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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

DZone

But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance. Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. For asynchronous processing, events are sent to Apache Kafka topics to be processed.

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What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

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Digital experience is a strong predictor of citizens’ trust levels in state and local agencies

Dynatrace

Therefore, the team integrated the Dynatrace observability platform into numerous aspects of its software development process to ensure the new code could meet their standards and be performant during the pandemic—when the application saw its highest traffic on record. At times, this process extended into weeks and months.