, continuous data capture in context, and answers, not just data, from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine, making you ready for large-scale Azure deployments. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB. Azure DB for MySQL.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. Online Boutique has been launched into a Kubernetes cluster that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Network metrics for all containerized environments. calls to services that are outside the K8s environment).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

With this approach, the support team get flooded with alerts and must implement complex alert de-duplication engines to avoid spam. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. The Core Web Vitals Metrics Generally, I approve of the Core Web Vitals metrics themselves ( Largest Contentful Paint , First Input Delay , Cumulative Layout Shift , and the nascent Interaction to Next Paint ).

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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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Now, Dynatrace has the ability to turn numerical values from logs into metrics, which unlocks AI-powered answers, context, and automation for your apps and infrastructure, at scale. Whatever your use case, when log data reflects changes in your infrastructure or business metrics, you need to extract the metrics and monitor them.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. This is what this blog is all about. Its a detailed tutorial blog that explains how you can make the first steps towards SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. For this blog I will be using the same Node.js

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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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In this blog, we will dive into the transformative power of answer-driven automation. Imagine having an AI engine that comprehends the complete context of the transaction and intelligently determines whether to send a discount code—and which one to send. Full contextual awareness helps the AI engine make informed decisions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs face ever more challenging situations as environment complexity increases, applications scale up, and organizations grow: Growing dependency graphs result in blind spots and the inability to correlate performance metrics with user experience.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. Dynatrace news. Tell me more!

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Analytics 261

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way. Personalized Experience Refresh Netflix Recommendation engine continuously refreshes recommendations for every member. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

If you don’t keep many eyes on different metrics 24 / 7, odds are high that a disaster is imminent. #1 4 Better Search Engine Ranking Search engines are a very appreciated development, but there are also some flipsides from a business perspective. You can’t drive with closed eyes, and the same is true for performance monitoring.

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. As the subject of this blog post suggests, this all comes down to proper capacity planning. Does your traffic increase come with updated code changes that change the queries?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. As you might know, we recently simplified observability for all custom metrics by making it possible to ingest hundreds of custom data sources into Dynatrace. Events and alerts.

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