The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Percona stands for open source and keeps open source open for everyone. Open source software is impossible without the efforts of the community. Jo Lyshoel resolved the issue when some traffic was leaving the ServiceMash in Percona Operator for MongoDB. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Open Source 99

Open Source Traffic Virtualization Metrics 99

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

Traffic 168

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 168

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context.

Analytics 188

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 188

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh. Why do you need a service mesh?

Traffic 244

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 244

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 87

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 87

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces. In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity.

Cloud 224

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 224

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Availability 97

Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

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. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

Metrics 173

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 173

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. And why it matters. AWS Lambda.

Best Practices 214

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 214

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Java 236

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 236

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

Transportation 189

Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 189

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. While the Azure overview page in Dynatrace has long featured monitoring data detected by OneAgent, with additional metrics pulled from Azure Monitor and topology information from Azure Resource Graph, the overview page now gives you quick access to the newly added services, which are listed under Supporting services.

Azure 148

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 148

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Whether you need to make sure that your SQL database is listening on port 1433 even when there is no traffic, that your switch is responding to a ping or that your DNS server is up and running, the more devices you proactively monitor, the quicker you can react to unforeseen events.

Infrastructure 153

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 153

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Identifying which resources you can trim to reduce your monthly bill can be difficult, but looking at the right metrics will help you understand the application’s actual requirements. Configuration of the CPU metrics can be changed in the dashboard. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD. The following shows how to evaluate a deployment score based on metrics from Prometheus and Dynatrace. Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the past few years, Dynatrace has been a keen voice in the field of DevOps and provided enterprise knowledge and expertise in the shape of Keptn, the open-source, cloud-native, lifecycle orchestration control plane developed as a CNCF sandbox project.

Cloud 169

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 169

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. Monitoring is also a huge component to managing a MongoDB deployment.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 193

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 193

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. This format could be coded as a Prometheus Exporter.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events.

Analytics 198

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 198

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I can guess that maps pretty well to other platforms and other performance metrics. Energy source used by the data centre 4. Website traffic. The testing code is open source. They were testing mobile web apps on Android using Lighthouse scores. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97