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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. First, the fields can be coded by hand.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Applications are packaged into a single, lightweight container with their dependencies, typically including the application’s code, customizations, libraries, and runtime environment. Making container deployment simpler One of Kubernetes’ primary use cases is deploying containerized apps.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

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Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. Alerts triggered by our alerting platform. Different signals have different levels of importance to an application’s health.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Monitoring of page load time, page length, response time, and request code can also be observed with the traditional HTTP monitoring. Network latency. Network Latency. Connection time. Connection Time.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

This platform unlocks tremendous business value since product-oriented teams are now free to use the platform to experiment with different product offerings for our global audience, with little to no code changes required. This shape facilitates code reuse at the UI layer as well as the service layers. The world is constantly changing.