The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

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 Cloud 213

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. This is called a frequent issue. That’s another big cultural change!

Best Practices 163

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 163

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 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. Scalability. Monitoring. This is known as a cold start.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Data Pipeline using Delta In the following sections, we are going to describe the Delta-Connector that connects to a datastore and publishes CDC events to the Transport Layer, which is a real-time data transportation infrastructure routing CDC events to Kafka topics. Please stay tuned.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

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

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Watch webinar now! Networking.

Open Source 301

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context.

Analytics 185

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 185

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

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 219

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 219

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

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. 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. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. Regional traffic evacuations.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Do we have the ability (process, frameworks, tooling) to quickly deploy new services and underlying IT infrastructure and if we do, do we know that we are not disrupting our end users? Automatic collection of the entire set of services that publish metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Stay tuned. Dynatrace and AWS.

AWS 144

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 144

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Host performance is tracked via high-level health metrics with details for each host (these appear on your home dashboard by default).

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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. So stay tuned! HTTP monitor locations use the same set of IP addresses as the browser monitoring locations.

Monitoring 256

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 256

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version. This enables you to easily make use of the more than 2,000 out of the box metrics provided by Dynatrace as well as bringing in your custom metrics and data ingest. What’s next.

Cloud 167

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 167

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Modern observability tools provide many metrics, but which ones are really important for your business?

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. The request provides the source and the derivative whose quality is to be computed and requests that the VQS provides quality scores using VMAF, PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics. Assembly for two of the metrics (e.g.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Mesh provides a drag-and-drop, self-service user interface for exploring sources and creating pipelines so that users can focus on delivering business value without having to worry about managing and scaling complex data streaming infrastructure. Please stay tuned! We will have follow up blog posts on these topics in future.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Particular Software

APRIL 9, 2018

While you probably wouldn't expect this from a software infrastructure company, we opened a theme park! This infrastructure monitoring helps us understand whether our theme park has the infrastructure it needs to operate. Infrastructure monitoring is also common in the software industry. Welcome to Particular World.

Systems 40

Systems Infrastructure Monitoring Tuning 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Additionally, DebugBar can monitor network traffic, inspect CSS elements and evaluate your JavaScript code. Aside from infrastructure monitoring, New Relic can collect user data and provide valuable analysis to assist you in creating a better user experience.

Development 57

Development Open Source Java AWS 57