The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Architecture Overview The first pivotal step in managing impressions begins with the creation of a Source-of-Truth (SOT) dataset. These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

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. TCP Server. // Start TCP server. listener, _ := net.Listen("tcp", ":1234"). conn, _ := listener.Accept().

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. ActiveGate also optimizes traffic volume in your network and serves as a secure relay layer in protected networks and DMZs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud-server monitoring. Website monitoring.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Dynatrace provides full page load waterfalls with automated optimization findings for all captured user sessions, and also allows you to drill into server-side PurePaths.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Istio is one of the most popular service meshes It allows you to manage complex microservice architectures based on configuration—there’s no need to change any application code. Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through a service mesh.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. This refers to the load on your network and servers. My web requests are all HTTP 2XX success, so why are my users getting errors? Saturation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns. Reduced cost.

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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. Especially as software development continually evolves using microservices, containerized architecture, distributed multicloud platforms, and open-source code. What is web application security?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer and the Data Gateway Platform , both of which are integral to Netflix’s data architecture. Handling Bursty Traffic : Managing significant traffic spikes during high-demand events, such as new content launches or regional failovers.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. OSDI’20.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. The Azure MySQL dashboard serves as a comprehensive overview of your MySQL servers and database services. Azure Front Door enables you to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability. Azure Batch.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. queries/sec.

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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. Apply Davis AI to your TIBCO EMS servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

In large organizations, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of applications — each with its own specific infrastructure requirements based on architecture, function, traffic, and more. In a push framework , a centralized server sends configuration data to specific systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As more organizations embrace microservices-based architecture to deliver goods and services digitally, maintaining customer satisfaction has become exponentially more challenging. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We tried a few iterations of what this new service should look like, and eventually settled on a modern architecture that aimed to give more control of the API experience to the client teams. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications. Because every DevOps environment is unique, exactly how organizations implement these monitoring types will differ depending on architecture and tools.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. running on the 64-bit OS/390x platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

That’s particularly true of our GRPC clients and servers, where request cancellations due to timeouts interact with reliability features such as retries, hedging and fallbacks. Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second.

Latency 237

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 237

Dynatrace

JULY 14, 2020

Istio, currently one of the most popular service meshes, allows you to manage complex micro-service architectures based on configuration—there’s no need to change any application code. Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through the service mesh.

Traffic 182

Traffic Programming Monitoring Technology 182

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. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes. Were there attack attempts?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Means that data might be lost in Memcached after a reboot of the server/machine. Memcached stores variables in memory and retrieves data directly from server memory. Memcached is very good at handling high traffic websites. Redis can not handle heavy traffic on read/write. Redis is like a database that resides in memory.

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Traffic Software Architecture Website Efficiency 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Cloud-native software architectures provide the ability for deployment options , like Blue/Green, Canary, Dark Launches, and Feature Flagging – and make them easier. They’ll cover scenarios where run-book automation is a fit, and where application architecture supporting “self-healing” is a fit.

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DevOps Software Software Best Practices 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the update: Improve architectural design to eliminate SSO bottleneck risk [In progress] Security and access are critical aspects of our architecture, and as such, there are many areas we’re looking to improve. Hopefully never.) This has been completed.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

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Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 139

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The backend is a single one where the “passive” PMM instance (the one that is a pure “read replica”) is marked as “backup” so that traffic is only routed there in case the primary fails the health check. For simplicity, the PMM instances are configured to listen to the 80 port (http) on the private IPs.

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 122

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance.

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