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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 206

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

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.

Best Practices 225

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run. What is a Lambda serverless function? Return larger payload sizes. How does Dynatrace help?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 218

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

” The Dynatrace Kubernetes app also provides process ownership data, ensuring information is directed to the right team and root causes are addressed. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.” “We can see that one node has memory pressure. It’s using 1.5

Engineering 228

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 228

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing ! The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. This is ideal for delivering images of any size with low latency regardless of where the user is located. No commitment: Scale up and down anytime and only pay for the images processed.

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Processing Storage Latency Servers 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Full stack observability with the Dynatrace Hyper-V extension Use Dynatrace for deeper insights into the Microsoft ecosystem with the new Hyper-V extension; it provides crucial virtualization layer characteristics for Windows infrastructure observability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering 256

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 256

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. The validation process is automated based on events that occur, while the objectives’ configuration, which is validated by the Site Reliability Guardian , is stored in a separate file.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 191

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Advanced AI applications using OpenAI services don’t just forward user input to OpenAI models; they also require client-side pre- and post-processing. It shows critical SLOs for latency and availability, as well as the most important OpenAI generative AI service metrics, such as response time, error count, and the overall number of requests.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 165

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. What is ITOps?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 204

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

DZone

AUGUST 11, 2022

They address the primary use cases for the organization’s products or support its underlying vital infrastructures, such as a product search service for an e-commerce site, a content posting service for a social media app, or a payment processing framework. Tier 1 services are critical to a company’s profitability.

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Social Media Media Latency Website 130

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. System Components. Fetching User Feed. Streaming Data Model.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments. These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 249

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering 178

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 178

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Real-time file processing, for quickly indexing files, processing logs, and validating content.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

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

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. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization in five easy steps. Step 1 – Let Dynatrace analyze your infrastructure health in real-time. Step 5 – xMatters triggers a runbook in Ansible to fix the disk latency.

Systems 176

Systems DevOps Latency Azure 176

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management. Dynatrace enables teams to specify SLOs, such as latency, uptime, availability, and more. A breakpoint won’t stop your program but will collect local variables, stack trace, process metrics, etc., The DevOps people looking end-to-end.

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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.

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Software Software Programming Metrics 165

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. What is cloud migration?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. So why mess with it?

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? As defined by Gartner , service-level objectives are an agreed-upon target within an SLA that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to provide the best opportunity for customer success.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 193

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A distinct, NN-based, video processing block can evolve independently, be used beyond video downscaling and be combined with different codecs. On a CPU, we leveraged oneDnn to further reduce latency. Millions of devices that support Netflix streaming automatically benefit from this solution. Our filter can run on both CPU and GPU.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

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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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 205

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Satellites are going to have to take responsibility for more decisions on their own, without waiting for commands from a ground station, and they’re going to have to do more onboard processing of data to make better use of the limited downlink bandwidth. Formation flying, and formation processing. Computing on the edge with cote.

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

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. Wednesday?—?December

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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. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

To address security requirements or the need for tight integration with existing infrastructure, many organizations need to host their streaming analytics platform on-premises. This gives users all of the capabilities of the ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service with complete infrastructure control.

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IoT Azure Analytics Healthcare 52