The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

How Dynatrace uses Site Reliability Guardian In each of these Dynatrace examples, insight is made in a production-like environment. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For example, a member-triggered event such as “ change in a profile’s maturity level” should have a much higher priority than a “ system diagnostic signal”. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For example, to address challenges like asynchronous communications or security and isolation in microservice architectures, organizations often introduce third-party libraries and frameworks like Hazelcast IMDG. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. Dynatrace news.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 222

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic. How to get started.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Understanding cold-start behavior is essential to tune your cloud applications cost or performance to meet your operational needs. Such anomalies can be caused by function cold-starts.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Here are some examples. Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Let’s examine a few examples of answer-driven automation using AI and context. DevOps automation example #2: Threat detection and response Let’s build on the previous example.

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DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 209

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. For example, a lot of our workflows are run around midnight UTC.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. Application usage and traffic. Application usage and traffic monitors the number of users accessing your system and informs many other metrics, including system uptime.

DevOps 189

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 189

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While developers edit files, a simple CLI command applies configurations to Dynatrace and, for example, automates the setup of a quality gate, including workflows and Site Reliability Guardians. Stay tuned for more examples and easy-to-adopt automations provided in our public Github project.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 179

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Below are a few examples within the five Well-Architected pillars for how Dynatrace empowers you: Dynatrace value within the AWS 5-pillars. Dynatrace as a managed AWS workload, and as an option, have the network traffic to Dynatrace run over PrivateLink so that traffic never leaves AWS. Stay tuned. Dynatrace and AWS.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 141

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

AV1 being a recent example. 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. However, not all members have access to the latest and greatest decoders. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

Monitoring 192

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 192

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Let’s look at an example related to Kubernetes. Example: Unintended side effects of introducing service mesh technology. In this example, a K8s platform operator installs a service mesh that uses a sidecar container as a proxy managing the communication with the various services of the cluster.

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Efficiency Best Practices DevOps Open Source 224

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, in Reloaded the video quality calculation was implemented inside the video encoder module. As an example, in Reloaded, the video encoding module bundles 5 steps: 1. The service also provides options that allow fine-tuning latency, throughput, etc., divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. To learn more about and pre- and post-execution scripts (with examples), check out Dynatrace Help. So stay tuned!

Monitoring 249

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 249

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Recent examples include: The Equifax data breach, in which the private records of 147.9 Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. What is web application security? million Americans, 15.2

Open Source 177

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 177

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s take our previous screenshot as an example.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 163

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity. Logs on Grail Log data is foundational for any IT analytics. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 176

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For example, you might want to define metrics that show the number of shopping carts, their dollar value, the number of items in those carts and a dimension that indicates whether the cart is active, abandoned, or purchased. The protocol is a simple line protocol, the exact same protocol that we used in the dynatrace_ingest example. <metric

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Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic 160

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. For example, StatsD doesn’t support dimensions and tagging. Stay tuned.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 247

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Good examples are: ETL processes for data archiving, reporting, data consolidation and so on. For example: shell> sudo setcap cap_sys_nice+ep <Path to you mysqld executable> shell> getcap./bin/mysqld./bin/mysqld Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. This is cool, isn’t it? bin/mysqld./bin/mysqld

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Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 44

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. For example, by tracking the value of RDB_last_save_time one can determine the last time an RDB file was saved.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

Redo Logs Starting from MySQL 8.0.30, the variable that should be tuned for optimizing the Redo Logs is innodb_redo_log_capacity , and we start with good news here: It’s dynamic! So you won’t have downtime if you need to tune this.

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Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 86

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to our pricing , traffic from this POP will be billed to Latin America. For example, the POP in Buenos Aires uses arba. If you'd like to request a POP in another location or a new feature please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements. In the case of Bogota, the POPs identifier is cobo.

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 60

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In the following example, we find out which of the special offers of our travel booking application is the most popular. In the following example, we’re querying all our Platinum users’ sessions to see which ones had JavaScript errors. Matches any single character. How many applications do you have? What’s next?

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Tuning Traffic Analytics Performance 132

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. For example, if we have two chunks with two and three frames and VMAF scores of [50, 60] and [80, 70, 90] respectively, the assembly step combines the scores into [50, 60, 80, 70, 90].

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud. Dynatrace Service backtrace helps you to understand the sequence of preceding service requests that ultimately triggered an action, for example, an incoming request to a specific Azure function.

Analytics 151

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 151

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time. Figure 3: Message traffic over time before and after event-sourcing was enabled.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

For example, a GraphQL enrichment processor can be provisioned to query GraphQL Services to enrich data in different pipelines; an Iceberg sink processor can be initialized multiple times to write data to different databases/tables with different schema. See example below. Each instance is configured to fit each use case.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

So far, traffic from Nigeria has been routed to Europe. For example, the POP in Tel Aviv uses ilta. If you'd like to request a POP in another location or a new feature please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements. According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps.

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Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110