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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy. This dual availability ensures immediate processing capabilities alongside comprehensive long-term data retention.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

An application example is a session store recording recent actions. We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. Application example: photo tagging; add a tag is an update, but most operations are to read tags. Conclusion.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Is my database cluster still highly available? All of our high availability options are offered in DigitalOcean, including 2 Replicas + 1 Arbiter, 3 Replicas and custom replica set setups. DigitalOcean does not have the concept of availability zones (AZ), so we distribute the nodes across different regions.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. In this example, “hipstershop.currency,” “hipstershop.checkout” and “hipstershop.cart” are also part of this critical path. In this example, we’re creating an SLO with a target of 98% of our requests without errors. Availability.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️ Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. And do any of our previous decisions dictate our options?

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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

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. In Pic 1 below, we have an example of an application which is used by editors to review their work. All data should be also available for offline analytics in Hive/Iceberg. Annotations can be versioned.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance. This is what Dynatrace captures as response time.

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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. For example, if some fields in the responses are timestamps, those will differ.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? In this post, I’ll lay out five foundational service level objective examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Quality gates examples in Dynatrace Quality gates hold much promise for organizations looking to release better software faster. 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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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Kubernetes microservices applications are a striking example of the complexity of today’s modern application and IT stacks. The Akamas approach.

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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. Our example dashboard below visualizes OpenAI token consumption.

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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

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Example 1: Architecture boundaries. This view shows the availability SLO for key application functions, like login and vehicle list, as well as a large set of timeframes, like last 30 minutes, last hour, today, and last six days.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services. This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. For example, request collapsing , edge-side includes , etc.). But what else is TTFB?

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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. For example, is it more correct for an array to be empty or null, or is it just noise? How does it work?

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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. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

ReactDOM, for example, ends up 27% smaller when compressed with maximum-level Brotli compression (11) as opposed to with maximum-level Gzip (9). This is because file-size is only one aspect of web performance, and whatever the file-size is, the resource is still sat on top of a lot of other factors and constants—latency, packet loss, etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For example, it is OK to send writes through one instance, and do reads from another one with full data read consistency guarantees. 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. Kubernetes is a good example here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. With the Dynatrace Data Explorer, you can easily analyze metrics, such as client read/write latency by Cassandra nodes and disk space usage by keyspaces.

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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

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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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I’m going to use an example taken straight from Bootstrap’s own Getting Started. What Am I Talking About?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. For example, a video encoding service is built of components that are scale-agnostic: API, workflow, and functions.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. Grabner and Cabrera offer the example of an iOS app experiencing crash issues after a team deploys a new version.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2021

Schirrmacher gave the example of a customer driving up to a gate and trying to use their QR code to scan in. For example, if there is a latency on a particular service, Dynatrace will flag this and trace its source – even if the source is a third party. What if there was a delay of 15 seconds?”

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Modern applications—enterprise and consumer—increasingly depend on third-party services to create a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user. For example, some developers may be using an old version of an API that will soon be deprecated. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. Every time the trigger executes, the function runs on an available resource. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1.

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