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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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? By logging all titles as they are displayed, we can process these logs to identify anomalies and gain insights into system performance.

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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?

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Replication Strategy. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis monitoring, exploring the most important Redis metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis performance management. Key Takeaways Redis monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Telemetry Telemetry involves collecting and analyzing data from distributed sources to provide insights into how a system is performing. Quantitative measurements that track the performance and health of systems over time. Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

In the realm of production applications, it is customary to address performance bottlenecks such as CPU and memory issues in order to identify and resolve their underlying causes. It is worth noting that this data collection process does not impact the performance of the application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. See more about the performance of stream processing frameworks in our published paper. ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks. This significantly increases event latency.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. Our service will be used by a lot of internal UI applications hence the latency for CRUD and search operations must be low. Search latency for the generic text queries are in milliseconds.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

It is a transparent layer for the data consumer in terms of user usability except to improve performance. Performance is the other reason to use a cache system such as in-memory databases to provide a high-performance solution with low latency, high throughput, and concurrency.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. Canaries also provide an opportunity to measure system performance under different load conditions, allowing us to identify and resolve any performance bottlenecks.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. The function itself performs a small unit of work and Lambda charges subscribers by the millisecond. Optimizing Lambda for performance. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Organizations measure these factors in general terms by assessing the usability, functionality, reliability, and performance of products and services. Performance. What does IT operations do? ITOps vs. DevOps and DevSecOps.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. All completely avoidable. to just 3.6s.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain. Migrating to the cloud is a strategy many organizations pursue to streamline and consolidate their security efforts. Improved performance and availability. Inconsistent performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

However, not all cloud strategies are the same. Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users. Serverless computing frameworks typically rely on software containers to provide on-demand performance and provisioning. Optimizes resources.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Reduced latency. If you haven’t implemented either, a best practice to get started is to develop a strategy that incorporates both DevOps and SRE practices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

So, what are the performance implications of all of this? Although this response has a 0B filesize, we will always take the latency hit on every single page view (and this response is basically 100% latency). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. It is actively harmful for performance.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Read/Write scalability. Fault-tolerance.

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