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JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Yet, many are confined to a brief temporal window due to constraints in serving latency or training costs. To harness this data effectively, we employ a process of interaction tokenization, ensuring meaningful events are identified and redundancies are minimized.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services. Classic queues can be used in clusters, emphasizing their behavior during node failures, particularly regarding durability and availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Continuous Instrumentation of the Linux Scheduler To ensure the reliability of our workloads that depend on low latency responses, we instrumented the run queue latency for each container, which measures the time processes spend in the scheduling queue before being dispatched to the CPU.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Availability. Define SLOs for each service. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. Citrix latency represents the end-to-end “screen lag” experienced by a server’s users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In PACELC terms we choose PC/EC and have the same level of availability for writes of our previous system while improving our theoretical availability for reads. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency. In Kafka Streams, a large configuration space is available for potential optimizations.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. Logging is selective to cases where the old and new responses do not match.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Now, customers can use streamed responses to build more responsive applications by sending partial responses to clients as the response becomes available. Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. What is Lambda Response Streaming?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. How does it work?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Dynatrace AutomationEngine workflows automate release validation using AWS Well-Architected pillars With Dynatrace, you can create workflows that automate various tasks based on events, schedules or Davis problem triggers. Workflows are powered by a core platform technology of Dynatrace called the AutomationEngine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above. Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

One of the crucial success factors for delivering cost-efficient and high-quality AI-agent services, following the approach described above, is to closely observe their cost, latency, and reliability. With these latency, reliability, and cost measurements in place, your operations team can now define their own OpenAI dashboards and SLOs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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. This is all available out-of-the-box with the default workflow template provided by Site Reliability Guardian.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

At launch, an item’s change record is available in the stream for 24 hours after it is created. No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication. DynamoDB Triggers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

That’s because it does not require any pre-prepared schemas, and access to cold/hot storage is fully automatic and with zero latency. Dynatrace analytics capabilities, powered by hypermodal AI , enable executives to drive improved availability , strengthened security compliance , and heightened confidence in AI initiatives.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Collaboration between developers, operations, and product owners enables site reliability engineers to define and meet uptime and availability targets.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. Impact of fewer resources, for example, CPU and disk, available to different services and applications.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Many events can trigger a lambda function. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. What is AWS Lambda?

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. This configuration provides complete safety for your data, even in the event you lose the local SSD disks.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Therefore, we have redesigned this extension from scratch, replacing the previously available WMI-based extension. If you run Citrix or Windows Remote Desktops on Hyper-V, have a look at the Dynatrace extensions that can provide you with holistic observability of your ecosystem on the best platform available: Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service. Reduced latency. Dynatrace news. SRE vs DevOps? Efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Collaboration between developers, operations, and product owners enables site reliability engineers to define and meet uptime and availability targets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Unlike a traditional virtual machine-model where customers must build and manage an entire VM, serverless computing provides the ability to purchase only the CPU cycles and memory needed to support an application using an event-based pay-per-use model. Every time the trigger executes, the function runs on an available resource.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Performance monitoring Dynatrace can collect performance metrics from Nutanix clusters, including latency, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and network throughput. This helps IT teams quickly identify and troubleshoot problems, reducing downtime and ensuring the availability of critical applications.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

The screenshot below displays a workflow that listens for a deployment event of the easytrade service in the production stage. The validation process is automated based on events that occur, while the objectives’ configuration, which is validated by the Site Reliability Guardian , is stored in a separate file.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Clouds app provides a view of all available cloud-native services. Logs in context, along with other details, are instantly available after selecting a resource. The reasons are easy to find, looking at the latest improvements that went live along with the general availability of the Logs app.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. Avoid flying blind by adopting software development lifecycle events With the need for increased innovation frequency, having a clear view of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) is critical.

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