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.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Progressive rollouts, rollbacks, storage orchestration, bin packing, self-healing, cost efficiency, and access to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem carry heavy observability challenges. Triage and diagnosis become a long process of hunting for clues. Incidents are harder to solve.

Storage 299

Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 299

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Log analytics, on the other hand, is the process of using the gathered logs to extract business or operational insight. Dynatrace news.

Systems 185

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 185

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.

AWS 218

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 218

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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 133

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 133

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. Another aspect of automation is to switch the traffic for the application from Main to Standby after promotion.

Storage 120

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 120

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. APM-290353). APM-292404). APM-298915). APM-295508). APM-297575). APM-289781).

Operating System 230

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 230

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.

Java 190

Java Traffic Education Storage 190

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As Dynatrace deployments grow rapidly, we’re making it easier for Dynatrace Managed customers to proactively monitor and plan their network, storage, and compute power requirements—so that we can deliver the SaaS experience on top of it.

Software 165

Software Software Programming Metrics 165

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

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

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. Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3].

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

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 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. AWS Lambda.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution.

Storage 116

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 116

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network. Aurora brings a novel architecture to the relational database to address this constraint, most notably by pushing redo processing to a multi-tenant scaleout storage service, purpose-built for Aurora.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

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 best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2019

However, this approach eventually led to storage issues. To address this storage issue for older snapshots, we’ve adapted our cleanup strategy so that monthly snapshots are now removed automatically after 6 months. Configuration traffic per cluster node wasn’t preserved during upgrades.

Storage 103

Storage Metrics Strategy Java 103

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

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. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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? ibd -rw-r --.

Traffic 59

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

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

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Which one takes more processing power to parse and display? There has got to be a balance between the propagation and duplicative storage as far as the savings that would be realized by the efficiency of saving requests. Website traffic. There are two images sitting on a server, a large one and a small one. The large one.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. Avoid over-indexing, which can bloat storage and slow writes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. The bulk of this latency comes from on-device frame processing, not network transmission delay. The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

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. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. What this chart summarizes is that.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Now, Pacemaker on the partition [(S1), (S2)] detects that there is no master available in the cluster and initiates a promotion process. Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Latency 177

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 177

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. - File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52