The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

Traffic 339

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Dynatrace all-in-one software intelligence platform gives your team real-time visibility into your underlying infrastructure —be it on bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or a hybrid solution. Step 5 – xMatters triggers a runbook in Ansible to fix the disk latency. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

Systems 177

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

That’s because it does not require any pre-prepared schemas, and access to cold/hot storage is fully automatic and with zero latency. However, AI introduces new risks, such as increased software complexity, accelerated cyber-attacks, and potential regressions from rapid releases. This is inefficient and creates avoidable risks.

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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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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. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

Best Practices 228

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Traffic 173

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

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. The old ground-initiated command-and-control style systems aren’t going to work for these finer-grained systems.

Systems 125

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 179

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Siloed teams and multiple tools make it difficult to align on a single version of the truth for overall system health.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know. It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components.

Cache 141

Cache Strategy Latency Operating System 141

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Managing these risks involves using a range of technology solutions, from in-house, do-it-yourself solutions to third-party, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Maximize performance for high-frequency and low-latency trading strategies.

Analytics 206

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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

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 257

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

Development 267

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 267

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

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

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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 182

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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.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 181

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 181

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.

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Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 192

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. As a result, they fail to deliver a truly seamless and customer-centric experience that integrates our digital systems into our analog lives.

Systems 110

Systems AWS Games Transportation 110

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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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Bottleneck Analysis.

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Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Any organization recruits experienced testing agencies to comply with their specifications for software testing. Here is the list of software testing trends you need to look out for in 2021.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19. A general process.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

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 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213