The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 258

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Do we have the ability (process, frameworks, tooling) to quickly deploy new services and underlying IT infrastructure and if we do, do we know that we are not disrupting our end users? Dynatrace as a managed AWS workload, and as an option, have the network traffic to Dynatrace run over PrivateLink so that traffic never leaves AWS.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 221

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Regional traffic evacuations. Infrastructure change events. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring 216

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 216

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

Latency 237

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes.

Availability 43

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. So stay tuned! HTTP monitor locations use the same set of IP addresses as the browser monitoring locations.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The challenge of MTTD is having accurate knowledge of when an IT incident starts, which requires the ability to analyze and evaluate historical infrastructure KPI data. Application usage and traffic. Application usage and traffic monitors the number of users accessing your system and informs many other metrics, including system uptime.

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF.

Innovation 242

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 242

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

Network 153

Network Tuning AWS Traffic 153

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Stay tuned. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time.

Open Source 264

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 264

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. The KV data can be visualized at a high level, as shown in the diagram below, where three records are shown.

Latency 258

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 258

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

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. Full-stack and infrastructure monitoring modes. For more details, see Get started with infrastructure monitoring. Stay tuned for more details.

Java 182

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 182

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. Basically, what we call “first-generation” monitoring software.

Best Practices 217

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 217

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity. Distributed traces are the path of a transaction as it touches applications, services, and infrastructure from beginning to end.

Analytics 246

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 246

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

It enables them to adapt to user feedback swiftly, fine-tune feature releases, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while maintaining control and minimizing disruption. Change impact analysis is an indispensable process for effectively managing changes within an organization’s infrastructure and applications.

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version. Stay tuned for another blog post demonstrating how Dynatrace Cloud Automation addresses velocity, resilience, and scalability from a practitioner’s point of view. What’s next.

Cloud 242

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics 242

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

Traffic 164

Traffic Java Latency Google 164

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 220

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 220

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe

Storage 153

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 153

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Heading over to `Infrastructure` / `Hosts` in your dashboard, you should now have an entry for the host where you installed OneAgent. Monitoring garbage collection rates provides insights into memory management, helps detect memory leaks, assesses performance impact, facilitates tuning and optimization, and aids in capacity planning.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was created as a single monolithic system, where developers from various media teams in ET and our platform partner team Content Infrastructure and Solutions (CIS)¹ worked on the same codebase, building a single system that handled all media assets. The service also provides options that allow fine-tuning latency, throughput, etc.,

Processing 235

Processing Media Latency Innovation 235

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dynatrace knows critical details about the application in addition to the CVSS of a vulnerability; its real-user sessions, if it’s connected to a database, if it’s reachable from the public internet, if it has heavy or low traffic, and which other services it’s talking to. Stay tuned – this is only the start.

Cloud 306

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 306

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 218

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 218

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 204

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 204

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Stay tuned for more in 2022! Large preview ). Large preview ).

Cache 139

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. This can be detected during any canary deployment or blue/green traffic routing to a new version. Stay tuned for more release advice as well as automation provided by Dynatrace for release risk management and automated release decision making based on SLOs.

Metrics 231

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 231

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A bridge between two worlds To live such a life, we developed several “bridging” workflows, which allow us to route video quality traffic from Reloaded into Cosmos. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. In other words, how do we manage living a life in both worlds?

Media 176

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 176

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Mesh provides a drag-and-drop, self-service user interface for exploring sources and creating pipelines so that users can focus on delivering business value without having to worry about managing and scaling complex data streaming infrastructure. Please stay tuned! We will have follow up blog posts on these topics in future.

Big Data 256

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 256

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 130

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

It is versatile enough for deployment in cloud-based infrastructures, on-premise data centers, or local setups, delivering a dependable and adaptable messaging framework. They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic.

IoT 130

IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130