Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. 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.

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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. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

Traffic 347

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers.

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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

Latency 261

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization in five easy steps. In this alert, xMatters includes all the important incident information from Dynatrace, so there’s no need for you to visit additional system dashboards. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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Systems DevOps Latency Azure 177

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. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Fetching User Feed. Streaming Data Model.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process.

Traffic 285

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285

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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Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 240

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. Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. So why mess with it?

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

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. In this blog post, we discuss an approach to optimize the MySQL index creation process in such a way that your regular workload is not impacted. 95th Percentile Latency.

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Latency Tuning Database 239

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Reliability.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 270

DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs. It involves a combination of techniques and best practices aimed at reducing latency, improving user experience, and increasing the overall efficiency of the system. What Is API Performance Optimization?

Scalability 245

Scalability Design Best Practices Performance 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 258

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 258

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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Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 187

DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

In order to gain insight into these problems, we gather a range of metrics and logs to monitor the utilization of system resources such as CPU, memory, and application-specific latencies. 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 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The voice service then constructs a message for the device and places it on the message queue, which is then processed and sent to Pushy to deliver to the device. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command. The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above.

Latency 235

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 235

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Fault tolerance The ability of a system to continue to be dependable (both available and reliable) in the presence of certain component or subsystem failures.

Engineering 165

Engineering Systems Availability Scalability 165

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. They knew a different team supported each step in the process. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Open vulnerability on process group: The total number of currently high-profile vulnerabilities related to a process group. Vulnerability score: The highest vulnerability risk score for a process group. This way, the travel agency can easily streamline, organize, and consolidate their quality gates and metric evaluation process.

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Speed Software Software Latency 213

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 299

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.

Latency 240

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 240

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? 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. Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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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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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing has emerged as a critical paradigm to process data closer to the source—IoT devices. This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Latency Internet 204

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards. Integration with existing processes. This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams.

Best Practices 272

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 272

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. The old ground-initiated command-and-control style systems aren’t going to work for these finer-grained systems.

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 216

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and periodically compute key information for a member or a video. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

Latency 252

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 252

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It is difficult to fault their argument – as it’s absolutely true that: Each client having its own process prevents a poorly behaving client from crashing the entire database.

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