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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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Its design prioritizes high availability and efficient data transfer with minimal overhead, making it a practical choice for handling real-time data pipelines and distributed event processing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

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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. It is almost a part of the wider performance engineering portrait, concentrating on performance glitches in the architecture and design of any software.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience. It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2020

By investigating these questions, we distilled these two pain points: Following definition of application detection rules, some users don’t see traffic from the correct URLs in the corresponding Dynatrace applications (i.e., the application profiles that are listed on the Applications page).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. The health-based load balancing of incoming traffic automatically redirects traffic to healthy nodes. In case one zone goes down, the traffic gets redirected to the remaining Cassandra nodes. Availability Zone) outages.

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

The Apollo router is a powerful routing solution designed to replace the GraphQL Gateway. With its ability to handle large amounts of traffic and complex data, the Apollo router is quickly becoming a popular choice among developers seeking a reliable and efficient routing solution.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. High demand Sudden spikes in demand can overwhelm systems that are not designed to handle such loads, leading to outages.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). Hacker News).

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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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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. 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.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A highly available system is designed to meet the gold standard KPI of five 9s (99.999%). Application usage and traffic. Application usage and traffic monitors the number of users accessing your system and informs many other metrics, including system uptime. App availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region. Reduce cross-region traffic for Log Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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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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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. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

for streaming traffic. The TLS protocol is designed to provide a secure channel between two peers by providing tools and methods to achieve the above properties. handshake was not designed to protect the integrity of the entire handshake. Now we support TLS 1.3 for safer and faster experiences. What is TLS?

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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.

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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 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Security analytics solutions are designed to handle modern applications that rely on dynamic code and microservices. Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications.

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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. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. Dynatrace Operator for OneAgent, API monitoring, routing, and more.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns. For example, you can detect traffic from outside your network going to a server that normally receives traffic from internal servers. Vulnerability management benefits: Reduce your overall exploit and attack risk.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 241

DZone

APRIL 29, 2020

We even validated whether there was an increase in the traffic volume, which was attributed to this traffic volume spike. But there was no increase in the traffic volume as well.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds.

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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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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. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work. We knew that many customers already had iPhones so the traffic ramp up for the new service was extremely fast. I wrote the foreword for Kirstens book Irresistable APIs , and recommend anyone designing an API should read it.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. Dynatrace supports GDPR compliance by design.

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