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Load Testing Essentials for High-Traffic Applications

DZone

When you consider marketing campaigns, seasonal spikes, or social media virality episodes, this demand can overshoot projections and bring systems to a grinding halt. Todays applications must simultaneously serve millions of users, so high performance is a hard requirement for this heavy load.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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How To Implement Video Information and Editing APIs in Java

DZone

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

for streaming traffic. would reduce play delay, as we are no longer required to wait for the handshake to finish and we can instead issue the HTTP request for media data and receive the HTTP response for media data earlier. Media Rebuffer At Netflix, we define a media rebuffer as a non-network originated rebuffer.

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Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic.

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