The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. We decided to move one of our Java microservices?—?let’s let’s call it GS2?—?to

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the latest enhancements of Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics , Dynatrace extends coverage for Native Syslog support: Use Dynatrace ActiveGate to automatically add context and optimize network traffic to your Syslog messages. Try it out yourself Proactively manage your environments to increase performance and reduce cost.

Cloud 299

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 299

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?

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Azure Batch.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 227

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. Start monitoring in minutes. Pool nodes. Interfaces.

Network 246

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. With this out-of-the-box support for scalable data ingest, log data is immediately available to your teams for troubleshooting and observability, investigating security issues, or auditing.

Cloud 279

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 246

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

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 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Dynatrace has added support for the newly introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Dynatrace news. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

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 DevOps 173

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways).

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Moreover, with the new metric browser , you can easily list and filter available metrics, chart metrics, and view automated multidimensional analysis.

Metrics 246

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security. Logs are immediately available for troubleshooting, security investigations, and auditing, becoming integral to the platform alongside traces and metrics.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean Droplets.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Application performance monitoring Application performance monitoring tracks the availability and performance of applications in the field. It examines metrics like response times, application programming interface availability, and page load times to flag problems that affect the user experience.

DevOps 246

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Unlike other monitoring tools on the market, which don’t provide AI-driven anomaly detection and alerting, Dynatrace delivers real-time data to track the performance of your deployed apps and the characteristics of your client traffic. Redirect the 5% of traffic back to your production slot, or. What are Azure Deployment Slots? .

Azure 173

Azure Cloud Traffic Metrics 173

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since there were no existing solutions available, we needed to build them ourselves. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Our internal IPC traffic is now a mix of plain REST, GraphQL , and gRPC.

Traffic 229

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 229

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

This was the key theme discussed with one of our Dynatrace customers as part of a virtual breakfast Dynatrace recently hosted. In their case, this is specifically about the pensions element of their platform which had seen 6-7x as much traffic during the pandemic.

Games 246

Games Traffic Virtualization Google 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

The surge in digital traffic and demand across key retail sectors during the pandemic gives a misleading impression that consumers will shift dramatically to buying online post-pandemic. One well-known example is Ikea’s mobile app allowing consumers to virtually see furniture “in-situ” at home. This is certainly not easy.

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Retail Ecommerce Government Metrics 182

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

General availability (Build 1.207.185). General availability (Build 1.207.185). Improved reliability when no traffic occurs for extended time or when the zRemote restarts. Citrix Profile Management now correctly indicated as Citrix Common technology, instead of Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA). x86 (64bit-only).

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Operating System Java Mobile Cache 165

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

This includes the communication process, TNS Listener, so all incoming and outgoing traffic will be associated with the group. The Oracle other processes group will keep the pre-rework identifier of the Oracle group, so all historic data will be available under the entry.

Java 154

Java Cloud Traffic Virtualization 154

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Another benefit of optimized voice search is increased traffic and conversions.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Authorization and Access Control In RabbitMQ, authorization dictates the operations a user may execute on given virtual hosts. Virtual Hosts and Resource Permissions In RabbitMQ, virtual hosts craft distinct isolated environments that upgrade security and resource segregation by restricting inter-vhost communication.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Also be aware that the extraction where it says “between TSN= and ;”: Request Attributes extract meta data on a request level such as Test Step Name, Virtual User Id …. SimpleNodeJsService.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic. Experienced MySQL admins could tune MySQL to handle the heavy traffic loads for more popular sites.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. Pros: Svelte makes most things native rather than virtualized.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. Developing a NIC that supported single root IO virtualization allowed us to give each VM its own hardware virtualized NIC.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. How Availability Zones have changed over the years.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 110

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98