The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As I started to work for MongoDB, I started to get questions about MongoDB performance. We do have a lot of great resources that can help with MongoDB performance. First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Tips and Tricks for Query Performance: Let Us.explain() Them.

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Performance IoT Education Best Practices 200

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 223

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Application performance Review (also known as Application Performance Walkthrough or Application Performance Assessment) is the process of review of an existing application (in production) to evaluate its performance and scalability attributes. I would like to see a review of this performance!

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Processing Performance Scalability Best Practices 147

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview. The greatest performance improvement can be seen in the higher thread count rows of 175 and 200 threads where ScaleGrid achieves over 45% higher throughput.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Automatic data capture and display: More data, including span attributes, is available for out-of-the-box analysis, with no additional configuration necessary. The team decides to dig into the “prod” namespace to perform exploratory analysis of their critical production workloads. This is just the beginning.

Tuning 266

Tuning Website Availability Performance 266

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. These databases trade off complex querying capabilities and consistency for scale and availability.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Not available. Not available. Not available. New Oracle versions are generally available every 2-4 years.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

These environments are marked by continuous delivery of microservice updates into production, the abstractions inherent in Kubernetes environments, and challenges associated with applications distributed across multicloud environments—often with performance and security risks. Download now! and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

Monitoring 228

Monitoring Retail Performance Government 228

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. See more about the performance of stream processing frameworks in our published paper. ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks.

Engineering 188

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 188

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). Host-performance measures. Dynatrace news. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions.

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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

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. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning. No explicit tuning has been required to achieve these results. Reference processing is also only performed in major collections with ZGC. There is no best garbage collector.

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Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. 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. Conclusions. Additional resources.

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 213

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. We then collect and analyze the performance of the two clusters. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

Traffic 356

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 356

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

These regulations place demands on providers to meet key requirements to ensure the operational resilience and availability of critical financial services. By defining impact tolerances as service-level objectives (SLOs) , teams can then track their performance relative to the threshold. For financial services firms in the U.K.,

Tuning 234

Tuning DevOps Testing Innovation 234

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Other category, including migrations, queries, comparing, tuning, and replication. Most Important Metric Tracked For Database Performance. While we saw a wide variety of responses for the most important database management task, the most important metric to track for performance had three significant leaders. of responses!

Database 255

Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs.

Monitoring 260

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 260

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. Artists and video editors must create them.

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Media Innovation Energy Architecture 296

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. Manifest is requested by the client and gets delivered to the player before the license request, and it itemizes the available streams.

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C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 317

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture.

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Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 214

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS, Azure, and Cloud Foundry. The Metrics API v2 is the first v2 API available in Dynatrace. GET /metrics.

Metrics 233

Metrics Operating System Tuning Availability 233

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. You can start monitoring the availability and performance of your applications now. Try it out for yourself.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Tuning Network Operating System 200

Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. The raw event data is available via API just like the problem data as well. This data-export was running periodically and after a week or two, I had enough data to perform offline analysis.

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Tuning Architecture Monitoring Big Data 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 259

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance. Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

Latency 224

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 224

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. These mechanisms are often compared to a conductor directing an orchestra to perform elaborate symphonies and juicy operas for our enjoyment. Watch webinar now!

Open Source 310

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 310

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2019

Data analysis within large and highly dynamic microservices environments is the biggest challenge that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendors face today. Agents will continue to be the primary and best means of performance-data collection going forward. Dynatrace has now also officially joined the OpenTelemetry project.

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IoT C++ Analytics Java 47

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. Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

While receiving no feedback on the quality or security of new features leaves developers uncertain about feature performance, delayed feedback also increases a developer’s cognitive load. For example, the team must establish specific thresholds for desired service performance behavior.

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Metrics Engineering Code Tuning 239

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Please check our detailed OneAgent support matrix to learn about feature availability on specific hardware and software platforms. Behind the scenes, environment tests are performed on an ongoing basis. Does OneAgent provide identical capabilities for all supported platforms? What about Dynatrace Managed?

Operating System 238

Operating System Hardware Technology Technology 238

DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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Performance Testing Performance Testing Open Source 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Dynatrace is thrilled to announce the General Availability of support for both the 2.x This gives you deep visibility into your code running in Azure Functions, and, as a result, an understanding of its impact on overall application performance and user experience. So stay tuned! See how everything works together—automatically.

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Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 241

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition. Reading the below would not make me feel at ease while performing an upgrade: Binary downgrades are no longer supported for MongoDB Community Edition.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 99