The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Analytical Insights Additionally, impression history offers insightful information for addressing a number of platform-related analytics queries. Automating Performance Tuning with Autoscalers Tuning the performance of our Apache Flink jobs is currently a manual process.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Kafka is optimized for high-throughput event streaming , excelling in real-time analytics and large-scale data ingestion. Apache Kafka uses a custom TCP/IP protocol for high throughput and low latency.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

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Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Perform is our company’s event once a year in Las Vegas, where our customers and partners visit us to learn more about our product and industry. However, it was my first time at Perform, and although I knew I would learn a thing or two in the next week, I was unaware of how beneficial taking part in this event would be.

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Development Performance Airlines Healthcare 245

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces.

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Analytics AWS Infrastructure Strategy 246

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. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 264

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study. Case Study.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Customers can also proactively address issues using Davis AI’s predictive analytics capabilities by analyzing network log content, such as retries or anomalies in performance response times. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 279

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.

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Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats.

Cloud 260

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 260

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. These mechanisms are often compared to a conductor directing an orchestra to perform elaborate symphonies and juicy operas for our enjoyment. In production, containers are easy to replicate. Networking.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

The “normal” set up, is that marketers will be looking at their web-analytics solutions, whilst the IT operations team are looking at their monitoring but neither are connected or talking with one another about what is going on in each other’s team. And throughout my career, it’s something I’ve seen time and time again.

Traffic 237

Traffic Analytics DevOps Infrastructure 237

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news. SimpleNodeJsService.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. Not everyone has expertise in performance optimization and how it can impact SEO. But you may be wondering, “how do I get started?”. 28-day lookbacks.

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Traffic Mobile Metrics Analytics 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

Traffic 242

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 242

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. Although Dynatrace can’t help with the manual remediation process itself , end-to-end observability, AI-driven analytics, and key Dynatrace features proved crucial for many of our customers’ remediation efforts.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

Performance metrics are a big one. When you’re doing performance testing, much of it is what you would call synthetic testing. Synthetic information like this enters my mind when spending tons of time on performance. ” And the performance tools we use report this kind of data to us readily.

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Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 95

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. Improved customer experience.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Traffic 244

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Traffic lights on a busy stretch of road could go dark. This gives public sector teams the best of both worlds: peak-performance applications without vulnerabilities, made possible by a highly scalable application security solution. Thousands of veterans may not receive benefits notifications.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. Besides real user analytics, we also use Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring , which continuously validates successful logins to our SaaS tenants on each cluster. Fact #3: Minimum impact detected through synthetics.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Logs can include information about user activities, system events, network traffic, and other various activities that can help to detect and respond to critical security incidents. But with a platform approach to log analytics based on observability at a cloud-native scale, organizations can accomplish much more.

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Java Analytics Infrastructure Cloud 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The built-in unified analysis pages offer real-time comparison of key performance indicators while applying a topology-first approach to the data. The F5 BIG-IP LTM extension offers a complete view, beyond simple metrics, into your Local Traffic Manager (LTM) platform. Advanced load balancer analysis. ” What’s next.

Network 246

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

The key to accomplishing both these goals is having effective mobile app monitoring that quickly identifies the root cause of performance issues. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 236

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace provides advanced observability across on-premises systems and cloud providers in a single platform, providing application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Artificial Intelligence-driven operations (AIOps), code-level execution, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and digital business analytics.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 221

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance. Database-service views provide all the metrics you need to set up high-performance database services. Azure HDInsight supports a broad range of use cases including data warehousing, machine learning, and IoT analytics. Azure Batch. Azure HDInsight.

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production assets operations are performed in parallel with older data reprocessing without any service downtime. Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams.

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