The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Under the hood, Titus is powered by Kubernetes , but it provides a thick layer of enhancements over off-the-shelf Kubernetes, to make it more observable , secure , scalable , and cost-efficient. The back-end auto-scales the number of instances used to back your service based on traffic.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

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. Automate monitoring tasks.

Best Practices 216

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 216

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Application version adoption over time for a staged rollout This chart represents a counter metric, which exhibits version adoption over the duration of a staged rollout.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

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Java Traffic Education Storage 195

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

The world’s most scalable, automatic distributed tracing pushes the boundary once again with enhanced Adaptive Load Management. Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Dynatrace news. Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace CTO. Impact on disk space.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 156

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. The metrics are great for anyone in operations and capacity planning.

Java 226

Java Traffic Government Code 226

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform. Mantis is our go-to platform for processing operational data at Netflix.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This test helps to measure the speed, scalability, reliability, and stability of software under varying loads, thus it ensures stable performance. This test helps to ensure that the application performs as expected irrespective of the conditions like fluctuating network, bandwidth availability, or traffic load.

Performance Testing 127

Performance Testing Testing Performance Latency 127

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

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

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. Wednesday?—?December We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

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. Wednesday?—?December We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance. This scalability ensures that your applications can grow in tandem with your business or user demands, maintaining a high level of operational efficiency.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Scalability. The primary challenge being not able to access the underlying infrastructure metrics. In serverless environments, monitoring can be harder to accomplish, as you lose the visibility and control of the back-end performance metrics of your applications. Monitoring. This is known as a cold start.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Only 20% of YouTube’s traffic is from the United States. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love you even more. Don't miss them.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Cross Region Read Replicas also make it even easier for our global customers to scale database deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic, globally disperse applications.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Built-in correlation, either as a standalone solution or integrated with other platforms –Solutions should offer unique correlations to integrate metrics with cloud platforms, APM solutions, and similar products to provide detailed insights into the actual source of a detected performance or availability problem.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Built-in correlation, either as a standalone solution or integrated with other platforms –Solutions should offer unique correlations to integrate metrics with cloud platforms, APM solutions, and similar products to provide detailed insights into the actual source of a detected performance or availability problem.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Software 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. What is Docker?

Open Source 306

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 306

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Analytics 26

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

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 175

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 175

High Scalability

APRIL 10, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Analytics 26

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Real user monitoring limitations.

Best Practices 179

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 179

High Scalability

MAY 14, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Analytics 24

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 24

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Identify key performance metrics specific to an organization.

Cloud 226

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 226

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

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. Wednesday?—?December We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

High Scalability

JUNE 27, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Metrics 23

Metrics Java Engineering Servers 23

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. Observability data provides a treasure trove of performance, stability, and user experience metrics encompassing error rates, response times, and user engagement.

DevOps 224

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 224

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

Traffic 170

Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

High Scalability

JULY 10, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Metrics 21

Metrics Java Engineering Servers 21

High Scalability

JULY 19, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 20, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 6, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21