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

Percona

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Management of stateful applications Although stateless applications are frequently associated with Kubernetes, this flexible platform can also effectively handle stateful workloads, such as database management.

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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. Network latency. Database connectivity. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Database Connectivity. Present-day applications make more much use of the database.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

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.

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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. Causes such as an outlier instance, a canary or deployment by a dependent service, an unhealthy database, or just a spike in traffic. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Retrieve eligible SKUs from SKU Platform The SKU Platform consists of a rules engine, a database, and application logic. The database contains the plans, prices and offers. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors. The world is constantly changing.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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