The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. We then calculate the run queue latency by simply subtracting the timestamps.

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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 245

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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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 236

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Take your monitoring, data exploration, and storytelling to the next level with outstanding data visualization All your applications and underlying infrastructure produce vast volumes of data that you need to monitor or analyze for insights. Infrastructure health: A honeycomb chart is often used to visualize infrastructure health.

Latency 213

Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics 213

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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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 235

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is particularly important as we build out new functionality that relies on Pushy; a strong, stable infrastructure foundation allows our partners to continue to build on top of Pushy with confidence. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

Latency 228

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 228

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

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.

Best Practices 233

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Availability. SLOs aid decision making. SLOs promote automation. Reliability.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 277

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency.

Engineering 193

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 193

VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability , aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. So when they don’t get one, they ask again — and again… and again… We thus have two compelling reasons for why high availability is so important: 1. What is high availability?

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Availability Latency DevOps Systems 52

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.

Latency 189

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 189

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. In this example, unlike latency, the remaining three signals did not receive a “pass.”

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Speed Software Software Latency 220

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 a Lambda serverless function?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 228

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. It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions.

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Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 242

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. Compare Latency. At a glance – TLDR.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

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.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

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.

Engineering 204

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 204

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance.

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Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

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?

Cache 312

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 312

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. 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. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g.

Latency 217

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 217

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

Cache 216

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 216

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 232

Systems Media Cache Open Source 232

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Full stack observability with the Dynatrace Hyper-V extension Use Dynatrace for deeper insights into the Microsoft ecosystem with the new Hyper-V extension; it provides crucial virtualization layer characteristics for Windows infrastructure observability. We’re always looking for feedback and opportunities to improve.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 227

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. Try it out yourself The capabilities highlighted in this blog post will be available in Dynatrace SaaS environments in the coming weeks. Interact with data intuitively and easily and benefit from immediate, AI-supported insights.

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Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 259

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.

Monitoring 174

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 174

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance.

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Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

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?

Traffic 356

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 356

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. Now that we’ve compared throughput performance, let’s take a look at ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean latency for MySQL. Read-Intensive Latency Benchmark. Balanced Workload Latency Benchmark.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure. Performance monitoring Dynatrace can collect performance metrics from Nutanix clusters, including latency, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and network throughput.

Virtualization 206

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 260

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 260

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. ScaleGrid also maintains 53% lower latency on average throughout the entire MySQL AWS performance tests.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

Best Practices 203

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 203

DZone

AUGUST 11, 2022

They address the primary use cases for the organization’s products or support its underlying vital infrastructures, such as a product search service for an e-commerce site, a content posting service for a social media app, or a payment processing framework. Tier 1 services are critical to a company’s profitability.

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Social Media Media Latency Website 130