The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. We then calculate the run queue latency by simply subtracting the timestamps.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Text-based records of events and activities generated by applications and infrastructure components. Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis. Capture critical performance indicators such as request latency, error rates, and resource usage. Employ efficient sampling.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. The optimization goal was to improve the application efficiency, that is to improve the ratio between service throughput and cloud costs while not increasing the application latency (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. OneAgent: Citrix infrastructure performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance. It delivers vital enterprise applications to thousands of users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins. This is particularly important as we build out new functionality that relies on Pushy; a strong, stable infrastructure foundation allows our partners to continue to build on top of Pushy with confidence.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. In this benchmark, we measure MySQL throughput in terms of queries per second (QPS) to measure our query efficiency. Read-Intensive Latency Benchmark. Balanced Workload Latency Benchmark.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. How do we apply neural networks at scale efficiently? In order to have a viable solution, we took several steps to improve efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. In this example, unlike latency, the remaining three signals did not receive a “pass.”

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Dynatrace is a launch partner in support of AWS Lambda Response Streaming , a new capability enabling customers to improve the efficiency and performance of their Lambda functions. Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. Bulldozer abstracts the underlying infrastructure on how the data moves.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Observability across the full technology stack gives teams comprehensive, real-time insight into the behavior, performance, and health of applications and their underlying infrastructure.

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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. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. Data warehouses.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

As organizations turn to artificial intelligence for operational efficiency and product innovation in multicloud environments, they have to balance the benefits with skyrocketing costs associated with AI. The good news is AI-augmented applications can make organizations massively more productive and efficient. Use containerization.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Such frameworks support software engineers in building highly scalable and efficient applications that process continuous data streams of massive volume. Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers. This significantly increases event latency.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dynatrace, in tandem with the Nutanix extension, simplifies performance monitoring and makes issue identification and resolution more efficient. By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. What is ITOps?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

.” While Kubernetes’ usability and ubiquity make it the ideal environment for cloud-based production tasks, operational oversight and resource management challenges can frustrate DevOps efforts to drive efficiency. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Delivering financial services requires a complex landscape of applications, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Dynatrace Security Analytics can also improve the effectiveness and efficiency of threat hunts. Here are some of the key hurdles that institutions need to overcome: Complex digital ecosystems.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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