The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This dual-path approach leverages Kafkas capability for low-latency streaming and Icebergs efficient management of large-scale, immutable datasets, ensuring both real-time responsiveness and comprehensive historical data availability. million impression events globally every second, with each event approximately 1.2KB in size.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Lastly, monitoring and maintaining system health within a virtual environment, which includes efficient troubleshooting and issue resolution, can pose a significant challenge for IT teams.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. While clustering across wide-area networks (WANs) is discouraged due to latency issues, leased links can mitigate some connectivity challenges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination. This model supports both simple and complex data models, balancing flexibility and efficiency.

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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? The stakes are even higher when ensuring every title launches flawlessly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Continuous Instrumentation of the Linux Scheduler To ensure the reliability of our workloads that depend on low latency responses, we instrumented the run queue latency for each container, which measures the time processes spend in the scheduling queue before being dispatched to the CPU. For this purpose, we chose the eBPF ring buffer.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. In modern production environments, there are numerous hardware and software hooks that can be adjusted to improve latency and throughput.

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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. Dynatrace automation and AI-powered monitoring of your entire IT landscape help you to engage your Citrix management tools where they are most efficient. Citrix VDA.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

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. The baseline configuration—the initial sizing of microservices—only provided an efficiency of 0.29 below 500ms) and error rates (e.g.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis. The OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) plays a critical role in this framework by standardizing how systems format and transport telemetry data, ensuring that data is interoperable and transmitted efficiently. Employ efficient sampling.

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DZone

AUGUST 20, 2023

Slow performance, or high latency, can lead to frustrated users and lost revenue for the organization. From a high level, application latency refers to the delay between the user's request and the application's response. App performance also impacts overall efficiency.

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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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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2023

Though we are not worried about computing resources, the latency becomes an overhead. SOAP was bulky, and REST is a trimmed-down version but we need an even more efficient framework. With the increase in the size of data, we have activities like serializing, deserializing, and transportation costs added to it.

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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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DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

It involves a combination of techniques and best practices aimed at reducing latency, improving user experience, and increasing the overall efficiency of the system. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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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

MAY 23, 2024

Such frameworks support software engineers in building highly scalable and efficient applications that process continuous data streams of massive volume. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively.

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DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

In order to gain insight into these problems, we gather a range of metrics and logs to monitor the utilization of system resources such as CPU, memory, and application-specific latencies. It is worth noting that this data collection process does not impact the performance of the application.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The agency can also efficiently compare the newest version of Easytravel against previous versions of the software with regression testing facilitated by SRG. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience. The failure threshold is anything above 60ms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1. There is no best garbage collector.

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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. It was very efficient, but it had a set job size, requiring manual intervention if we wanted to horizontally scale it, and it required manual intervention when rolling out a new version.

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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

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

JUNE 7, 2023

One of the crucial success factors for delivering cost-efficient and high-quality AI-agent services, following the approach described above, is to closely observe their cost, latency, and reliability. So, whenever the latency of the model response degrades, or the model request returns an error, Davis AI automatically detects it.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making. However, managing distributed workloads across various edge nodes in a scalable and efficient manner is a complex challenge.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. What is Edgar?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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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. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. Dynatrace news.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. In order to do that, the storage cloud object is modeled as a number of fixed size parts.

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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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