The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

Traffic 349

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 349

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! Hence, we started down the path of alert evaluation via real-time streaming metrics. This has proven to be valuable towards reducing Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).

Storage 300

Storage Cache Metrics Database 300

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Once you deploy the Dynatrace extension, Dynatrace ingests your Cassandra metrics and analyzes them in context with the entire stack. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables). Seeing the value.

Azure 242

Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 242

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

Lambda 235

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 235

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

Latency 243

Latency Cache Java Traffic 243

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. can all provide valuable insights. But what else is TTFB?

Latency 271

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 271

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

Metrics 130

Metrics Java Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

Metrics 130

Metrics Java Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources.

Cache 215

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 215

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 233

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring focuses on watching specific metrics. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. For example, we can actively watch a single metric for changes that indicate a problem — this is monitoring.

Monitoring 233

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 233

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

Latency 242

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Deployment: Cache To produce business value, all our Metaflow projects are deployed to work with other production systems. In other cases, it is more convenient to share the results via a low-latency API. Metaflow Hosting caches the response, so Amber can fetch it after a while.

Systems 238

Systems Media Cache Open Source 238

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.

AWS 259

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 259

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. Integration with Amazon CloudWatch gives customers visibility into key performance metrics, further simplifying system management.

Cache 101

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 101

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Data Placement. Read/Write scalability.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Deploying your application and database on the same VPC also provides the lowest possible latency path. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Learn more.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

In-Memory Storage Engine, as the name suggests, stores data in memory for faster performance and lower latencies. It uses a filesystem cache and write-ahead log for crash recovery. MongoDB makes use of both the filesystem cache and the WiredTiger internal cache. Compaction operation defragments data files & indexes.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

Scalability 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

Here’s how the same test performed when running Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14 on these same servers: Queries: reads Queries: writes Queries: other Queries: total Transactions Latency (95th) MySQL (A) 1584986 1645000 245322 3475308 122277 20137.61 MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g.,

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Prediction serving latency matters. Booking.com estimate the value delivered by a model through randomized controlled trials which measure the impact on business metrics. clicks) that fails to convert into the desired business metric (e.g. clicks) that fails to convert into the desired business metric (e.g.

Latency 102

Latency Metrics Cache Design 102

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. Web browsers expose a global Performance Timeline API to inspect details about specific metrics/events that have happened during the page lifecycle. Any server or proxy can add this header to the request to provide inspectable data.

Servers 95

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 109

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 114

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 114

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

These devices feature: Eight slow, big.LITTLE ARM cores (A75+A55, or A73+A53) built on last-generation processes with very little cache. Since at least 2017, I've grown increasingly frustrated at the way we collectively think about the tradeoffs in frontend metrics. 4GiB of RAM. Qualcomm has some 'splainin to do.

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. But what happens when it doesn't?

Servers 60

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 60

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Cache-Headers missing? Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences.

Google 72

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 72

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?" Periods (e.g.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94