The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Utilizing cloned real traffic, we can exercise the diversity of inputs from a wide range of devices and device application software versions in production. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

Best Practices 228

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. But developers need code-level visibility and code-level data.” That’s not how I envision code-level observability,” Laifenfeld said. KubeCon North America is this week.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379> cmdstat_append:calls=797,usec=4480,usec_per_call=5.62

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. Local development tools including specialized test runners, code generators, and a command line interface. Productivity?—?Local Delivery?—?A

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Lambda functions allow teams to run code for applications, back-end services, streaming processing, or any layer of the stack with less overhead. Return larger payload sizes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Therefore, they experience how the application code functions and how the application operations depend on the underlying hardware resources and the operating system managed by Hyper-V. Observability challenges with Hyper-V End-users don’t have direct interaction with Hyper-V.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Code development also benefits from a serverless approach. Then, they can apply DevSecOps best practices to fully test new code and see what breaks without affecting current operations. Reduced latency. Serverless architecture makes it possible to host code anywhere, rather than relying on an origin server.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 257

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. In addition, the workflow can be easily extended to any custom demands, for example, integration with tools that support your software product lifecycle.

DevOps 224

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 224

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Managing these risks involves using a range of technology solutions, from in-house, do-it-yourself solutions to third-party, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. The Dynatrace platform allows security teams to automate continuous discovery, proactively detect anomalies, and optimize across the software lifecycle.

Analytics 206

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. This event-driven automation triggers the action of sending the discount code only when the customer abandons the cart abandonment, minimizing revenue loss and increasing conversion rates.

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DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 225

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

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. We can determine A/B test membership in either device application or backend code and selectively invoke new code paths and services.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 181

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 181

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. Using agile methodologies, developers are constantly updating code and integrating it into production services.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 183

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19. A general process.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is best thought of as a practical approach to speeding up new software development and delivery.

DevOps 191

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 191

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This is why the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is recognized as a market leader not only for monitoring coverage, but also, very importantly, for providing the shortest time-to-value. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. See details below.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. and GoLang to reduce the necessary boilerplate code to a minimum. Less visibility into the internal state and behavior of the functions.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. to the broader community.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Any organization recruits experienced testing agencies to comply with their specifications for software testing. Here is the list of software testing trends you need to look out for in 2021.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week. This creates latency when they need to restart. How does serverless computing tackle inefficiencies?

Serverless 245

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Once the instance was available, the engineer would use a remote administration tool like RDP to login to the instance to install software and customize settings. We now have the software and instance configuration as code. This means changes can be tracked and reviewed like any other code change.

DevOps 207

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. Integrate run-time application security into DevSecOps.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. With limited visibility, teams have a narrow understanding of how those decisions impact other software components and vice-versa. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

Artificial Intelligence 183

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 183

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

IPC clients are instantiated targeting that VIP or SVIP, and the Eureka client code handles the translation of that VIP to a set of IP and port pairs by fetching them from the Eureka server. There is a downside to fetching this data on-demand: this adds latency to the first request to a cluster.

Traffic 220

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Organizations commonly use SLOs in production environments to ensure released code stays within error budgets. Error budgets allow development teams to make informed decisions between new development vs operations and polishing existing software. Generally, SLOs are important because they: Improve software quality.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. link] When the protobuf compiler (protoc) compiles this message definition, it creates the code in the language of your choice (Java in our example). Let’s explore this code sample in more detail. (1)

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