The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

As organizations increasingly migrate their applications to the cloud, efficient and scalable load balancing becomes pivotal for ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. How does it work?

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

HAProxy is one of the cornerstones in complex distributed systems, essential for achieving efficient load balancing and high availability. This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

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.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

DZone

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And there are a lot of monitoring tools available providing all kinds of features and concepts. For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. For that reason, we use monitoring tools.

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Monitoring Servers Hardware Open Source 312

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

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?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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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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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 270

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker? Networking.

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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. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 261

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 114

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. It serves as a crucial component between applications and users.

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Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 207

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 227

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh. Why do you need a service mesh?

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Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 254

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Improved availability: Caching can help maintain service availability during high-traffic periods or in case of temporary server failures by serving content from the cache.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s consider the business challenges of an online shop that is powered by a microservice architecture where several instances of each microservice run, including the shopping cart service, to ensure the highest possible availability. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In a world where 99.999% availability is the standard, measuring MTTR is a crucial practice to ensure resiliency and stability. This metric helps determine the effectiveness of your monitoring and detection capabilities in support of system reliability and availability. App availability. Application usage and traffic.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 213

DZone

JANUARY 28, 2021

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source, fast, and reliable solution that provides load balancer and reverse proxy features for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. HAProxy load balancer handles heavy load traffic and reroutes requests seamlessly across multiple servers. HAProxy also supports the following features:

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AWS Open Source Traffic Servers 212

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). SAP to acquire Hybris to jumpstart its presence in e-commerce ( VentureBeat). Hacker News).

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Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

As the world socially distances, we are seeing significant increases in website traffic as people turn to their phones and devices, to connect with loved ones, buy online, distance learn, work remotely, and continuously keep up with the news. . We are hopeful that the world can, and will, quickly return to normal. it’s not increasing!).

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Innovation Traffic Website Monitoring 226

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 202

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. optimizing traffic routing. optimizing traffic routing.

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Network Traffic Tuning Infrastructure 172

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.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

Network 271

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 271

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers. So, if we evacuate South American traffic to North America, demand for CE and Android DRM won’t grow uniformly.

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 191

High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

com and the strategies we use to keep it up and running with high availability. The number of services that compose our product in order to scale our organization and handle the increases in traffic went from under 10 to over 30 services. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA). As you can see, stats are available via the port 8404. Failover The failover will be handled by the HAProxy automatically when it detects that the current primary is no longer available.

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 107

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

Architecture 103

Architecture Availability Open Source Hardware 103

DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

Imagine running an online store — having your site available 99.9% If those pages aren’t available, it doesn’t matter that the rest of your site is working fine. If those pages aren’t available, it doesn’t matter that the rest of your site is working fine. of the time might sound good, but what if that 0.1%

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