The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. 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.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

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. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

Software 165

Software Software Programming Metrics 165

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Observability data provides a treasure trove of performance, stability, and user experience metrics encompassing error rates, response times, and user engagement. With swift precision, an answer-driven automation solution that uses causal AI can transform these metrics into invaluable insights. But it doesn’t stop there.

DevOps 220

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 220

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. When using a single CDN, the organization is dependent on the CDN provider’s geographical coverage and server infrastructure.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Expert Tip.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. When using a single CDN, the organization is dependent on the CDN provider’s geographical coverage and server infrastructure.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. Every opportunity for delay due to more work than the best case or more time waiting than the best case increases the latency and they all add up and create a long tail. Mu is the mean of each component, the latency.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Obviously, without the need to have to rent or buy physical servers, it can be more cost-effective for organizations to forego the traditional route of having to manage their physical infrastructure and only pay for the time and memory utilized to run your code/applications. The time it takes between an action and a response is latency.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Moreover, just like an A/B test, we’ll be collecting metrics while the experiment is underway and performing statistical analysis at the end to interpret the results. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This also includes latency, or the time it takes for data or a request to get through a network. It is also one of the four golden signals of monitoring, which also includes traffic, error, and saturation. The metrics measured could be monitoring HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests, response codes, user metrics, etc.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction. What happens if you have several monitoring systems and they disagree on a critical metric like CPU load or Network throughput?

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Baselines And Budgets Remain Vital.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. For systems that are latency sensitive, creating two independent ways to succeed is an important technique for greatly reducing the 99th percentile latency.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. For systems that are latency sensitive, creating two independent ways to succeed is an important technique for greatly reducing the 99th percentile latency.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte ( TTFB ) among others, then compare data across a wide section of sites to see how different ways to slice those sites up compare. Latency matters. First Input Delay ( FID ).

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

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. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

Traffic 252

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can also be used to gather metrics. Monitoring Both products can be monitored with a variety of monitoring tools.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6]. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Performance budgets keep everyone on the same.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68