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 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As modern multicloud environments become more distributed and complex, having real-time insights into applications and infrastructure while keeping data residency in local markets is crucial. Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure allows enterprises to streamline deployment, gain critical insights, and automate manual processes. The result?

Azure 243

Azure Latency Infrastructure Cloud 243

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 236

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 236

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

Engineering 193

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 193

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. 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.

Latency 246

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The voice service then constructs a message for the device and places it on the message queue, which is then processed and sent to Pushy to deliver to the device. The previous version of the message processor was a Mantis stream-processing job that processed messages from the message queue.

Latency 228

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 228

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.

Lambda 235

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 235

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

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. Vulnerability score: The highest vulnerability risk score for a process group.

Speed 220

Speed Software Software Latency 220

VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Edge computing involves processing data locally, near the source of data generation, rather than relying on centralized cloud servers. This proximity reduces latency and enables real-time decision-making. Edge computing can help by keeping sensitive data processing local to the facility, reducing exposure to external networks.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Latency Automotive 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely.

Analytics 214

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 214

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. 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. SLOs improve software quality.

Software 277

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 277

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.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. Dynatrace Davis ® AI will process logs automatically, independent of the technique used for ingestion. Interact with data intuitively and easily and benefit from immediate, AI-supported insights.

Performance 259

Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 259

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems.

Engineering 204

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 204

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.

Azure 242

Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 242

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. How does Dynatrace help?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 228

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

Best Practices 233

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 233

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Latency 189

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 189

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.

Serverless 233

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 233

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? 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. Read the complete test methodology. It gets worse.

Cache 312

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 312

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Delivering financial services requires a complex landscape of applications, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors. For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards. Integration with existing processes.

Best Practices 277

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 277

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 232

Systems Media Cache Open Source 232

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

Cache 216

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 216

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing ! The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. This is ideal for delivering images of any size with low latency regardless of where the user is located. No commitment: Scale up and down anytime and only pay for the images processed.

Processing 78

Processing Storage Latency Servers 78

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key features of RabbitMQ, such as message acknowledgments, complex routing, and asynchronous processing, contribute to system reliability and performance. Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering 260

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 260

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Full stack observability with the Dynatrace Hyper-V extension Use Dynatrace for deeper insights into the Microsoft ecosystem with the new Hyper-V extension; it provides crucial virtualization layer characteristics for Windows infrastructure observability.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 227

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. What is ITOps?

Artificial Intelligence 216

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 216

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. 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.

Best Practices 203

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Advanced AI applications using OpenAI services don’t just forward user input to OpenAI models; they also require client-side pre- and post-processing. It shows critical SLOs for latency and availability, as well as the most important OpenAI generative AI service metrics, such as response time, error count, and the overall number of requests.

Monitoring 174

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 174

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key Takeaways A hybrid cloud platform combines private and public cloud providers with on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, secure, cost-effective IT environment that supports scalability, innovation, and rapid market response. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

DZone

AUGUST 11, 2022

They address the primary use cases for the organization’s products or support its underlying vital infrastructures, such as a product search service for an e-commerce site, a content posting service for a social media app, or a payment processing framework. Tier 1 services are critical to a company’s profitability.

Social Media 130

Social Media Media Latency Website 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

” The Dynatrace Kubernetes app also provides process ownership data, ensuring information is directed to the right team and root causes are addressed. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.” “We can see that one node has memory pressure. It’s using 1.5

Engineering 239

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For instance, in a Kubernetes environment, if an application fails, logs in context not only highlight the error alongside corresponding log entries but also provide correlated logs from surrounding services and infrastructure components. Petabyte per day and tenant; this will soon increase to one Petabyte per day and tenant. Figure 11.

Analytics 248

Analytics AWS DevOps Cloud 248

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The Serverless Process. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. The average request is handled, processed, and returned quickly. Services scale to meet demand.

Serverless 246

Serverless Efficiency Lambda AWS 246