The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For example, in order to enhance our user experience, one online application fetches subscribers’ preferences data to recommend movies and TV shows. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Let’s look at an example of a Bulldozer YAML configuration (Figure 3).

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Example call graph in Edgar In some cases, the question we’re answering is, “What’s happening right now??” Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. Searching for key evidence becomes like digging for a needle in a group of haystacks.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

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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

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. Building APIs (for example, Amazon API Gateway ). Creating a prototype (for example, on Azure ).

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DZone

JUNE 4, 2024

Not being familiar with the basics of queuing theory will prevent you from understanding the relations between latency and throughput , high-level capacity estimations, and workload optimization. Let's see some common examples from an average dude's vocabulary (like me). Queues Are Everywhere!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations. Video downscaling is the most pertinent example herein, which tailors our encoding to screen resolutions of different devices and optimizes picture quality under varying network conditions. A visual example is shown below.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

ReactDOM, for example, ends up 27% smaller when compressed with maximum-level Brotli compression (11) as opposed to with maximum-level Gzip (9). This is because file-size is only one aspect of web performance, and whatever the file-size is, the resource is still sat on top of a lot of other factors and constants—latency, packet loss, etc.

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