The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. At every step, relevant stakeholders are informed, and key metrics are monitored, including service, device, operational, and business metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. Data visualization : how to present, explore and interpret observability data from serverless functions intuitively, clearly, and holistically? Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring. Network latency.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. Sean Roberts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

In addition, we are able to use Atlas Streaming to monitor and alert on some very high cardinality use-cases, such as metrics derived from free-form log data. Finally, we switched Telltale , our holistic application health monitoring system, from polling a metrics cache to using realtime Atlas Streaming.

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Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Monitoring SLOs and testing them in pre-production with intelligent quality gates to detect issues earlier in the development cycle.

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Comprehensive observability is also essential for digital experience monitoring (DEM). Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. Cloud environments present IT complexity challenges that don’t exist in on-premises data centers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? We are also excited to see the future of monitoring with more heterogeneous workloads?—?not

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. via built-in logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting and error classification. containers) in advance of demand to reduce startup latencies in Stratum.

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Monitoring SLOs and testing them in pre-production with intelligent quality gates to detect issues earlier in the development cycle.

Engineering 181

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 181

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. Monitoring Performance. Monitoring is also a huge component to managing a MongoDB deployment. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. The additional services you can now monitor out of the box with Dynatrace are listed below.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. The additional services you can now monitor out of the box with Dynatrace are listed below.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key elements, including: Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Hybrid Cloud Security Interoperability Compliance Must be considered carefully to facilitate smooth workload movement between environments while reducing latency. It should offer user-friendly operation. Capabilities for handling diverse data management functions are necessary.

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Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Configuring Grafana For our purposes, the Grafana datasource used in this PoC is also the Postgres data cluster that is generating the data to be monitored. pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. The collected data is aggregated and presented in a single view.

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 118

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Connected devices allow us to extend our senses to remote locations, such as a robot carrying out work on Mars or monitoring remote oil wells. Here's a few examples: IoT sensors in a factory can monitor and predict equipment failure before an accident. This is the exciting future for IoT, and it's closer than you think.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions. Opting for synchronous replication within distributed storage brings about reinforced consistency and integrity of data, but also bears higher expenses than other forms of replicating data.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Percona also offers some more great products for MongoDB, like Percona Backup for MongoDB , Percona Kubernetes Operator for MongoDB , and Percona Monitoring and Management.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 104

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., even lowered the latency by introducing a multi-headed device that collapses switches and memory controllers. Figure 2: Latency characteristics of memory technologies (source: Maruf et al.,

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability tools, such as metrics monitoring, log viewers, and tracing applications, are relatively small in scope. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency. Navigating common MongoDB upgrade challenges Even with a well-thought-out plan, MongoDB upgrades can present challenges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

the former for access to the Kafka clusters and the latter for service monitoring and alerts. A timeline of the transition from Spring KafkaListener to Alpakka-Kafka is presented here for a better understanding of the motivations for the transition. million elements. this is configurable through enable.auto.commit.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An organization’s response to an incident, whether we are talking about downtime, security breaches or cyber-attacks, or even prolonged latency and repeated errors, is critical to the continued success of the business and trust from the customer or end user. Incident identification begins with some form of monitoring or alerting mechanism.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

It is also important to monitor your server’s memory usage regularly to ensure that it is not being exhausted by the buffer pool. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. The answer does not consider the queue or latency of the sample, which could indicate a disk with issues. The answer could be better.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Jump to table of contents ↬ Analyzing User Data To effectively monitor and respond to our website’s performance, we need a robust process for collecting and analyzing this data. By transforming our raw data into interactive dashboards and reports , we can easily identify trends, pinpoint issues, and monitor improvements over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. We showcase our case studies, open-source tools in benchmarking, and how we ensure that AWS cloud services are serving our needs without compromising on tail latencies. Thursday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. We showcase our case studies, open-source tools in benchmarking, and how we ensure that AWS cloud services are serving our needs without compromising on tail latencies. Thursday?—?December

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. Here are the top ten tools you can run and present as a generic BPF observability dashboard, along with suggested visualizations: Tool Shows Visualization. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map.

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Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. It is recommended to lower this setting and monitor the impact on query performance and disk IO. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50. HotOS’19. Usability expectations.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52