Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations.

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Following are some of the coolest things weve seen engineers do with Live Debugger. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Load generators simulate traffic. Live snapshot includes variables, process, stack trace, and tracing information.

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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. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. This dual availability ensures immediate processing capabilities alongside comprehensive long-term data retention.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Personalized Experience Refresh Netflix Recommendation engine continuously refreshes recommendations for every member. 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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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. I am available to help you find and fix your site-speed issues through performance audits , training and workshops , consultancy , and more. But for many queries, there is lots of helpful content available. You should get in touch.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.' An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the latest enhancements of Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics , Dynatrace extends coverage for Native Syslog support: Use Dynatrace ActiveGate to automatically add context and optimize network traffic to your Syslog messages. Still, an SLO’s quality lies in the significance of the underlying service-level indicator.

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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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. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. In some deployment scenarios, you might skip CloudWatch altogether.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

I posed these questions to a couple of friends and colleagues who are responsible for monitoring critical infrastructure and services and my friend Thomas and my colleagues from the Dynatrace Engineering Productivity shared the following stories and screenshots with me. Example #2 ensuring DevOps tool chain availability at Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s consider the business challenges of an online shop that is powered by a microservice architecture where several instances of each microservice run, including the shopping cart service, to ensure the highest possible availability. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). SAP to acquire Hybris to jumpstart its presence in e-commerce ( VentureBeat). Hacker News).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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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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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. com and the strategies we use to keep it up and running with high availability. Authentication is critical for the vast majority of apps. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

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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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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Without efficient, reliable, and repeatable software updates, engineers need to redirect their focus from developing new features to managing and debugging their deployments. An automated deployment system needs to carefully sequence a software update across a fleet while it is actively receiving traffic.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. With tools like ApplicationVantage, network engineers discovered application inefficiencies and advised on corrective actions. Technology developments come in waves.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Workflow leveraging Site Reliability Guardian to make release decisions.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In addition to being available as metrics in custom charts , you can view these metrics at the process group instance level in the Dynatrace web UI. Aggregated connection pool metrics are available on the process group overview page. A Davis detected problem identifies an increase in traffic as a possible root cause.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Frederick O’Brien.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

While the Explore interface is useful for quickly visualizing known metrics, Davis CoPilot is great for exploring your data when you know your desired outcome but are unfamiliar with the available data. exploring your data when you know your desired outcome but are unfamiliar with the available data.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one.

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