The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. The graphic below (Fig.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

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

APRIL 8, 2021

To improve DNS load-balancing performance, Web UI traffic is by default disabled when installing 13th and following node (or 7th and following in a datacenter for Premium HA ). You can enable/disable Web UI traffic for a node via Cluster REST API. Security enhanced by removing EXEC:ALL entry from dtrun sudoers setup. Cluster REST API.

Traffic 142

Traffic Storage Internet Internet 142

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. Unlike evictions from resource exhaustion on a node, this event resulted from ephemeral storage limits exceeded on the pod.

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Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 304

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

In this blog post, you will learn: how to leverage FDE on Kubernetes with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL how to start using encrypted storage for already running cluster Prepare In most public clouds, block storage is not encrypted by default. The configuration of the storage class depends on your storage plugin.

Storage 118

Storage AWS Cloud Database 118

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms. This is significant for modern business environments. <p>The </p>

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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 223

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. It involves both the collection and storage of logs, as well as aggregation, analysis, and even the long-term storage and destruction of log data.

Systems 189

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 189

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

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. To keep clusters resilient and performing well, the ALR mechanism intelligently analyzes only parts of the traffic and makes an estimate of the full load. This means that disk space requirements for Dynatrace transaction storage may increase.

Processing 156

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 156

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 118

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 118

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. Synchronous storage size. Async storage size. Storage read size rate. Storage read count rate.

Storage 133

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 133

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the private and public clouds.

Azure 145

Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145

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 195

Java Traffic Education Storage 195

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.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances. This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g.,

AWS 117

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 117

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 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

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. This means that you’ll get three dashboards per management zone , one for each focus area.

Software 165

Software Software Programming Metrics 165

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-298915). APM-295508).

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 234

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 216

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 216

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.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 120

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.

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Storage Metrics Strategy Java 103

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. they can can be two orders of magnitude faster than FastBitSet.js.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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

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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

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. But the archiver process will take time as it also considers system load, replica lag, and specified parameters to throttle the archiving process without affecting ongoing traffic. Even after deleting all the rows, space won’t be freed.

Traffic 59

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services. By providing ample data storage and processing power, cloud computing platforms serve as a fundamental enabler for the advancement of AI, offering scalability, adaptability, and cost-efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

Sentinel policies are written to enforce rules such as: Requiring encryption for all Amazon S3 buckets and Azure Blob Storage containers. Ensuring that security groups restrict inbound traffic to approved ports. Restricting access to specific AWS services based on defined IAM roles.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. Speaking of storage efficiency, I’m certain that storage just sitting on disk takes a lot less electricity than files being sent over networks — but it still has a cost.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3]. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO. Premium storage support. VM Types and Sizes. VM Image Options.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

Architecture Scalability Latency Traffic 55

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. And, S3 Website Hosting can redirect that incoming traffic to your preferred domain name (e.g. Each service has one new feature. Route 53 can now specify that a root domain (e.g.

Website 127

Website Traffic Storage Scalability 127

Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A call tracking app allows you to monitor traffic and identify peak call times. Compliance and Security Phone call tracking apps often come with features that ensure compliance with industry regulations, such as call recording and storage capabilities for legal purposes.

Strategy 52

Strategy Big Data Scalability Games 52