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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

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. We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more. Those are prime candidates for their own spans.

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How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data. Dynatrace gave them automated insights into traffic behavior and the impact of queued up requests to the end-users (up to 3s queue time).

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

They don’t currently have a CDN , yet they do experience high traffic levels from all over the globe: Being geographically close to your audience is the biggest step in the right direction. Interestingly, 304 responses are still a form of redirect: the server is redirecting your visitor back to their HTTP cache.

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