Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To extend Dynatrace diagnostic visibility into network traffic, we’ve added out-of-the-box DNS request tracking to our infrastructure monitoring capabilities. While our competitors only provide generic traffic monitoring without artificial intelligence, Dynatrace automatically analyzes DNS-related anomalies.

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Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 264

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.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 2, 2025

Our ability to efficiently localize traffic, known as Content Delivery Efficiency, is a critical component of Open Connect’s service. Specifically, we classify the causes of traffic not being served from local servers, a phenomenon that we refer to as cache misses. and assesses its ability to serve additional traffic.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 187

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.

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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 359

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

To optimize flow reporting and minimize cross-regional traffic, a FlowCollector cluster runs in each major region, and FlowExporter agents send flows to their corresponding regional FlowCollector. To minimize cross-region traffic, the broadcasting mechanism is limited to FlowCollector nodes within the same region.

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AWS Traffic Network Programming 197

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.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 362

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.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 23, 2025

Traffic fluctuations on ingest are common, so you can leverage AI-powered dynamic baselining to raise custom alerts and detect anomalies before an issue occurs. Automated operations that trigger notifications or perform autonomous remediation steps once an ingest anomaly or traffic volume deviation is detected. Smart alerting.

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Processing Analytics Metrics Traffic 157

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

DZone

JULY 7, 2025

The application system provides consistent user service through load balancing even when traffic increases or servers become unavailable. Modern software applications need load balancing as an essential component when they expand across distributed systems and containerized environments and microservices architecture.

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DZone

MAY 2, 2025

Otherwise, with the way user expectations keep climbing and how global traffic patterns shift, your system simply wont keep up. When you are serving millions of users, resilience cannot be something you add later. It has to be part of the design from the very beginning.

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Systems Traffic Strategy Design 130

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.

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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.

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Systems Cloud Traffic Performance 290

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

Enforce enterprise-grade authentication and authorization within agent-to-agent traffic. Ensure each agent’s start, stop, and reasoning steps , like tools, knowledge base, and guardrails, are captured consistently. Secure communication. Use well-defined protocols like A2A to avoid unauthorized data exposure. Continuous feedback.

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Monitoring Best Practices Artificial Intelligence AWS 204

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?

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 284

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.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 274

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.

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Scalegrid

MAY 22, 2025

Key Takeaways Common database performance issues such as slow query execution, high CPU utilization, and insufficient indexing significantly impact response times and user experience, particularly in high-traffic environments. To reach optimal database performance levels, one must first comprehend and tackle these issues.

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Database Performance Hardware Traffic 130

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.

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Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 274

DZone

MAY 1, 2025

If you have ever built any application on top of AWS and need a high throughput or volume of traffic, the chances are that youve leaned on an AWS Network Load Balancer at some point in the discussion. NLBs, being operational at Layer 4 of the OSI model, support a host of features.

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AWS Latency Traffic Internet 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

However, when we captured packets on the ZeroMQ socket while reproducing the issue, we didn’t observe heavy traffic on this socket that could cause such blocking. Meanwhile, traffic from other ports, such as port 22 for SSH, remained unaffected. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

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Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 232

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.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 335

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.

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

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.

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Software Software Testing Traffic 315

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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Government Traffic Database Network 280