The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs.

AWS 218

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 218

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

We will also discuss related configuration variables to consider that can impact these KPIs, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of your MySQL server’s performance and efficiency. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency? Lost efficiency.

DevOps 220

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 220

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Which one takes more processing power to parse and display? There has got to be a balance between the propagation and duplicative storage as far as the savings that would be realized by the efficiency of saving requests. Website traffic. There are two images sitting on a server, a large one and a small one. The large one.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. To address these challenges, the concept of "Shift Left" has gained prominence, emphasizing the early integration of compliance checks in the software development process.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. All of this while cutting their datawarehouse cost by 80%.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. What this chart summarizes is that.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Latency 177

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 177

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Thus making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking a successful implementation of their multi-cloud strategy.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads. One approach is to use an integrated monitoring system to efficiently gather bulk metrics and maintain the long term archive as part of the same infrastructure.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 215

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 222

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Failover testing: If you have a high availability setup or a secondary data center, test to ensure the failover process switches over to the backup database server. This helps minimize downtime.

Database 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 124

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 124

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 114

Storage Network Open Source Latency 114

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

Analytics 186

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 186

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93