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.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. 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 Akamas approach.

Latency 246

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 246

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.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

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.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

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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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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. No explicit tuning has been required to achieve these results.

Latency 237

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 237

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.

Latency 264

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 264

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.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

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.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

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.

Latency 252

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 252

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. the retry success probability) and compute cost efficiency (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

Tuning 217

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 217

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.

Cloud 242

Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

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.

Serverless 235

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 235

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.”

Engineering 264

Engineering DevOps Operating System Cloud 264

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

However, scaling up software development requires more tools along the software product lifecycle, which must be configured promptly and efficiently. Efficient environment configuration at scale One of software engineers’ most significant challenges is managing the numerous tools and technologies required for the software product lifecycle.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 246

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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Processing Media Latency Innovation 238

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1 latency is the number one reason consumers abandon mobile sites. Fine-tuning the service-level indicators that make up quality gates will improve with the help of upcoming features. Organizations can feel the impact of even a minor roadblock in the user experience.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. Observability challenges in serverless applications can be therefore categorized into: Data collection : how to collect metrics, logs and traces from serverless functions efficiently, reliably, and consistently?

Serverless 246

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Using a connection pool in each module is hardly efficient: Even with a relatively small number of modules, and a small pool size in each, you end up with a lot of server processes. It creates yet another component that must be maintained, fine tuned for your workload, security patched often, and upgraded as required.

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Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

Traffic 285

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 246

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.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs).

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Most of the business views created on top of the Iceberg tables can tolerate a few minutes of latency. Please stay tuned! Dehghani, Zhamak.

Big Data 257

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 257

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. However, to ensure a level playing field regarding connection handling, we tuned ScaleGrid’s instances to allow 830 connections. </p>

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

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).

Processing 219

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Learn how RabbitMQ can boost your system’s efficiency and reliability in these practical scenarios. Understanding RabbitMQ as a Message Broker RabbitMQ is a powerful message broker that enables applications to communicate by efficiently directing messages from producers to their intended consumers.

IoT 130

IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., Video quality has matured in Cosmos and we are invested in making VQS more flexible and efficient. VQS is called using the measureQuality endpoint.

Media 178

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 178

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.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

What we see here, though, is the emergence of the first iterations of the LLM SDLC: Were not yet changing our embeddings, fine-tuning, or business logic; were not using unit tests, CI/CD, or even a serious evaluation framework, but were building, deploying, monitoring, evaluating, and iterating! We tested both retrieval quality (e.g.,

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00.

Cache 139

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Inside, you will learn: Why you should upgrade MongoDB Staying with outdated MongoDB versions can expose you to critical security vulnerabilities, suboptimal performance, and missed opportunities for efficiency. Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 111

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. This solution offers a streamlined method for managing databases across a variety of platforms, ensuring efficient operation.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance. Efficient Queries.

Games 106

Games Scalability Database Retail 106