Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New: identify hotspots with the honeycomb visualization Honeycombs are great for visualizing health in complex and distributed systems, enabling you to visualize countless entities effectively and at scale. This is useful for identifying performance bottlenecks and understanding the overall user experience.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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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. Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

This extends Dynatrace visibility into Citrix user experience and Citrix platform performance. Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Citrix VDA.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This approach has a handful of benefits. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

As soon as Dynatrace detects a disk health related issue—in this case Low disk space—the Dynatrace AI causation engine provides automated root cause analysis that shows you all related performance errors, as well as which applications and services have been affected by the issue. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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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

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.

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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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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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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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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. 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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. Performance Benefits of Rolling Index Creation.

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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will explore one of the most common and useful resilience patterns in distributed systems: the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

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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. Well-defined APIs are required for managing such microservices and tracking changes in their performance. High latency or lack of responses.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Dynatrace news. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. 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 and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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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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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. Just to throw out some numbers, we measured Anna providing 355x the performance of DynamoDB for the dollar. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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