The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

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Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With the rise of microservices architecture , there has been a rapid acceleration in the modernization of legacy platforms, leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly scalable, low-latency, and more responsive services. Traditional blocking architectures often struggle to keep up performance, especially under high load.

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Performance Latency Architecture Programming 287

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Service Level Objectives (SLO) tracking: Honeycomb charts can visualize SLOs, helping you monitor whether your services meet performance and reliability targets. This is useful for identifying performance bottlenecks and understanding the overall user experience. Based on the color, you immediately see if any SLOs are off track.

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Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics 246

DZone

MAY 3, 2023

Upload files with HTML Upload files with JavaScript Receive uploads in Node.js (Nuxt.js) Optimize storage costs with Object Storage Optimize performance with a CDN Secure uploads with malware scans Today, we’ll do more architectural work, but this time it’ll be focused on optimizing performance.

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Latency Speed Performance Storage 195

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

This extends Dynatrace visibility into Citrix user experience and Citrix platform performance. Platform performance —get visibility into the performance of the Citrix platform to optimize application delivery. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform performance. Dynatrace Extension: NetScaler performance.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Compare Pricing.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

However, the process for effectively scaling Elasticsearch can be nuanced, since one needs a proper understanding of the architecture behind it and of performance tradeoffs. This extra network overhead will easily result in increased latency compared to a single-node architecture where data access is straightforward.

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Scalability Open Source Latency Architecture 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Architecture Comparison RabbitMQ and Kafka have distinct architectural designs that influence their performance and suitability for different use cases.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

This article takes a plunge into the comparative analysis of these two cult technologies, highlights the critical performance metrics concerning scalability considerations, and, through real-world use cases, gives you the clarity to confidently make an informed decision. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

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Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview. Compare Pricing.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

DZone

MAY 1, 2023

CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. To achieve this level of performance, such systems require dedicated CPU cores that are free from interruptions by other processes, together with wider system tuning.

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Tuning Systems Latency Performance 253

DZone

AUGUST 20, 2023

Application performance is critical for delivering a fast and responsive user experience. Slow performance, or high latency, can lead to frustrated users and lost revenue for the organization. From a high level, application latency refers to the delay between the user's request and the application's response.

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Performance Latency Efficiency Processing 225

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 244

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

The post will provide a comprehensive guide to understanding the key principles and best practices for optimizing the performance of APIs. What Is API Performance Optimization? API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This dual-path approach leverages Kafkas capability for low-latency streaming and Icebergs efficient management of large-scale, immutable datasets, ensuring both real-time responsiveness and comprehensive historical data availability. This integration will not only optimize performance but also ensure more efficient resource utilization.

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Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 165

DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the fast-paced digital world, where every millisecond counts, understanding the nuances of network latency becomes paramount for developers and system architects. Latency, the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer, can significantly impact user experience and system performance.

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Latency Metrics Network Systems 147

Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Let's kick off the new year by celebrating someone who has not just had a huge impact on web performance over the past few years, but who has even more exciting stuff in the works for the future: Annie Sullivan! Annie and her team navigate this arduous task with true passion for web performance and for improving the user experience.

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. to the broader community.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 213

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Dynatrace OTel Collector Understand your applications with ease Due to a lack of contextual insights and actionable intelligence, application teams often find themselves overwhelmed by data, unable to quickly identify the root causes of performance issues.

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Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 290

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below).

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

DZone

JULY 19, 2021

We want to make scale, availability and low latency access to data as easy as possible for everyone, and it’s all about where your data lives. CockroachDB was built to address these challenges and we’ve recently simplified a multi-region deployment of a consistent database down to a few simple, declarative SQL statements applied as DML.

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Latency Database Performance Availability 246

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. The latency table shows that 99th percentile latency for Yugabyte is quite high compared to others (lower is better). Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. Conclusion.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

High performance. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency. Meltdown Performance Impact on MongoDB: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean. Simple pricing.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 344

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. It gets worse.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 353

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

Currently, publicly available wifi hotspots are the preferred networks for video consumption, but poor network infrastructure also leads to unbearable video buffering and latency. However, OTT streaming delivery requires something faster than what the internet offers in terms of how chunks/fragments are supposed to flow.

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Latency Internet Internet Network 147

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. Traditional performance analysis tools such as perf can introduce significant overhead, risking further performance degradation.

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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 259

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. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Latency 114

Latency Performance Tuning Design 114

DZone

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Improve AWS performance! As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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AWS Latency Performance Open Source 36

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.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 219

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 343

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Journey to HTTP/3 Network performance, such as low latency and high throughput, is critical to Pinners’ experience. The aim was to enhance the user experience and improve critical business metrics by leveraging the capabilities of the modern HTTP/3 protocol.

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Performance Latency Network Infrastructure 189