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?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With its exchange feature, RabbitMQ enables advanced routing strategies, making it well-suited for workflows that require controlled message flow and guaranteed delivery. Its partitioned log architecture supports both queuing and publish-subscribe models, allowing it to handle large-scale event processing with minimal latency.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Replication Strategy. 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. Here are the configurations for this comparison: Plan. Dedicated Hosting. MongoDB® Database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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 determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. In modern production environments, there are numerous hardware and software hooks that can be adjusted to improve latency and throughput.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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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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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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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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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. In this testing strategy, we execute a copy (replay) of production traffic against a system’s existing and new versions to perform relevant validations. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. Now, let’s take a look at the throughput and latency performance of our comparison. Next, we are going to test and compare the latency performance between ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Latency Averages (ms).

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Traces are used for performance analysis, latency optimization, and root cause analysis. Capture critical performance indicators such as request latency, error rates, and resource usage. OpenTelemetry can complement and extend your existing observability tools to ensure a unified and effective strategy. Contextualize data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Continuous Instrumentation of the Linux Scheduler To ensure the reliability of our workloads that depend on low latency responses, we instrumented the run queue latency for each container, which measures the time processes spend in the scheduling queue before being dispatched to the CPU.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. After failures, Kafka Streams’ partition assignment strategy, triggered by rebalances, causes its executions to accumulate more lag. This significantly increases event latency.

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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

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. Usually, the reusability of data provided by the data producer is the key to taking advantage of the benefits of a cache.

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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

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. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Every company has its own strategy as to which technologies to use. It exports any pre-instrumented metrics for JVM, CPU Usage, Spring MVC, and WebFlux request latencies, cache utilization, data source utilization as well as custom metrics to the Dynatrace Metrics API v2. Dynatrace news. That’s a large amount of data to handle.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In-app purchases can help to measure the overall effectiveness of your business strategy. By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical. Load time and network latency metrics. Performance optimization.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. Migrating Persistent Stores Stateful APIs pose unique challenges that require different strategies.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For production models, this provides observability of service-level agreement (SLA) performance metrics, such as token consumption, latency, availability, response time, and error count. Finding a balance between complexity and impact must be a priority for organizations that adopt AI strategies.

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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. Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. Optimizes resources.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. To ensure resilience, ITOps teams simulate disasters and implement strategies to mitigate downtime and reduce financial loss. This is the number of failures that affect users’ ability to use an application by the total time in service.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You can eliminate the latency issues caused by cold starts — an increase in normal response time when a new instance receives its first request — by using edge-optimized functions that run code closer to users and other projects. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. It helps SRE teams automate responses.

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VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This proximity reduces latency and enables real-time decision-making. Lower latency and greater reliability: Edge computing’s localized processing enables immediate responses, reducing latency and improving system reliability. Assess factors like network latency, cloud dependency, and data sensitivity.

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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. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

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. not replacement —the current method would remain fully functional and valid) non-blocking loading strategy.

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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. Data Placement. Read/Write scalability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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. Efficiency. Streamlined change management. Robust emergency response. Accurate capacity planning. Knowing where to start.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

This is because file-size is only one aspect of web performance, and whatever the file-size is, the resource is still sat on top of a lot of other factors and constants—latency, packet loss, etc. This simple, elegant strategy manages to balance caution with optimism, and applies to every new TCP connection that your web application makes.

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