The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning. We have several frameworks that periodically refresh large amounts of on-heap data to avoid external service calls for efficiency. No explicit tuning has been required to achieve these results.

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DZone

JANUARY 6, 2024

Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) stands as a potent technique capable of substantially enhancing the efficiency of your Java programs. By harnessing runtime profiling data, PGO empowers developers to fine-tune their code and apply optimizations that align with their application's real-world usage patterns.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. In addition, pySpark applications can be tuned to optimize performance and achieve better execution time, scalability, and resource utilization.

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Big Data Code Tuning Open Source 161

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Adding AIOps to automation processes makes the volume of data that applications and multicloud environments generate much less overwhelming.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 187

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the previous installments of this series, we introduced Psyberg and delved into its core operational modes: Stateless and Stateful Data Processing. We’ll return to the sample customer lifecycle: Processing Requirement : Keep track of the end-of-hour state of accounts, e.g., Active/Upgraded/Downgraded/Canceled.

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Tuning Processing C++ Efficiency 244

Dynatrace

JANUARY 30, 2024

You don’t really gain the efficiencies or the objectives that you need to be [gaining].” Johnson also shared how his team is using AI to automate certain talent management processes, such as expediting applicant-job matching and aligning training and certification offerings with workforce skill gaps. Download now!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns. Communication methods.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 211

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

.” While Kubernetes’ usability and ubiquity make it the ideal environment for cloud-based production tasks, operational oversight and resource management challenges can frustrate DevOps efforts to drive efficiency. “The welcome screen gives you a high-level overview of what’s happening,” Mayr said.

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Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 224

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, the Parliament of India released the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , which regulates the processing of digital personal data in India and recognizes the right of individuals to protect their data in India. Dynatrace is already supported in 17 local regions on three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).

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AWS Azure Tuning Analytics 237

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

People gain efficiencies. Tune in to the full episode for more insights from Ross Nodurft, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based People are deciding to step up and use FedRAMP High to protect the systems that govern those mission sets. we think this is net good. They gain security.”

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Government Innovation Artificial Intelligence Small Business 170

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The checkpoint process flushes the data into the data files. PostgreSQL writes changes into WAL.

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Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 58

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 30, 2020

In an effort to effectively and efficiently produce this content we are looking to improve and automate many areas of the production process. Production: Enable content creation from script to screen that optimizes the production process for efficiency and transparency.

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Engineering Entertainment Logistics Innovation 238

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. However, scaling up software development requires more tools along the software product lifecycle, which must be configured promptly and efficiently. The screenshot below displays such a configuration.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 188

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Check them out. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Check them out. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The implication resulting from exceeding the Server Selection Timeout limit can prove damaging for MongoDB’s efficiency, leading to a selection error which is about time-out exceeding the allowed limits. x+ in Java). Modifying this setting does affect performance. Careful consideration must be given before making changes.

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Java Network Servers Database 130

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. Reintroduced a limit of 100,000 process group instances (last 72h) running on hosts presented on the “Deployment status” page for OneAgents. (APM-370529).

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Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 191

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Getting security right in a multi-cloud setup means doing a few key things.

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Upgrading to the newest release of MongoDB is the key to unlocking its full potential, but it’s not as simple as clicking a button; it requires meticulous planning, precise execution, and a deep understanding of the upgrade process. x: Live resharding of databases for uninterrupted sharded key changes.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 90

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended as eBPF for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. What is BPF?

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. Labels we don’t need. Jolly good!

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 176

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Consolidate workloads: In the past, you might have wanted to split out additional replicas or cluster nodes to process specific types of workloads, such as those related to reporting.

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Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 85

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 198

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Like most IT professionals, Harikrishnan and the Parker team’s cybersecurity engineer Tom Hood have multiple requirements to manage, from implementing digital transformation and ensuring operational efficiency to securing IT systems. Efficiency. Dynatrace raised, then resolved alerts automatically through the platform.

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Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 170

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability challenges in serverless applications can be therefore categorized into: Data collection : how to collect metrics, logs and traces from serverless functions efficiently, reliably, and consistently? Understanding cold-start behavior is essential to tune your cloud applications cost or performance to meet your operational needs.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most organizations are embracing DevSecOps, a term that covers processes and tooling enabling security to be integrated into the application development life cycle rather than treated as a separate process. Customers will increasingly prioritize AI efficiency and education to tackle legal and ethical concerns.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We currently process tens of millions of log records every minute and analyze these events to perform in-house custom detections. Once ingested, findings are then enriched and processed with additional metadata collected from Netflix’s internal data sources. One major improvement was a direct time savings for our detection squad.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Scalability 196

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

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Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 97

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

As more organizations respond to the pressure to release better software faster, there is an increasing need to build quality gates into every stage of BizDevOps processes , from early development to deployment. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 181

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.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Energy efficiency and carbon footprint outshine x86 architectures The first clear benefit of ARM in the enterprise IT landscape is energy efficiency.

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Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 264

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

COBOL applications must be processed on expensive general processors, while Java applications are eligible to run on IBM Z specialty processors such as zIIPs. Processing capacity associated with zIIPs isn’t subject to license costs and maintenance fees. This insight lays the required foundation for our modernization process.”

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Java Government Database Programming 178

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. there is no other way if the business problems need to be solved in real-time.

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Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Finally, upon doing stratified k-fold cross-validation, we carry out an efficient grid search to tune the hyper-parameters in each of the aforementioned models for the binary classification task and only report the performance metrics for the optimally tuned hyper-parameters.

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C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272