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. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. The unfortunate reality is that software outages are common.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. It’s easy to modify and adjust these dashboards as required, select the most important metrics, or just change the splitting of charts when too much data is presented.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination. But gaining observability of distributed environments, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containerized application deployments, presents formidable challenges.

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although DORA helps banking and financial institutions prevent, respond to, and recover from critical cybersecurity incidents, DORA compliance could present many hurdles for financial institutions. Dynatrace Security Analytics can also improve the effectiveness and efficiency of threat hunts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. A feature that enables you to present log data in a filterable table that is easy to work with. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 262

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Data visualization : how to present, explore and interpret observability data from serverless functions intuitively, clearly, and holistically?

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Improved customer experience.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Traffic 186

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. predict and prevent security breaches and outages. Website monitoring.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. These retail-business processes must work together efficiently to orchestrate customer satisfaction: Inventory management ensures you can anticipate and meet dynamic customer demand. Multi-channel logistics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

On the other hand, when one is interested only in simple additive metrics like total page views or average price of conversion, it is obvious that raw data can be efficiently summarized, for example, on a daily basis or using simple in-stream counters. A group of several such sketches can be used to process range query. bits per unique value.

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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 31, 2024

Problems application The Problems application automatically identifies issues, collects the context behind them, and presents their root cause and impacts in a single view. It allows users to chain commands together to filter, manipulate, and analyze data efficiently. Dynatrace RUM shows the user impact of the CrowdStrike outage 5.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 189

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

In order to understand, reduce and optimize your systems, I recommend you watch my presentation on Top Performance Challenges in Distributed Architectures , where I highlight the most common performance problems: Too many roundtrips between services, e.g. N+1 Query Pattern. I assume most of you have distributed systems that are very complex.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. Partnering to Productize Security Jose & Arthur (Netflix Cloud Gateway): The Cloud Gateway team develops and operates Netflix’s “ Front Door ”.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Zittrain points out that they “traffic in byzantine patterns with predictive utility, not neat articulations of relationships between cause and effect.” In the next blog, we’ll look at a few examples of how intellectual debt might begin to accrue unnoticed, with an eye towards its impact on IT efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 21, 2024

It presents a wide array of powerful management features that allow users to fine-tune their MongoDB hosting according to their exact requirements, facilitating an efficient and strategically aligned navigational experience. By adopting proactive management and future-readiness, your databases can remain secure and efficient.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management. More modern tools can provide runtime insights into certain platforms, like Kubernetes or containers, but are still limited in their ability to detect which libraries are actually used vs. those that are present, but unused.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. These are allocated across multiple Redis cluster nodes. Visualize it as a relay race.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes. These systems enable vast amounts of data to be spread over multiple nodes, allowing for simultaneous access and boosting processing efficiency.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. A sneak peek into Hydrogen’s online integrated development environment. Large preview ).

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance. Tinder is one example of a customer that is using the flexible schema model of DynamoDB to achieve developer efficiency. The opposite is true.

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