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 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

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.

Traffic 258

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 258

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 215

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 215

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Watch webinar now! Networking.

Open Source 313

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 313

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 202

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 202

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. By consistently examining log files, security breaches can be identified and responded to promptly, thereby upholding the continuous safeguarding of RabbitMQ’s infrastructure.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

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.

AWS 148

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 148

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 231

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 231

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 213

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 213

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 241

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 241

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 216

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 216

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 261

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 261

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 198

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 198

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

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.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

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 134

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 134

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 234

Processing Media Latency Innovation 234

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 260

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 260

Scalegrid

JUNE 21, 2024

It presents a wide array of powerful management features that allow users to fine-tune their MongoDB hosting according to their exact requirements, facilitating an efficient and strategically aligned navigational experience. These plans come packed with comprehensive features, including free data migrations, backups, and customer support.

Database 130

Database Efficiency Strategy Tuning 130

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

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 219

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 219

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 166

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 166

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 182

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 182

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 117

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 117

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Stay tuned to learn how to lay the foundation for a successful clone app that converts readers into leads. Choose a robust technology stack that can handle high traffic and accommodate future growth. Stay tuned for valuable insights on designing a captivating UberEats clone.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

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 137

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

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 177

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics 177

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 175

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 175

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 203

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 203

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 217

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 217

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 120

Internet Internet AWS Performance 120

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 129

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 129

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Obviously, without the need to have to rent or buy physical servers, it can be more cost-effective for organizations to forego the traditional route of having to manage their physical infrastructure and only pay for the time and memory utilized to run your code/applications. Scalability. Monitoring. This is known as a cold start.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

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 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

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 298

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 298

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

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