The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Depending on the vendor or technology you work with, you may not be able to integrate existing tools with scripts for your tests.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 166

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Let me walk you through how I have built my Dynatrace Performance Insights Dashboard showing SLIs split by Test Name as well as SLIs for the specific technology and infrastructure: Enriching your load testing scripts with meta data allows building test context specific SLI-dashboards in Dynatrace. SimpleNodeJsService. test name, test step.

Engineering 185

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet it isn’t the tech that disrupts, it’s socio-economic change that creates conditions that a technology can exploit. These can be useful exercises, certainly to the business leaders who’ve got to find their customers or compete against rivals with slimmed down cost structures. Tech isn’t the catalyst , but it can be the beneficiary.

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Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. The people I need to build long-lived products on my-business-as-a-platform-as-a-service using emerging technologies don't fit any definition of standard procurement. At the same time, it isn't that surprising.

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Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle. Once the testing results are successful, application traffic is routed from blue to green. Response time for blue/green environment traffic.

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Systems Traffic DevOps Database 25