Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article provides an overview of Azure's load balancing options, encompassing Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door Service, and Azure Traffic Manager. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. For example: {“device_type”: “ios”}.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Events and alerts. Model topological relations and dependencies. SNMP observability.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Improved compliance A better understanding of data security across multiple applications and environments provides a unified view of events and information. This offers two advantages for compliance.

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Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Monitor your cloud OpenPipeline ™ is the Dynatrace platform data-handling solution designed to seamlessly ingest and process data from any source, regardless of scale or format. Furthermore, OpenPipeline is designed to collect and process data securely and in compliance with industry standards.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the Device Management Platform, this is achieved by having device updates be event-sourced through the control plane to the cloud so that NTS will always have the most up-to-date information about the devices available for testing. The RAE is configured to be effectively a router that devices under test (DUTs) are connected to.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. Incident detection and response In the event of a security incident, there is a well-defined incident response process to investigate and mitigate the issue.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

AWS 221

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 221

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security. Dynatrace enhances Fluent Bit’s log management by integrating observability signals like traces, events, and metrics, providing a complete view of cloud-native application performance.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian is designed for this practice; it allows development teams to define quality objectives in their code, which is validated throughout the delivery process before the code reaches production. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Reduce cross-region traffic for Log Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring. Dynatrace news. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The key components of automatic failover include the primary server for write operations, standby servers for backup, and a monitor node for health checks and coordination of failover events. In the event of a primary server failure, standby servers are prepared to assume control, which helps reduce system downtime.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database.

Database 206

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. The path over which data travels from Titus Job Coordinator to a Titus Gateway cache can be described as a sequence of event queues with different processing speeds: A message generated by the event source may be buffered at any stage.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

I went to the launch event, got an iPhone on day 1, and when Apple finally shipped their SDK in March 2008 I was in the first wave of people who signed up as an iOS developer. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work.

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C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. The ongoing and continuous tracking of network and service-level communication of pods in Kubernetes enables Dynatrace to easily discover any unintended egress traffic (i.e., Have ideas for further improvements?

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 133

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2023

DPS offers you flexibility to scale-up deployments during peak traffic events or to provide extra observability during high-stakes moments. In designing DPS, we’ve created pricing that is transparent and fair. Beyond the cloud, hourly pricing is also great for traditional and hybrid environments.

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Cloud Best Practices Traffic Infrastructure 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

By Arthur Gonigberg , Argha C Plaintext Past When Zuul was designed and developed , there was an inherent assumption that connections were effectively free, given we weren’t using mutual TLS (mTLS). It’s built on top of Netty , using event loops for non-blocking execution of requests, one loop per core.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 178

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

Design 125

Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 125

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 236

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Frequencies of 100 most frequent elements can be estimated with 4% precision using Count-Min Sketch structure that uses about 48KB (12k integer counters, based on the experimental result), assuming that data is skewed in accordance with Zipfian distribution that models well natural texts, many types of web events and network traffic.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Lambda is Amazon’s event-driven, functions-as-a-service (FaaS) compute service that runs code when triggered for application and back-end services.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We also want to leverage kernel PMC events to more directly optimize for minimal cache noise.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

These data scientists design and execute tests to support learning agendas and contribute to decision making. The forums where these debates take place are broadly accessible, ensuring a diverse set of viewpoints provide feedback on test designs and results, and weigh in on decisions.

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Education Innovation Testing Programming 245

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By unifying all relevant events in Grail, teams could identify suspicious activity, then have the platform automatically trigger the steps to analyze those activities. By analyzing the data in Dynatrace Notebooks, the team discovered, “There is too much cross-availability-zone traffic,” Greifeneder recalled.

Innovation 246

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP) traffic flow (characterized by a 5-tuple on a per network interface basis) that occurs within an aggregation interval.

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Network Tuning AWS Traffic 154

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management. They enable real-time tracking and enhanced situational awareness for air traffic control and collision avoidance systems. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

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IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The challenge for clients is that each instance of the application runs on a Netflix member’s device and signals are derived from a firehose of events being sent by devices across the globe. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 206

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. With MongoDB deployments, failovers aren’t considered major events as they were with traditional database management systems. Testing Failover Behavior.

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