DZone

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By providing a dedicated service layer to facilitate service discovery and how applications share information with each other, they provide security, tracing, monitoring, and traffic control.

Traffic 287

Traffic Infrastructure Monitoring 287

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

API resilience is about creating systems that can recover gracefully from disruptions, such as network outages or sudden traffic spikes, ensuring they remain reliable and secure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems.

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Design Scalability Architecture 239

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, if you’re monitoring network traffic and the average over the past 7 days is 500 Mbps, the threshold will adapt to this baseline. An anomaly will be identified if traffic suddenly drops below 200 Mbps or above 800 Mbps, helping you identify unusual spikes or drops.

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Traffic Metrics Analytics Monitoring 262

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Therefore, real online traffic is crucial for server-side testing. TCPCopy [1] is an open-source traffic replay tool that has been widely adopted by large enterprises. It is now difficult to rely solely on the personal experience of developers or testers to cover all possible business scenarios.

Traffic 182

Traffic Open Source Internet Internet 182

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Network traffic power calculations rely on static power estimations for both public and private networks. Static assumptions are: Local network traffic uses 0.12 Public network traffic uses 1.0 These estimates are converted using the emission factor for the data center location.

Energy 223

Energy Analytics Traffic Cloud 223

DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events. System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users.

Engineering 173

Engineering Traffic Architecture Network 173

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

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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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 349

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To detect issues proactively, we need to simulate traffic and predict system behavior in advance. Once artificial traffic is generated, discarding the response object and relying solely on logs becomes inefficient.

Traffic 172

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 172

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

Traffic 180

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 180

DZone

MARCH 24, 2025

A sudden spike in traffic caused Lambda timeouts, API Gateway threw 5xx errors, and customers started tweeting, Why cant I check out?! Our "serverless" order processing system built on AWS Lambda and API Gateway was humming along, handling 1,000 transactions/minute. Then, disaster struck.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Engineering 147

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

Traffic 357

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 357

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This enables proactive changes such as resource autoscaling, traffic shifting, or preventative rollbacks of bad code deployment ahead of time.

Artificial Intelligence 258

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Architecture Cloud 258

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

Social Media 281

Social Media Java Traffic Internet 281

DZone

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Systems that operate at a cloud scale can get expected or unexpected surges of traffic from one or multiple callers and are expected to perform in a predictable manner. This article analyzes the effects of traffic surges on a distributed system.

Systems 290

Systems Cloud Traffic Performance 290

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

Traffic 285

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article provides an overview of Azure's load balancing options, encompassing Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door Service, and Azure Traffic Manager. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications.

Azure 287

Azure Scalability Traffic Performance 287

DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

Traffic 274

Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 274

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions. Media p erformance .

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 278

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

Traffic 261

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 261

DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Let us consider two scenarios where website traffic may increase: The goal of this kind of testing is to measure the error handling capabilities of the software to ensure that it does not crash under extremely heavy load conditions.

Software 315

Software Software Testing Traffic 315

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

AWS 264

AWS Traffic Network Architecture 264

DZone

JULY 8, 2023

Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers).

Traffic 257

Traffic Network Development 257

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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.

Traffic 279

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

Traffic 280

Traffic Government Database Network 280

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. optimizing traffic routing.

Network 240

Network Traffic Infrastructure Tuning 240

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh. Why do you need a service mesh?

Traffic 279

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 279

DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

Servers 263

Servers Traffic Open Source Games 263

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

Traffic 246

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 246

DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Statista shares insightful data on mobile web traffic that accounts for more than 50% globally from 1st quarter 2015 to 3rd quarter 2020. This increase in web traffic from mobile users comes with an expectation.

Mobile 264

Mobile Traffic Games Website 264

DZone

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. And there are a lot of monitoring tools available providing all kinds of features and concepts.

Monitoring 312

Monitoring Servers Hardware Open Source 312

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2024

Putting an external cache in front of the database is commonly used to compensate for subpar latency stemming from various factors, such as inefficient database internals, driver usage, infrastructure choices, traffic spikes, and so on.

Cache 278

Cache Database Latency Traffic 278

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross data-center traffic. Upgrade OpenTracing instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

Java 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker? Networking.

Open Source 334

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 334