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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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. How does it work?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

We recently announced Dynatrace Live Debugger , which gives developers unprecedented access to real-time data and runtime behavior insights. This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. Load generators simulate traffic.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic.

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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. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. It serves as a crucial component between applications and users.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Its design prioritizes high availability and efficient data transfer with minimal overhead, making it a practical choice for handling real-time data pipelines and distributed event processing. It follows a push-based approach, ensuring messages are distributed to consumers as soon as they become available.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It also means developers can receive valuable real-world feedback more quickly, which enables them to prioritize fixes and new features that will have the most impact. Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This modular microservices-based approach to computing decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide greater flexibility and durability, while enabling developers to build and update these applications faster and with less risk. Why do you need a service mesh?

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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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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. 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.

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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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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Chrome for iOS?

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). Java EE 7 is Final.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Read Also: Best PostgreSQL GUI Incremental Backups PostgreSQL 17 introduces incremental backups , a game-changer for large and high-traffic databases. Get automated backups, high availability, and seamless scalingso you can focus on your applications, not database maintenance. Start your free trial today!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Database monitoring.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. To achieve this, many organizations are adopting DevOps practices to provide developers with a delivery platform to release their applications and services autonomously and independently.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

Consequently, by understanding the intricacies involved, this enables us to swiftly confirm or refute the functional/business case of the business teams involved, including project managers, top management, developers, and tech leads. Path 2 (easier): I’m familiar with my application and the development team.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

How to mitigate the risk The following versions of OpenSSH are impacted by this vulnerability: Versions earlier than 4.4p1 (unless patched for CVE-2006-5051 and CVE-2008-4109) Versions from 8.5p1 up to, but not including, 9.8p1 OpenBSD systems are unaffected by this, as OpenBSD developed a secure mechanism in 2001 that prevents this vulnerability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA). As you can see, stats are available via the port 8404. Failover The failover will be handled by the HAProxy automatically when it detects that the current primary is no longer available.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability. availability.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Thomas has set up Dynatrace Real User Monitoring in a way for it to monitor internal and external traffic separately. Splitting traffic into two separate applications also allows you to: Enforce different SLAs for internal vs external. Example #2 ensuring DevOps tool chain availability at Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers. So, if we evacuate South American traffic to North America, demand for CE and Android DRM won’t grow uniformly.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. Now, you can set up your Firehose stream.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2022

When multiplied by the amount of traffic that these offerings attract, it’s nearly impossible for application developers to tie in user experience insights with errors that are discovered in production. Developers can track backward from specific or arbitrary user sessions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

From the below screenshot you can see that the traffic picked up not only slightly but quadrupled! Despite the increased traffic, the other KPIs for the campaign didn’t display any increases or benefits to the campaign which wasn’t a great result for the company. Why were the results not as expected?

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

Python is a powerful and flexible programming language used by millions of developers around the world to build their applications. It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn't exist yet. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. Source: web.dev 2.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. Technology developments come in waves.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. 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. Availability. SLOs improve software quality.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Sometimes, you need information about your system or application that is only available in log data—for example, when logging relevant data points from your application during the development stage for debugging. This update is also available with Dynatrace Managed version 1.232+ with Log Monitoring v2 support. Duration: 163.41

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Moreover, with the new metric browser , you can easily list and filter available metrics, chart metrics, and view automated multidimensional analysis.

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