The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 224

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 224

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts. How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 175

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 175

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Database operations must continue without disruption to ensure high availability, even when faced with hardware or software failures. Tailor the configurations within this file to align with your particular network setups and needs. Network Isolation Tests Sl. Quorum behavior can be enforced in PAF. Miscellaneous Tests Sl.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 195

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Dynatrace gave them automated insights into traffic behavior and the impact of queued up requests to the end-users (up to 3s queue time). Infrastructure Optimization.

Cache 205

Cache Database Architecture Government 205

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

Cloud 234

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Open Source 234

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. For services, the gains were even more impressive.

Cache 260

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 260

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management. They enable real-time tracking and enhanced situational awareness for air traffic control and collision avoidance systems. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

IoT 223

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 223

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. IDS/IPS requirements. MPSM: First things first.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 26

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 26

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 134

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. The importance of the network.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). What is a private 5G network?

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 114

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis. What this chart summarizes is that.

AWS 99

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 99

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. During the winter holiday season, the use of the app increases by up to 300% and AWS allows them to seamlessly scale up to cope with the increase in traffic.

AWS 120

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 120

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 84

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 84

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

Efficiency 109

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 109

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Earth Networks recently launched a new lightning proximity feature for their popular WeatherBug app. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks.

Games 117

Games Scalability AWS Database 117

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

When persistent messages in RabbitMQ are encrypted, it ensures that even in the event of unsanctioned access to storage hardware, confidential information stays protected and secure. Limiting incoming connections exclusively to networks deemed trustworthy can boost the overall protection of your RabbitMQ server.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 125

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 125

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. Let’s take a look at the internals of the Asset Management Service.

Engineering 174

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 174

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 116

Innovation AWS Education Network 116

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

Performance 109

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

Cloud 104

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 104

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types. However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130