The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

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. Dynatrace news. This makes Dynatrace a critically important enablement platform.

Software 166

Software Software Programming Metrics 166

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 223

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 223

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

DevOps automation example #3: Progressive delivery In software development and delivery, if an organization uses feature flags to control feature releases, the marriage of observability data and answer-driven automation becomes a formidable force. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management.

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DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 228

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Dynatrace news. A world of misunderstandings.

Automotive 277

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 277

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As of September 2020, we run 51 clusters on 1100 EC2 instances distributed across six AWS Regions ensuring that all our users can leverage the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to monitor their hybrid-multi cloud environments. Sydney, we have a disk write latency problem!

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 183

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. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 211

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 211

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On an abstract level, whenever you use MongoClient to connect, send, or receive a request, it internally uses predefined timeout options to decide how long the application will wait for an initial connection establishment or the response from the server for your request.

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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. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 93

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In response to this trend, open source communities birthed new companies like WSO2 (of course, industry giants like Google, IBM, Software AG, and Tibco are also competing for a piece of the API management cake). High latency or lack of responses. This increase is clearly correlated with the increased response latencies.

Infrastructure 193

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 193

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. High Level Design. Architecture. Fetching User Feed. Optimization.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

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. Let’s click “Apache Web Server apache” now. Let’s take our previous screenshot as an example.

Metrics 179

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. What is serverless computing? Pay Per Use.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 186

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. IPC clients are instantiated targeting that VIP or SVIP, and the Eureka client code handles the translation of that VIP to a set of IP and port pairs by fetching them from the Eureka server.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

Artificial Intelligence 186

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 186

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Monitoring typically provides a limited view of system data focused on individual metrics.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 229

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace is naturally suited to address these requirements with its automatic and AI-powered full-stack software intelligence platform. SAP server. Dynatrace news.

Latency 118

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 118

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Once the instance was available, the engineer would use a remote administration tool like RDP to login to the instance to install software and customize settings. We now have the software and instance configuration as code. The last piece of the puzzle was finding a way to package our software for installation on Windows.

DevOps 207

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. Why full-stack observability matters.

DevOps 238

DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Analytics 238

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing structure does not meet your budget goals. It ranks No.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

It means that if each event loop has a connection pool that connects to every origin (our name for backend) server, there would be a multiplication of event loops by servers by Zuul instances. For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections.

Traffic 170

Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a production system within Microsoft capturing around a quadrillion events and indexing 16 trillion search keys per day it would be interesting in its own right, but there’s a lot more to it than that. These two narratives of reference architecture and ingestion/indexing system are interwoven throughout the paper.

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Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104