The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Eventually Consistent Global Counter While some users may accept the limitations of a Best-Effort counter, others opt for precise counts, durability and global availability.

Latency 248

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 248

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Release details.

Availability 43

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is Apache Kafka?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

As a result, requests are uniformly handled, and responses are processed cohesively. This data is processed from a real-time impressions stream into a Kafka queue, which our title health system regularly polls. Many of the metadata and assets involved in title setup have specific timelines for when they become available to members.

Traffic 172

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 172

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. This significantly increases event latency.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

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. The performance characteristics of the application are determined by its architecture and design.

Processing 147

Processing Performance Scalability Best Practices 147

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. Once we have that data, we can move on to the next steps in the process. Once we have that data, we can move on to the next steps in the process.

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Metrics Testing 137

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.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

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). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring. Dynatrace news.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

It supports high-availability, provides automated load balancing, and has the intelligence to balance load between masters and slaves so write loads are always directed at masters, while read loads are directed to slaves. The Pgpool-II parent process forks 32 child processes by default – these are available for connection.

Cache 264

Cache Servers Architecture Processing 264

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. 2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace.

Tuning 278

Tuning Scalability Efficiency Processing 278

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.

Traffic 345

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 345

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

Software 278

Software Software Development Performance 278

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

All the needed components are available out of the box in the OpenTelemetry collector contrib distribution, which is included in the demo application. Next, select one of the log lines to view the available attributes. metrics from span data. You can see it’s the front-end proxy that creates the most spans.

Open Source 147

Open Source Metrics Architecture Infrastructure 147

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

This includes digging through each monitored data source and adding tags to the sensitive data points; this process is usually expensive, exhausting, error-prone, and unscalable. The selected rules can be configured for a whole environment or, more granularly, for specific process groups.

Government 277

Government Storage Tuning Monitoring 277

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. What is BPF?

Network 327

Network Transportation AWS Cloud 327

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. Compare Functionality. Compare Ease of Use. Total Cost. $0.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. On the details page of a vulnerability, the number of affected process groups for vulnerable functions in use now links to remediation tracking , where filtering is now also possible by the name of a vulnerable function in use. General Availability (Build 1.240.130). OS Services.

Tuning 245

Tuning Network Monitoring Availability 245

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, the Parliament of India released the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , which regulates the processing of digital personal data in India and recognizes the right of individuals to protect their data in India. An overview of how to upgrade to Dynatrace is available in our guide, Upgrade to Dynatrace SaaS.

AWS 264

AWS Azure Tuning Analytics 264

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. General Availability (Build 1.241.153). General Availability (Build 1.241.153). New features and enhancements. Application Security. Dashboards.

Tuning 246

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

This process, known as auto-adaptive thresholding, eliminates the need to define a static threshold upfront. Once the learning phase is complete, all subsequent validation results are fed into Davis AI to fine-tune the thresholds based on changed behavior. Instead, it derives the suitable thresholds from previous validation results.

Metrics 297

Metrics Engineering Code Tuning 297

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. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Processing took several hours to complete.

Media 296

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 296

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition.

Servers 120

Servers Availability Database Open Source 120

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

COBOL applications must be processed on expensive general processors, while Java applications are eligible to run on IBM Z specialty processors such as zIIPs. Processing capacity associated with zIIPs isn’t subject to license costs and maintenance fees. This insight lays the required foundation for our modernization process.”

Java 257

Java Database Programming Government 257

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Dynatrace platform automatically integrates OpenTelemetry data, thereby providing the highest possible scalability, enterprise manageability, seamless processing of data, and, most importantly the best analytics through Davis (our AI-driven analytics engine), and automation support available. Seeing is believing.

AWS 255

AWS Metrics Analytics Government 255

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.

Open Source 264

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2019

The Dynatrace platform automatically integrates OpenTelemetry data, thereby providing the highest possible scalability, enterprise manageability, seamless processing of data, and, most importantly the best analytics through Davis (our AI-driven analytics engine), and automation support available. What Dynatrace will contribute.

IoT 53

IoT C++ Analytics Java 53

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

Open a host, cluster, cloud service, or database view in one of these apps, and you immediately see logs alongside other relevant metrics, processes, SLOs, events, vulnerabilities, and data offered by the app. For a single log record found, you can easily see the surrounding logs.

Analytics 267

Analytics Infrastructure Database Cloud 267

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.

Latency 235

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 235

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

Containerd monitoring support is now available in a Beta release for all Kubernetes-based platforms (version 1.11+). Containerd monitoring support now includes: Automatic monitoring of processes in containerd containers. Rule-based control of automated process monitoring in containerd containers. So stay tuned.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Analytics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Event Prioritization Considering the use cases were wide ranging both in terms of their sources and their importance, we built segmentation into the event processing. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without adequate flexibility in the subscription model, your organization might fail to benefit from capabilities that could transform your observability and security processes. If you’re already using the new Dynatrace Platform Subscription model (available as of April 26, 2023), cost monitors are already running on your account!

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Tuning Infrastructure Availability 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. Lead time for changes helps teams understand how effective their processes are.

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Intelligent Monitoring Every service operator knows the difficulty of alert tuning. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring 216

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 216

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? As defined by Gartner , service-level objectives are an agreed-upon target within an SLA that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to provide the best opportunity for customer success.

Metrics 246

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 246

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching. Conclusion.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79