The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Systems Media Cache Open Source 236

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. Once teams solidify infrastructure and application performance, security is the subsequent priority.

Analytics 196

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 196

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. This telemetry data serves as the basis for establishing meaningful SLOs. SLOs aid decision making. SLOs promote automation. Reliability.

Software 259

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 259

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. It also shows how data observability relates to business outcomes as organizations embrace generative AI. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. In the screenshot below, a chaos engineering scenario introduced latency and resource stress on the “easytrade” demo application.

Engineering 189

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 189

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. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. In this example, unlike latency, the remaining three signals did not receive a “pass.”

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Speed Software Software Latency 202

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run. What is a Lambda serverless function? Return larger payload sizes.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 211

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure.

Virtualization 189

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 189

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. What is Microsoft Hyper-V? Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. Capacity planning Gain insights into resource usage trends and patterns over time.

Efficiency 210

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 210

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users. No infrastructure to maintain. Because cloud providers own and manage back-end infrastructure, local IT teams aren’t responsible for ongoing maintenance and upgrades. Optimizes resources.

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Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 162

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. Slave-2 uses an EBS data disk, and you can configure the amount of IOPS required for your cluster.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. What is ITOps?

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

This is achieved by using OpenAI services to compute numerical representations of text data that ease the computation of text similarity, called “embeddings,” for the documents as well as for the user input. So, whenever the latency of the model response degrades, or the model request returns an error, Davis AI automatically detects it.

Monitoring 161

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 161

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Providing at-a-glance data makes it possible for teams to quickly identify high-level issues and then drill down into the details. ” The Dynatrace Kubernetes app also provides process ownership data, ensuring information is directed to the right team and root causes are addressed. ” Data supports those declarations.

Engineering 221

Engineering DevOps Operating System Cloud 221

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol. For example, the artwork service is separate from the video metadata service, but we need the data from both in the detail key.

Latency 241

Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. Data Models. Graph Data Models.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Cloud complexity and data proliferation are two of the most significant challenges that IT teams are facing today. Computing environments are scaling to new heights, resulting in more data that makes pinpointing root causes and vulnerabilities even more challenging. But not all teams use the same observability data in the same way.

Development 258

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!).

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). In an age where the average data breach sets U.S.

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Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform.

Latency 191

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Data entering a stream. How does AWS Lambda work?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 177

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Access your cluster health data in Dynatrace Managed. This makes Dynatrace a critically important enablement platform.

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Software Software Programming Metrics 164

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Step 1 – Let Dynatrace analyze your infrastructure health in real-time. The Dynatrace all-in-one software intelligence platform gives your team real-time visibility into your underlying infrastructure —be it on bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or a hybrid solution. Dynatrace problem notification: Low disk space.

Systems 176

Systems DevOps Latency Azure 176

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Capacity determines how much content it can store in its cache and how efficiently it can serve that content to users simultaneously.The data center's capacity is dependent on factors such as CPU, memory, bandwidth, and the number of machines.‍CDN Performance‍The number and distribution of PoPs play a crucial role in performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

RTT is the duration in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a data packet to go from a starting point to a destination and return back to the original starting point. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. Decrease security risks.

Cloud 162

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 199

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS). million elements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Encoding drastically reduces the amount of video data that needs to be streamed to your device, by leveraging spatial and temporal redundancies that exist in a video. On a CPU, we leveraged oneDnn to further reduce latency. This is typically done by a conventional resampling filter, like Lanczos. Our filter can run on both CPU and GPU.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 300

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

Using real-time streaming data and analytics, manufacturers can optimize workflows in the moment, reducing bottlenecks and minimizing downtime. AI-driven quality control systems continuously analyze data from production lines to identify variations and anomalies as soon as they emerge.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Each private cloud setup has perks and benefits, especially for handling specific tasks.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Building data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines. Data pipeline initiatives are generally unfinished projects. In this post, we will discuss why you should avoid building data pipelines in first place.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63