The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Dynatrace AutomationEngine workflows automate release validation using AWS Well-Architected pillars With Dynatrace, you can create workflows that automate various tasks based on events, schedules or Davis problem triggers. Workflows are powered by a core platform technology of Dynatrace called the AutomationEngine.

AWS 247

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 247

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. How do you ensure this is done in a way that is sympathetic to your application’s latency and load conditions? Enter streams of events, specifically the kinds of streams that technology like Kafka makes possible.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The browser receives a JavaScript bundle and static HTML in a payload, then it will render the DOM and add the listeners and events triggers for reactiveness. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. biosnoop Disk I/O per-event details table, offset heat map. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. but do have a json output mode.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. On a high-latency connection, this spells bad news. Put another-other way, this file is latency-bound, not bandwidth-bound.

Google 364

Google Media Latency Metrics 364

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Those events are then retrieved by the Team Service, which stores all allowed requests into an event registry and collapses that request history into the current state of a team upon receipt of a READ request. Publish request DENIED events to the message bus if any of these checks fail. Solution approach.

Architecture 68

Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Technically, ReportServerTempDB can be recreated by a script in the event of a disaster, however Reporting Services cannot start without ReportServerTempDB. Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. DBAs are familiar with restoring databases, rather than hunting for a script to recreate the database.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. biosnoop Disk I/O per-event details table, offset heat map 6. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

At Grid Dynamics, we recently faced a necessity to build an in-stream data processing system that aimed to crunch about 8 billion events daily providing fault-tolerance and strict transactioanlity i.e. none of these events can be lost or duplicated. The signature is initially initialized by the event ID. Lineage Tracking.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. Triggers are powerful mechanisms that react to events dynamically and in real time. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

The Tech Hollow , an OSS technology we released a few years ago, has been best described as a total high-density near cache : Total : The entire dataset is cached on each node?—?there there is no eviction policy, and there are no cache misses. Near : the cache exists in RAM on any instance which requires access to the dataset.

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I don’t get to Europe very often apart from ISO C++ standards meetings, but this spring I’ve been able to accept invitations for two English-language European events in the last week of April. Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm).

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache. com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While dynamic serving provides simplicity in implementation, it imposes significant time costs due to the computational resources required to generate the pages and the latency involved in serving these pages to users at distant locations. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Web browsers expose a global Performance Timeline API to inspect details about specific metrics/events that have happened during the page lifecycle. Another very common monitoring technique is to put event listeners on the page to capture events that might have monitoring value. Jump to table of contents ?.

Servers 93

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. Hence, downstream consumers have confidence to receive change events as they occur on a source.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. Hence, downstream consumers receive change events as they occur on a source.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. It doesn’t change very often and is generally not affected by user sessions.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. Luckily, we have Kafka events that are emitted each time a piece of data changes. The first step is to listen to those events and act accordingly. Keeping Everything Up To Date Indexing the data once isn’t enough.

Cache 240

Cache Database Servers Latency 240

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. Here’s a closer look at logs, metrics, and distributed traces.

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 220

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

So this November Shahin and I went to SC22 in Dallas TX together, as analysts, and started out in the media briefing event where the latest Top500 Report was revealed and discussed. Part of the reason is that I’ve always been interested in HPC, but haven’t had the opportunity to focus on it in the intervening years. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Statistics reveal that a 1% improvement in latency can lead to a 3% increase in viewer engagement, highlighting its significance in live content delivery.3.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52