The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

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. Regional traffic evacuations. Infrastructure change events. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. The ultimate goal of each of these reviews is to identify gaps, quantify risk, and develop recommendations for improving the team, processes, and architecture with each of the five pillars.

AWS 146

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 146

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. Lead time for changes helps teams understand how effective their processes are.

DevOps 206

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

Analytics 191

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

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.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

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 259

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 259

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

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. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Telegraf is a plugin-based system for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Stay tuned.

Open Source 258

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 258

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Heading over to `Infrastructure` / `Hosts` in your dashboard, you should now have an entry for the host where you installed OneAgent. This is not just a list of running processes and their CPU and memory details (“top” came to mind), but OneAgent can instrument (almost) any application on your system—automatically.

Metrics 176

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. Dynatrace automatically detects processes and services and will observe their behaviour. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. The change was applied after the vertical yellow line.

Best Practices 164

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 164

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. The whole process is nearly real-time, meaning as soon as the changes are committed to the datastore, the search indexes are updated.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

With our comprehensive and actionable articles, you’ll gain the knowledge and insights needed to navigate each stage of the development process with confidence. Stay tuned to learn how to lay the foundation for a successful clone app that converts readers into leads. What do you aim to achieve with your UberEats clone?

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. CDC and data source Change data capture or CDC , is a semantic for processing changes in a source for the purpose of replicating those changes to a sink.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Dynatrace Cloud Automation leverages the AI and automation capabilities of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to enhance development, DevOps, and SRE teams’ processes with: Automated SLO validation and quality gates , to ensure high-quality code moves smoothly through the delivery pipeline and does not violate error budgets in production.

Cloud 171

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 171

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. “How does the new process compare to the old one exactly?” exe file and one for the *.msi

Storage 116

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 116

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. Here is a step-by-step description of the processes involved: 1. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. A simplified trace graph from Nirvana.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

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

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . With DevSecOps processes having shifted security testing “left”, will the teams have enough time to manually analyze, assess, and manage risks based on sampled or scheduled scan results?

Cloud 294

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. Scale and automate SRE into your delivery processes with Dynatrace. Now let’s dive deeper into how Dynatrace can be used to support your Site Reliability Engineering process. Scale Site Reliability Engineering with SLOs in Dynatrace.

Metrics 154

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 154

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. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?”

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

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

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 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

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