The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

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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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Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

Currently, publicly available wifi hotspots are the preferred networks for video consumption, but poor network infrastructure also leads to unbearable video buffering and latency. However, OTT streaming delivery requires something faster than what the internet offers in terms of how chunks/fragments are supposed to flow.

Latency 147

Latency Internet Internet Network 147

DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With the rise of microservices architecture , there has been a rapid acceleration in the modernization of legacy platforms, leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly scalable, low-latency, and more responsive services. Why Use Spring WebFlux?

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Performance Latency Architecture Programming 287

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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Performance Java Operating System Infrastructure 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. OneAgent: Citrix infrastructure performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance. Citrix VDA.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2024

Putting an external cache in front of the database is commonly used to compensate for subpar latency stemming from various factors, such as inefficient database internals, driver usage, infrastructure choices, traffic spikes, and so on. This is a clear performance-oriented decision.

Cache 278

Cache Database Latency Traffic 278

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. 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.

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Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

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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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. We then calculate the run queue latency by simply subtracting the timestamps.

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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. Compare Latency. At a glance – TLDR.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

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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Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy 212

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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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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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

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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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 348

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.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

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.

Traffic 172

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 172

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. You’re going to suffer, too.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

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.

Latency 239

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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.

Latency 246

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 246

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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Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 246

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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Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 241

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Observability across the full technology stack gives teams comprehensive, real-time insight into the behavior, performance, and health of applications and their underlying infrastructure.

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DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 303

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. Now that we’ve compared throughput performance, let’s take a look at ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean latency for MySQL. Read-Intensive Latency Benchmark. Balanced Workload Latency Benchmark.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Text-based records of events and activities generated by applications and infrastructure components. Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis. Capture critical performance indicators such as request latency, error rates, and resource usage. Contextualize data.

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Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2021

But your infrastructure teams don’t see any issue on their AWS or Azure monitoring tools, your platform team doesn’t see anything too concerning in Kubernetes logging, and your apps team says there are green lights across the board. This scenario has become all too common as digital infrastructure has grown increasingly complex.

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Cloud Monitoring Latency Games 229

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency.

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Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. 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. In the image below, three downed nodes make an entire cluster unavailable.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. In this example, unlike latency, the remaining three signals did not receive a “pass.”

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Speed Software Software Latency 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Examples of observability data include metrics, logs, and traces which provide visibility into the app’s behavior and performance at different levels of the stack, including the application code, infrastructure, and network. Load time and network latency metrics. Issue remediation. Performance optimization. Capacity planning.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

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. Last mile latency deals with the disproportionate complexity toward the terminus of a connection.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

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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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 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. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 235

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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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 264

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. A Sticky Canary is an infrastructure experiment where customers are assigned either to a canary or baseline host for the entire duration of an experiment. Are things loading in time before the user loses interest?

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

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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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 245