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? Using the source of truth: Logs serve as a reliable source of truth by providing a comprehensive record of system events.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

They need event-driven automation that not only responds to events and triggers but also analyzes and interprets the context to deliver precise and proactive actions. These initial automation endeavors paved the way for greater advancements, leading to the next evolution of event-driven automation.

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DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

In today’s world, companies often find themselves grappling with unpredictable surges in workloads, especially during pivotal events. This poses a significant challenge for businesses since miscalculations can lead to latency, lost customers, and significant financial losses, even as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render.

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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.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. Let’s assume a sequence of events E?…E??, of the data.

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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 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. So how can teams start implementing SLOs? This telemetry data serves as the basis for establishing meaningful SLOs.

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Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 17, 2018

To accomplish this, Uber relies heavily on making data-driven decisions at every level, from forecasting rider demand during high traffic events to identifying and addressing bottlenecks … The post Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The Workflows screenshot below shows that a task is triggered by a change event related to the application, execution of the guardians, and final aggregation of the results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the Device Management Platform, this is achieved by having device updates be event-sourced through the control plane to the cloud so that NTS will always have the most up-to-date information about the devices available for testing. The RAE is configured to be effectively a router that devices under test (DUTs) are connected to.

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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 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. While this empowers teams to frequently deliver new features, the overall business, security, and quality objectives must be maintained.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With request tracing and additional data from logs, events, metadata, and analysis, Edgar is able to show the flow of a request through our distributed system?—?what Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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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. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets. For simpler use cases, it also represents flat key-value Maps (e.g.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Serverless applications are composed of event-driven functions that run on demand in response to triggers from various sources, such as HTTP requests, messages, or timers. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. An application is part of an ecosystem that can be subtly influenced by property changes or radically altered by region-wide events.

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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 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

The screenshot below displays a workflow that listens for a deployment event of the easytrade service in the production stage. The validation process is automated based on events that occur, while the objectives’ configuration, which is validated by the Site Reliability Guardian , is stored in a separate file.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. MongoDB Sharding.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s built on top of Netty , using event loops for non-blocking execution of requests, one loop per core. To reduce contention among event loops, we created connection pools for each, keeping them completely independent. That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters.

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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. Change Data Capture(CDC) source connector reads from studio applications’ database transaction logs and emits the change events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. 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. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The other sections on that page (such as Disk analysis) provide further information and charts on topics such as available disk space, latency, dropped network packets, refused connections, and more. Most importantly, this information does not only cover the server side, but, thanks to RUM, also the client side and events in the browser.

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DZone

JULY 6, 2020

For external reasons, application traffic may surge and increase the pressure on the cluster. Through a chain reaction of events, the CPU load maxes out, out of memory errors occur, network latency increases, and disk writes and reads slow down. However, reality is often unsatisfactory.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Explainer flow is event-triggered by an upstream flow, such Model A, B, C flows in the illustration. A hugely important detail that often goes overlooked is event-triggering : it allows a team to integrate their Metaflow flows to surrounding systems upstream (e.g. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. There is a system that receives events on user visits from different internet sites. There is a system that monitors traffic and counts unique visitors for different criteria (visited site, geography, etc.)

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VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. RabbitMQ excels at managing asynchronous processing and reducing latency while distributing workloads effectively across the system. Within RabbitMQ’s ecosystem, bindings function as connectors between exchanges and queues.

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