High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Redis Server: 5.07, x86/64. MongoDB server: 4.4.2, BangDB server: 2.0.0, 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. Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. The latency table for test D is as below.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. This dual availability ensures immediate processing capabilities alongside comprehensive long-term data retention. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

Tuning 166

Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

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. High performance.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

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?

Strategy 147

Strategy Latency Availability Traffic 147

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. Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service. Also, since this logic resides on the server side, we can iterate on any required changes faster.

Traffic 347

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

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.

Azure 299

Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 357

Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. 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. But what else is TTFB?

Latency 270

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

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. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. 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. Availability. Reliability.

Software 306

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

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.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers. To emit a run queue latency metric, we leveraged three eBPF hooks: sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new, and sched_switch.

Latency 262

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? 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.

Cache 348

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 348

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

They were either running their own infrastructure and installing and deploying Brotli everywhere proved non-trivial, or they were using a CDN who didn’t have readily available support for the new algorithm. Taking a very reductive and simplistic view of how files are transmitted from server to client, we need to look at TCP.

Latency 302

Latency Servers Website Speed 302

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

With the many observability options available from Dynatrace, you can seamlessly monitor hybrid Kubernetes environments in a unified platform, gaining end-to-end visibility across both operating systems and the underlying cluster. Also include the volume name and mountPath of your OneAgent in the volumeMounts parameter.

Performance 147

Performance Java Operating System Infrastructure 147

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%! Sydney, we have a disk write latency problem! It was on August 25 th at 14:00 when Davis initially alerted on a disk write latency issues to Elastic File System (EFS) on one of our EC2 instances in AWS’s Sydney Data Center.

Infrastructure 259

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 259

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. The good news is that you can maximize availability and prevent website crashes by designing websites specifically for these events. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images.

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. Risk: Service Shutdowns. to just 3.6s.

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

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 241

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 241

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.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

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. Return larger payload sizes.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. 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. Dynatrace news. Saturation.

Automotive 290

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 290

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. That’s particularly true of our GRPC clients and servers, where request cancellations due to timeouts interact with reliability features such as retries, hedging and fallbacks.

Latency 237

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 237

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.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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.

Cache 233

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Determining the root cause of these issues can be difficult when the underlying “hardware” is a virtualization software stack rather than a bare-metal server. Therefore, we have redesigned this extension from scratch, replacing the previously available WMI-based extension. Hyper-V is essential for the Windows ecosystem.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda 258

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. SAP server.

Latency 164

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 164

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

However, providing insight into a certain portion of Mission Control health monitoring of Dynatrace Managed deployments has to-date only been available to Dynatrace ONE Premium customers. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency. What’s next.

Software 214

Software Software Programming Metrics 214

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Resource consumption: Observing computational resource availability and saturation, whether deployed in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes or CPU-enabled servers. Data quality and drift: Monitoring the quality and characteristics of training and runtime data to detect significant changes that might impact model accuracy.

Open Source 279

Open Source Metrics Java Latency 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. 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. Pay Per Use.

Serverless 246

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 246

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. Let’s look at the top cloud computing use cases, the use cases for which cloud probably isn’t the best route available, and the use cases where a hybrid approach may be best.

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. Moreover, Pigasus wants to do all this on a single server! Can you really do all this on a single server??

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

Serverless 235

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 235

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. Let’s click “Apache Web Server apache” now. All of which, without the need to access or analyze web server logs.

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Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243