Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Its partitioned log architecture supports both queuing and publish-subscribe models, allowing it to handle large-scale event processing with minimal latency. Apache Kafka uses a custom TCP/IP protocol for high throughput and low latency. Apache Kafka, designed for distributed event streaming, maintains low latency at scale.

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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. In recommendation systems, context windows during inference are often limited to hundreds of eventsnot due to model capability but because these services typically require millisecond-level latency.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

An application example is a session store recording recent actions. We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. Application example: photo tagging; add a tag is an update, but most operations are to read tags. Conclusion.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

For example, organizations typically utilize only 60% of their security tools. Re-indexing data and rehydrating it from cold storage for incident investigation and forensics causes query latency and additional management overhead and cost.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. When we talk about downloading files, we—generally speaking—have two things to consider: latency and bandwidth. It gets worse.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. In Pic 1 below, we have an example of an application which is used by editors to review their work. We don’t allow incompatible changes, for example, users can not change the data type of a property.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency. During Read-Intensive Workloads, ScaleGrid manages to achieve up to 3 times higher throughput and averages 66% better latency compared to Azure Database.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. In this example, “hipstershop.currency,” “hipstershop.checkout” and “hipstershop.cart” are also part of this critical path. In this example, we’re creating an SLO with a target of 98% of our requests without errors. Reliability.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance. Caching is a critical technique for optimizing application performance by temporarily storing frequently accessed data, allowing for faster retrieval during subsequent requests.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

For example, in the US, we distribute nodes across New York 3, New York 2 and New York 1. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency. ms round trip time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy. Analytical Insights Additionally, impression history offers insightful information for addressing a number of platform-related analytics queries.

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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? Some examples: Why is title X not showing on the Coming Soon row for a particular member?

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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.

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Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Quality gates examples in Dynatrace Quality gates hold much promise for organizations looking to release better software faster. The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. Performance typically addresses response times or latency aspects and contributes to the four golden signals. This is what Dynatrace captures as response time.

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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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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Kubernetes microservices applications are a striking example of the complexity of today’s modern application and IT stacks. To illustrate how Akamas approach works for Kubernetes microservices applications the webinar, the example of Google Online Boutique is used during the webinar. The Akamas approach. lower than 2%.).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

One of the crucial success factors for delivering cost-efficient and high-quality AI-agent services, following the approach described above, is to closely observe their cost, latency, and reliability. Our example dashboard below visualizes OpenAI token consumption.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. For example, if some fields in the responses are timestamps, those will differ.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. This increase is clearly correlated with the increased response latencies. Soaring number of active connections.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis. For example, a company using a log aggregation tool can use OpenTelemetry to gain additional trace data without disrupting its setup, thus enabling a gradual and smooth transition from legacy systems to modern observability. Contextualize data.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

From the customer perspective, mobile devices have become the singular touchpoint between businesses and users, for example, the new storefront, office, and customer support line. For example, an app that does not crash often but is frequently slow from a user’s perspective is providing a poor user experience.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

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. For example, a video encoding service is built of components that are scale-agnostic: API, workflow, and functions.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. This will not only reduce the overall latency in displaying the user-feeds to users but will also prevent re-computation of user-feeds. Fetching User Feed. Optimization. Who is the user a close follower of?

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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. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For example, it is OK to send writes through one instance, and do reads from another one with full data read consistency guarantees. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution. Kubernetes is a good example here.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. For example, the mobile device talked to an API gateway, and that team was not responsible for all the details of the back-end systems. In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. Example 2: Four golden signals.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

In the following example, Dynatrace has automatically alerted on problems with the inventory service, highlighting that some of the pods are not yet in a ready state. Whether an issue is specific to a Linux node, a Windows node, or a cross-platform service, AI-driven insights from Dynatrace enable quick root cause analysis and resolution.

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Performance Java Operating System Infrastructure 147

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? In this post, I’ll lay out five foundational service level objective examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. For example, request collapsing , edge-side includes , etc.). But what else is TTFB?

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I’m going to use an example taken straight from Bootstrap’s own Getting Started. What Am I Talking About?

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Regular Dynatrace Managed deployments can work seamlessly when a maximum of two nodes are down at a time and the network has low latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. For example, is it more correct for an array to be empty or null, or is it just noise? The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system.

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services. This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem.

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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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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

For example, the Dynatrace Data Explorer enables you to do the following: Analyze multidimensional metrics , whether built into Dynatrace or ingested from other sources like Azure Monitor. With the Dynatrace Data Explorer, you can easily analyze metrics, such as client read/write latency by Cassandra nodes and disk space usage by keyspaces.

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