The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers.

Latency 245

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 245

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. High latency or lack of responses. Soaring number of active connections.

Infrastructure 194

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 194

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. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

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

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

Latency 246

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command. The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above. Rewriting always comes with a risk, and it’s never the first solution we reach for, particularly when working with a system that’s in place and working well.

Latency 228

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 228

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Take your monitoring, data exploration, and storytelling to the next level with outstanding data visualization All your applications and underlying infrastructure produce vast volumes of data that you need to monitor or analyze for insights. Infrastructure health: A honeycomb chart is often used to visualize infrastructure health.

Latency 213

Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics 213

VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This proximity reduces latency and enables real-time decision-making. This shift will enable more autonomous and dynamic systems, reducing human intervention and enhancing efficiency. IIoT systems can use edge devices to ensure that sensitive operational data remains secure on-premises, thereby protecting critical infrastructure.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Latency Automotive 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Step 1 – Let Dynatrace analyze your infrastructure health in real-time. The Dynatrace all-in-one software intelligence platform gives your team real-time visibility into your underlying infrastructure —be it on bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or a hybrid solution. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

Systems 177

Systems DevOps Latency Azure 177

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. This significantly increases event latency.

Engineering 193

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 193

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. 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 211

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 211

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

Processing 234

Processing Media Latency Innovation 234

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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

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

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 220

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 217

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 227

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.

Software 277

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 277

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

Cache 216

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 216

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. Are things loading in time before the user loses interest?

Traffic 356

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 356

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

Latency 189

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 189

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key features of RabbitMQ, such as message acknowledgments, complex routing, and asynchronous processing, contribute to system reliability and performance. It is versatile enough for deployment in cloud-based infrastructures, on-premise data centers, or local setups, delivering a dependable and adaptable messaging framework.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

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 first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

Serverless 233

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 233

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Delivering financial services requires a complex landscape of applications, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Technical : Specifies technical requirements for ICT systems within an organization. helps you update your systems with the latest security standards to meet DORA requirements and reduce cyber risks.

Best Practices 277

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 277

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. Interact with data intuitively and easily and benefit from immediate, AI-supported insights. Trace your application Imagine a microservices architecture with hundreds of dependencies.

Performance 259

Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 259

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Fault tolerance The ability of a system to continue to be dependable (both available and reliable) in the presence of certain component or subsystem failures.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

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.

Artificial Intelligence 216

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 216

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. The old ground-initiated command-and-control style systems aren’t going to work for these finer-grained systems.

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 260

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 260

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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 206

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 206

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.” It’s not just a cost-reduction tool.

Engineering 239

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 239

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