The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

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

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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.”

Engineering 214

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 214

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. Mission-critical risks in banking Dynatrace brings a flexible, easy-to-implement, and vertically integrated technology solution to risk management for banks.

Analytics 189

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 189

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. Zuul , our primary edge gateway, assigns traffic to either cluster based on the experiment parameters.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By using OpenLLMetry and Dynatrace, anyone can get complete visibility into their system, including gen-AI parts with 5 minutes of work.” Dynatrace OneAgent® is perfectly capable of automatically injecting and tracing code-level information for many technologies, such as Java,NET, Golang, and NodeJS.

Open Source 247

Open Source Metrics Latency Java 247

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

It requires specialized talent, a new technology stack to manage and deploy models, an ample budget for rising compute costs, and end-to-end security. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues.

Cache 196

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 196

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. Make SLOs realistic.

Best Practices 212

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 212

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems. Dynatrace news. of Micrometer.

Metrics 196

Metrics Latency Java Cache 196

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 260

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 260

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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 246

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 246

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. Workflows are powered by a core platform technology of Dynatrace called the AutomationEngine.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 236

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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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

The challenge was that technology wasn't capable of processing real human conversation. The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. People interact with many different applications and systems at work.

Systems 110

Systems AWS Games Transportation 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. 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. So, what is ITOps?

Artificial Intelligence 191

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. And serverless support is a core capability.

Serverless 196

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 196

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 239

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 239

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. Bridges the business gap Good SLOs should also help bridge the gap between chief executive officers’ concerns and those of chief technology officers.

DevOps 203

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 203

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems. Dynatrace news. of Micrometer.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems. Dynatrace news. of Micrometer.

Metrics 130

Metrics Latency Java Cache 130

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Freedom to transfer assets without reliance on a central system. However, the Bitcoin-iteration of this technology also shows why blockchain isn’t a direct replacement for your enterprise databases. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains.

Blockchain 45

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 45

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems. Key among these trends is the emphasis on security and intelligent analytics.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. We’d like to get deeper insight into the host, the underlying operating system, and any third-party services used by our application.

Metrics 163

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 163

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

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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 167

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 167

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment. Use generative AI in conjunction with other technologies.

Strategy 212

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 212

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Another consequence of the recent discontinuation of support for 32-bit operating systems is the new default location of OneAgent for Windows.

Storage 144

Storage Latency Operating System Network 144

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The technology race never stops. High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. This increase is clearly correlated with the increased response latencies.

Infrastructure 189

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 189

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Freedom to transfer assets without reliance on a central system. However, the Bitcoin-iteration of this technology also shows why blockchain isn’t a direct replacement for your enterprise databases. To harden the system against advanced cyber attacks, it’s intentionally difficult to write to cryptocurrency blockchains.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Technology Technology Database 40

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Often, organizations resort to using separate tools for different parts of their technology stack. Performance monitoring Dynatrace can collect performance metrics from Nutanix clusters, including latency, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and network throughput.

Virtualization 182

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 182

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.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. These two technologies, alongside a host of other resiliency and chaos tools, made a massive difference: our reliability improved measurably as a result. We’re still early in our service mesh journey.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., 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

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?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

Additionally, the low coupling between sender and receiver applications allows for greater flexibility and scalability in the system. and MQTT 5 ensures that RabbitMQ can interoperate seamlessly within our growingly networked world, establishing itself as a multipurpose instrument in today’s vast technological landscape.

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130