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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Akamas vision is that only an autonomous optimization approach powered by AI can effectively enable performance engineers, SREs, and architects to identify the best configurations that ensure maximum service performance and resilience, at the lowest possible cost and at business speed. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 216

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit. or above for the checkout process.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 188

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. Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed. Automated issue resolution.

Analytics 213

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

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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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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 management.

Artificial Intelligence 221

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 221

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup. Memory Efficiency Compared When it comes to memory efficiency, Redis and Memcached have different strengths.

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Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

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. The overall ProRes video processing speed is increased from 50GB/Hour to 300GB/Hour.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 240

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.”

Engineering 260

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 260

VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

Real-time data platforms often utilize technologies like streaming data processing , in-memory databases , and advanced analytics to handle large volumes of data at high speeds. Improved operational efficiency Real-time data platforms enhance operational efficiency by providing timely insights and automating processes.

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IoT Latency Traffic Logistics 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. What is DevOps?

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VoltDB

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read on to explore the top five AI use cases for IIoT, and how AI and IIoT, when combined with Volt Active Data, unlock efficiencies, enhance safety, and drive cost savings. Preventative Maintenance Challenge: Industrial equipment failures can lead to costly downtime, impacting productivity and revenue.

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Energy Logistics Transportation Latency 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Reduced latency. Efficiency. Knowing where to start.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 196

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

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Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

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.”

Engineering 187

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 187

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. provides higher compression rates.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 113

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Our experiments show an impressive level of both performance and cost efficiency.

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Storage Performance AWS Media 199

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 47

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency. As seen below, SVT-AV1 demonstrates 16.5%

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Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 157

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 195

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We will show how we are building a clean and efficient incremental processing solution (IPS) by using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg. As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. past 3 hours or 10 days).

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Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 215

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. Adding application security to development and operations workflows increases efficiency. This is the number of failures that affect users’ ability to use an application by the total time in service. Performance.

Artificial Intelligence 215

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 215

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

Smart manufacturers are always looking for ways to decrease operating expenses, increase overall efficiency, reduce downtime, and maximize production. Reduced costs Intelligent manufacturing reduces costs by optimizing resource allocation, minimizing waste, and managing energy efficiently.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

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?

Latency 298

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. Full-stack observability helps DevOps teams quickly identify potential issues in the CI/CD pipeline , fixing problems with greater speed and confidence. Why full-stack observability matters.

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DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 241

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics.

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Monitoring Mobile Latency Best Practices 191

Simform

JULY 13, 2022

AWS Lambda provides various benefits such as scalability, cost-efficiency, high availability, and more. But it also introduces cold starts and latency, decelerating your applications’ performance. This blog discusses how Lambda provisioned concurrency reduces cold starts and improves the speed and performance of your applications.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Performance 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Paul Reed, Clean Energy & Sustainability, AWS Solutions, Amazon Web Services SUS101 | Advancing sustainable AWS infrastructure to power AI solutions In this session, learn how AWS is committed to innovating with data center efficiency and lowering its carbon footprint to build a more sustainable business.

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AWS Energy Lambda Government 98

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

While Wi-Fi theoretically can achieve 5G-like speeds, it falls short in providing the consistent performance and reliability that 5G offers, including low latency, higher speeds, and increased bandwidth. Additionally, frequent handoffs between access points can lead to delays and connection drops.

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Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103