The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management. Using advanced causal AI and context-aware decision-making, it identifies the root cause behind server failures. But it doesn’t stop there.

DevOps 228

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 228

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. What is Docker?

Open Source 310

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 310

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

It means that if each event loop has a connection pool that connects to every origin (our name for backend) server, there would be a multiplication of event loops by servers by Zuul instances. For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections.

Traffic 170

Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. Some say MRAM will never work in automotive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost. Inconsistent performance.

Cloud 172

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 172

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. DevOps monitoring also helps teams meet their SLAs for system uptime.

DevOps 228

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s. Over the years, it has evolved into a robust and feature-rich database that offers several advantages over other database management systems. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

Database 115

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 115

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load.

Java 230

Java Traffic Government Code 230

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 71

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s click “Apache Web Server apache” now.

Metrics 179

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. But what is the purpose behind this model? One downside of the hybrid cloud is related to downtime.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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 166

Software Software Programming Metrics 166

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. But, for a long time, you needed to be comfortable with mysqldump or other backup / restore methods to move servers or providers. No proprietary operating system or database required.

Open Source 94

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 94

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Conversely, choosing a piecemeal approach — one in which you attempt to build a database through the trial and error of various tools and extensions — can leave your system vulnerable. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Architecture 94

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 94

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. 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). What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 183

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. As said, the last one is probably the most powerful, scalable, and difficult to design, and unfortunately, it represents probably less than 5% of the solution currently deployed.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

A web application is any application that runs on a web server and is accessed by a user through a web browser. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. What is web application security?

Open Source 185

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 185

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster.

Availability 78

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

Database 92

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 92

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. You can integrate PHP with many technologies, such as databases, web servers, CMS, etc. What is PHP?

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

StatsD is a widely adopted metric protocol for collecting, aggregating, and sending developer-defined application metrics to separate systems for graphical analysis. Telegraf is a plugin-based system for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Scalable and easy Prometheus support for Kubernetes.

Open Source 259

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 259

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

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

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. Where is Cacti for streaming telemetry?

Open Source 186

Open Source Network Transportation Cache 186