The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 211

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Operating systems support. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x.

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 225

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Robert runs a multi-tenant e-commerce system on a managed Kubernetes environment. Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. This data confirmed that the system was killing off the report service pods for lack of memory.

Java 184

Java Traffic Education Storage 184

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. Dynatrace OneAgent has been able to detect TIBCO EMS processes out-of-the-box for some time already. Synchronous storage size.

Storage 132

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 132

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2].

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Disaster recovery is not optional for businesses operating in the digital age.

Storage 120

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 120

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

Software 162

Software Software Programming Metrics 162

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Dynatrace news. AWS Lambda. Amazon Fargate. Amazon CloudWatch.

Best Practices 204

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 204

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e., PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways).

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 196

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction. This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Space constraint has been an endless and painstaking process for many of us, especially in systems that have a high number of transactions and data growth exceeding hundreds of GBs in a matter of days. MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. What is partitioning?

Traffic 59

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

To address these challenges, the concept of "Shift Left" has gained prominence, emphasizing the early integration of compliance checks in the software development process. By integrating policy as code frameworks into CI/CD pipelines, compliance checks are seamlessly integrated into the development process.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Thus, whenever a master MySQL goes down (whether due to a MySQL crash, OS crash, system reboot, etc.), This ensures that the system continues to be available to the applications. Now, Pacemaker on the partition [(S1), (S2)] detects that there is no master available in the cluster and initiates a promotion process.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. In order to filter these dashboards by tenant all they need is a Dynatrace Management Zone , which is based on meta data extracted by Dynatrace from e.g. k8s tags, container labels or process environment variables. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices.

AWS 125

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 125

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Cloud enables video analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. File System. Storage I/O. echo tsc > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource. Networking.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

Further, query events contain other important elements such as the client hostname, application name, login, Windows process ID, etc. So, for a few years we were stuck – the only option was to manually create an XEvents trace that writes to a ring buffer or file target with Azure Storage, neither of which are optimal.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. File System. Storage I/O. echo tsc > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource. Networking.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. or above for the checkout process. The Apdex score of 0.85

Traffic 170

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 170

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. or above for the checkout process. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1.

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. It uses a hash table to manage these pairs, divided into fixed-size buckets with linked lists for key-value storage.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. The best part was that the entire process was what I call Ã?hands Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

DevOps 213

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 213

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 208

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 208