The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries. After some consultation with our backend teams, we determined the most effective way to group these metrics were by UI screen.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 196

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. They simplify how you orchestrate everything across the diverse ecosystem of cloud services.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. To avoid this, start the SLO discussion early in the design process. However, another of the common SLO pitfalls is that many organizations assemble these metrics manually using disparate tools, which can take time from innovation.

DevOps 189

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 189

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. Performance. What does IT operations do?

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Let’s explore these benefits in more detail.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO. An agreement within the SLA that states specific metric, like uptime, response time, security, issue resolution, etc.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. It is much more than just IT support. Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

If products are not designed, keeping testability in mind, achieving continuous testing may become a distant dream. Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Not always!

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

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. The results are then evaluated using specific metrics to determine whether the hypothesis is valid.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams. What is observability?

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

DevOps 213

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 213

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Fault-tolerance. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

This methodology aims to improve software system reliability using several key categories such as availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. DevOps is a tactical approach to creating and delivering software designed to close the gap between development and IT operations. What is DevOps?

DevOps 191

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 191

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Real user monitoring works by injecting code into an application to capture metrics while the application is in use. How real user monitoring works.

Monitoring 174

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 174

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We will show how we are building a clean and efficient incremental processing solution (IPS) by using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg. As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technically, “performance” metrics are those relating to the responsiveness or latency of the app, including start up time. At Netflix the term “performance” usually encompasses both performance metrics (in the strict meaning) and memory metrics, and that’s how we’re using the term here. What do we mean by Performance?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency. The plot shows the results of the 2-pass encoding mode in both codecs.

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Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 154

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

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Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. are divided. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Data Placement.

Database 213

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked. As you can see, the latency remains relatively jitter-free despite large fluctuations in the cluster size. latency and stability) with Empire as well as security benefits.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

most recently ‘ Efficient lock-free durable sets ‘). higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM. FAST’20.

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Computation of more advanced metrics like a number of unique visitor or most frequent items is more challenging and requires a lot of resources if implemented straightforwardly. bits per unique value.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. Today, we are further expanding the choices available for designing and developing highly scalable and high performance apps.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Thus we’re fundamentally trading (de)-compression latency at access time for the ability to pack more data in memory.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78