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

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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

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.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. System Components. Fetching User Feed. Optimization.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. Read-Intensive Latency Benchmark. Balanced Workload Latency Benchmark.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure. Performance monitoring Dynatrace can collect performance metrics from Nutanix clusters, including latency, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and network throughput.

Virtualization 246

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Data management.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical. Issue remediation.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

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.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI requires more compute and storage. Training AI data is resource-intensive and costly, again, because of increased computational and storage requirements. As a result, AI observability supports cloud FinOps efforts by identifying how AI adoption spikes costs because of increased usage of storage and compute resources.

Strategy 288

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 288

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

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. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

Engineering 262

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 262

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. Bulldozer abstracts the underlying infrastructure on how the data moves.

Latency 252

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 252

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While clustering across wide-area networks (WANs) is discouraged due to latency issues, leased links can mitigate some connectivity challenges. Keeping queues short minimizes latency and enhances the overall efficiency of message delivery in RabbitMQ. Keeping queues short maintains a responsive and efficient RabbitMQ setup.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

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.

Website 245

Website Latency Traffic Virtualization 245

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is particularly important as we build out new functionality that relies on Pushy; a strong, stable infrastructure foundation allows our partners to continue to build on top of Pushy with confidence. KeyValue is an abstraction over the storage engine itself, which allows us to choose the best storage engine that meets our SLO needs.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

Storage 97

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 97

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. There is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage. Interact with data intuitively and easily and benefit from immediate, AI-supported insights.

Performance 290

Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 290

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. What does IT operations do?

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

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. Once teams solidify infrastructure and application performance, security is the subsequent priority.

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

Software 214

Software Software Programming Metrics 214

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " SoCC’19. "Narrowing Shredder’s implementation is built on top of Seastar.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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.

Latency 164

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 164

VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This proximity reduces latency and enables real-time decision-making. Edge computing will process and filter this data before sending only the most relevant insights to the cloud, making large-scale IIoT deployments more feasible and reducing cloud storage and bandwidth costs.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Latency Automotive 52

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. There is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage.

Analytics 304

Analytics AWS DevOps Cloud 304

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We’re proud to introduce AWS Outposts support, allowing you to manage cloud infrastructure on-premises while maintaining full AWS integration. Additionally, we’ve added the Philadelphia AWS Local Zone , helping to reduce latency for customers operating in the eastern U.S.

Latency 130

Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.

AWS 305

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. As a result, teams can gain full visibility into their applications and multicloud infrastructure. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources.

Artificial Intelligence 245

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 245

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive relies on a data store that will be the persistent storage layer for assets, and a metadata store which will provide a relevant mapping from the file system hierarchy to the data store entities. Finally, once the encoded copy is prepared, this copy can be persisted by Netflix Drive to a persistent storage tier in the cloud.

Media 182

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 182

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

fact logging client, ETL, query client, and data quality infrastructure. The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

Storage 195

Storage Design Scalability Latency 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of digital business initiatives will require infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to include digital experience metrics in their business reporting. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. This requires monitoring of the upstream infrastructure, applications, or platform supporting those data streams.

DevOps 272

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

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.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173