article thumbnail

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

article thumbnail

Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency

Uber Engineering

Uber is committed to delivering safer and more reliable transportation across our global markets.

Big Data 109
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Software Testing Trends 2021 – What can we expect?

Testsigma

More than 20% of the goods will be made, packaged, transported, delivered without any external touch or effect. By 2024, Based on hyperautomation technology and modern operating procedures, companies can lower operating costs by 30 per cent. By 2025, the person who orders the product will first be the person who touches it.

article thumbnail

Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

The Netflix TechBlog

This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics). As you can imagine, this comes with very real storage costs.

Latency 296
article thumbnail

Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss).

article thumbnail

Netflix Drive

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix Drive relies on a data store that will be the persistent storage layer for assets, and a metadata store which will provide a relevant mapping from the file system hierarchy to the data store entities. The transfer mechanism for transport of bytes is a function of the data store. The major pieces, as shown in Fig.

Media 174
article thumbnail

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.