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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. 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.

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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. In this step, a pipeline picks our candidate change, deploys the service, makes it publicly discoverable, and redirects a small percentage of production traffic to this new service.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of digital business initiatives will require infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to include digital experience metrics in their business reporting. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

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).

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Optimizing CDN Architecture: Enhancing Performance and User Experience

IO River

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A ‍What is CDN Architecture?