The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring is the practice of using tools and technologies to gather and evaluate metrics as a customer navigates an application to determine the quality of a user’s interaction with its digital touchpoints. What is digital experience monitoring? One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

By enhancing IAM (Identity Access Management), CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) capabilities, these technologies bolster overall cloud security measures. Endpoint security plays a crucial role alongside other techniques such as network security tools for comprehensive cloud monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation and drive agility. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Dynatrace news. How to get started.

Traffic 239

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 239

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross data-center traffic.

Java 242

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 242

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Innovation is at the heart of success, and no one knows that more than our winner of the LATAM Cloud Innovation Award – Netjer Networks. Congratulations to all the team at DXC Technology for being awarded our Service of the Year Award after continually demonstrating their commitment, expertise, and growth over the last year.

Games 217

Games Innovation Energy Cloud 217

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 218

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 218

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To train these parameters as well as fine-tune the pretrained image-text model weights, we leverage in-house datasets that pair shots of varying durations with rich textual descriptions of their content. The embedding computation is based on a large neural network model and has to be run on GPUs for optimal throughput.

Media 225

Media Social Media Tuning Efficiency 225

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Please stay tuned!

Metrics 186

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 186

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. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit.

Metrics 179

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

As in the case of OneAgent for other Linux platforms, each of these modules is instrumented in the respective technology stack automatically, so there’s no need for any additional configuration. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 134

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 134

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. Stay tuned. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

AWS 147

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 147

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. You can compare all of their license costs in their Oracle Technology Global Price List. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Compare Ease of Use.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. A Note on Data Locality.

Best Practices 133

Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. So, the organization sought to reduce complexity and raise production quality. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Blast radius.

Engineering 234

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 234

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Some KPIs we monitor closely include: Median and tail latencies Error rates Logs Resource utilization–CPU, network traffic, memory, disk Device QoE (Quality of Experience) metrics Streaming health metrics We started small, with tiny customer allocations for hour-long experiments. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

Infrastructure monitoring includes automatic visibility, problem detection, and smart alerting across virtual networks, virtual infrastructure, and container orchestration. Backing services like Kafka and ActiveMQ are perfect examples—both technologies are queueing services that are written in Java and can be monitored via JMX.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Metrics Java Virtualization 151

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the time of this publication it may not be available there yet, but please stay tuned. Please stay tuned for updates on the location of the Ansible Galaxy collection for OneAgent. Stay tuned for associated announcements about further increments and general availability releases.

Tuning 130

Tuning Monitoring Availability Architecture 130

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. OneAgent is deployed on a Linux host where some of the standard folders are mapped from network drives while some are provisioned as local drives with limited storage. Stay tuned for upcoming news about these changes. See details below. Smaller OneAgent installer size.

Storage 151

Storage Latency Operating System Network 151

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Most of my discussions begin with an explanation of how the Dynatrace platform works, including our OneAgent technology that automatically instruments and discovers application and infrastructure environments, and results in the entity map or ‘Smartscape’. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 235

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 235

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos. The service also provides options that allow fine-tuning latency, throughput, etc., depending on the use case.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Incident management and wrangling with remediation tools used to dominate the time of the IT staff at Parker Hannifin (Parker), a motion and control technology leader. What device are they using over what type of network? “We were able to … fine-tune our systems in a very performant way,” notes Hood. Dynatrace news.

Benchmarking 179

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 179

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. If this is something that excites you, we’d love for you to join us.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. If only it were that easy. The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way.

DevOps 209

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 209

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. These rules determine to which origin data center each request will be directed, based on customer-defined conditions, within the Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure.‍For A Load Balancer operates based on a set of guidelines.

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Just like how a traffic cop ensures cars flow smoothly at an intersection, a Load Balancer makes sure data moves efficiently across the network. Maintenance Without MayhemWhat happens when one of your servers/data centers needs a tune-up?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on your hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Distributed traces are extended with code-level execution trees that include useful information such as CPU time, suspension time, and network I/O time. 1) Metrics. What’s next?

Metrics 191

Metrics Monitoring Azure Code 191

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Teams are embracing new technologies and continuously deploying code. Stay tuned – this is only the start. Dynatrace news. In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success.

Cloud 296

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 296

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. You’ll also get a look at new technologies such as HTTP/2 that will take your website’s speed from merely adequate to seriously fast. – Aurel V.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. The challenges begin with collecting, cleaning, and formatting training data.

Tuning 94

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 94

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Machine learning is one such transformational technology that is top of mind not only for CIOs and CEOs, but also developers and data scientists. Post-training model tuning and rich states.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Kubernetes was architected to allow for additional technologies and services to assist in speed, scalability and reducing the overall complexity which can arise from a Microservices environment. Automatic configuration of application network. Automatic rollout/rollback of containers. Automatic service distribution.

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 220

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data. Amazon Lex. After the launch of the Alexa Skill Kit (ASK), customers loved the ability to build voice bots or skills for Alexa. Amazon Polly.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The right leader matters, as retired Admiral John Richardson attested. And their popularity is on the rise.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91