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

MARCH 29, 2024

Five of the most common include cluster instability, resource and cost management, security, observability, and stress on engineering teams. Engineering teams are overwhelmed with stuff to do.” You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Yet, many are confined to a brief temporal window due to constraints in serving latency or training costs. Key insights from this shiftinclude: A Data-Centric Approach : Shifting focus from model-centric strategies, which heavily rely on feature engineering, to a data-centric one.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

Three steps to set up hybrid Kubernetes observability Setting up hybrid Kubernetes observability involves a few straightforward steps to deploy Dynatrace into your environment, enabling effective instrumentation of both application and infrastructure nodes. The containers list as individual PaaS hosts after successful deployment.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

You can implement security and advance networking policies to all the communication across your infrastructure using Istio. You can use Istio to observe the performance and behavior of all your microservices in your infrastructure (see the image below). But another important feature of Istio is observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. SLOs aid decision making. SLOs promote automation. Define SLOs for each service.

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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. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables). Add your visualization to your dashboards for easy access and sharing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users. No infrastructure to maintain. Because cloud providers own and manage back-end infrastructure, local IT teams aren’t responsible for ongoing maintenance and upgrades. Optimizes resources.

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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.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. System Components. Optimization.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run. What is a Lambda serverless function? Return larger payload sizes.

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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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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

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. For Premium HA, this has been extended from 10 ms latency (in the same network region) to around 100 ms network latency due to asynchronous data replication between regions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. KeyValue is an abstraction over the storage engine itself, which allows us to choose the best storage engine that meets our SLO needs.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Reduced latency. Investing in automation and tooling to avoid toil. SRE vs DevOps?

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While clustering across wide-area networks (WANs) is discouraged due to latency issues, leased links can mitigate some connectivity challenges. Keeping queues short minimizes latency and enhances the overall efficiency of message delivery in RabbitMQ. Keeping queues short maintains a responsive and efficient RabbitMQ setup.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2024

Delivering financial services requires a complex landscape of applications, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors. This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. 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. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. An application could rely on dozens or even hundreds of Lambdas and other infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics. We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change.

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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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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. reliability situations, where continuity of service is essential, with redundant elements continuously in-service, such as with airplane engines. This ensures reliability.

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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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