The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one. In addition, the ratio of CE to mobile streaming differs regionally; for example, mobile is more popular in South America. evacuation traffic/nominal traffic ).

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The resulting outages wreaked havoc on customer experiences and left IT professionals scrambling to quickly find and repair affected systems. Dynatrace offers various out-of-the-box features and applications to provide a high-density overview of system health for all hosts and related metrics in a single view.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. Conversely, search results on desktop and mobile may appear different as desktop searches will use desktop Core Web Vitals data and mobile searches will use mobile data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Qatar provides these immigration services online for their residents via their mobile app, Metrash. Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Improvements have been seen across all device categories ranging from TVs to mobiles and tablets. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022. The graphic below (Fig.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Operating systems support. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. On the consumer side, SLOs focus on application adoption, overall application rating, and the total number of mobile crashes.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

With our IT systems, we’re crafting the Digital Experiences for our customers as they use the digital touch points we offer them, may it be a mobile app, web application, Amazon Alexa skill, ATM, a Check-in Kiosk at the airport, or a TV app. How reliable do IT systems work via the home internet connection?

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Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy 264

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Standard integrations are through Slack, xMatters, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, our Mobile App or by simply calling a webhook to notify any external tool. NYCM is pushing Dynatrace problems into their HelpDesk system, where new tickets get created and automatically populated with the problem context details.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. DevOps monitoring also helps teams meet their SLAs for system uptime.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often. With most traffic coming from mobile for many of our customers, and the complexity of the “last mile,” do we really need to be troubleshooting core backbone ISP routing paths?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile-first indexing.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The authors quantify the scale of the problem, and note that users have even less viable defence mechanisms than they do on web and mobile platforms. The top 1000 channels from each service are analysed using a custom-built crawling engine, and traffic is intercepted where possible using mitmproxy. How they did it. The last word.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications. The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles.

Metrics 206

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As a result, IT teams can automate and manage processes across on-premises and cloud-based systems, or between multiple cloud services to prevent vendor lock-in. Proactively manage web and mobile applications based on user experience or traffic. Cloud Automation use cases.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. SREs visualize the state of the system they’re responsible for with powerful Dynatrace dashboards. DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 February 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2021. Linux: Ubuntu 19.10.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

For example: Infrastructure services might provide data about request timings that can give you a precise overview of system health, but the data is logged in a custom format. Whether a web server, mobile app, backend service, or other custom application, log data can provide you with deep insights into your software’s operations and events.

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Processing Metrics Monitoring Java 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Take an alternative route due to a bad traffic jam! Today’s example comes from Chad Turner, Dynatrace Certified Associate Network Systems Technician at NYCM. NYCM also started rolling out the Dynatrace Mobile App for both their On-Call Teams as well as for their managers. Automating tasks, e.g: At NYCM it is no different.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 238

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability. A service that delivers perfect results within milliseconds in most cases could take ages on an outdated mobile device running in a low bandwidth geolocation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

And we own the data pipelines that power everything from executive-oriented dashboards to the personalization systems that help connect each Netflix member with content that will spark joy for them. At Netflix, we are not afraid to test boldly, and to challenge fundamental or long-held assumptions.

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Education Innovation Testing Programming 245

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. They now offer street maps, online advertising, mobile and web content creation, and ecommerce services. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." seconds with the system. Hey, it's HighScalability time: @danielbryantuk : "A LAMP stack is a good thing. mipsytipsy #CloudNativeLondon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Data Scientists play a vital role in building automated systems that leverage causal inference to decide how we spend our advertising budget. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. In advertising, the treatments (the ads that we purchase) have a direct monetary cost to Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This was a custom built, 3-step pipeline: Capture the production traffic for the desired path(s) Replay the traffic against the two services in the TEST environment Compare and assert for differences It was a self-contained flow that, by design, captured entire requests, and not just the one path we requested.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Measuring the Relative Mobile Conversion Rate : Identify performance issues by comparing the conversion rates on mobile and desktop. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. Take this example: Mobile.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

"We are preparing for the opening of competition on rails in Finland and at the same time the industry is going through transformation to mobility as a service for both passengers and goods. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. USENIX Security Symposium 2019.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It’s no different to saying this person was from Nigeria or this person was on mobile or this person was on a high latency connection. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing. The bad news?

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Dynatrace’s Response Time Hotspot Analysis automates the hotspot detection in highly distributed systems. Best data to start your optimization!

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