The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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DZone

APRIL 8, 2021

It's often said that your network is the backbone of your IT infrastructure, underlying every other part of your enterprise IT. If your Cisco network infrastructure goes down or is experiencing performance issues, it's crucial that you have a real-time solution to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible.

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DZone

AUGUST 24, 2021

As a frontend developer or QA, we want to test our website performance in different network conditions and with different API latencies too. Here are some scenarios where you would like to delay the network requests. Testing certain components of web applications requires simulating delay in one or more web app components.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

PolyScale operates a global network of PoPs (Points of Presence). This versatility provides a cost-effective solution to reduce global network latency by bringing the database closer to the end user. The network of PoPs spans multiple cloud providers , thereby bridging the gap between cloud providers.

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Latency Network AWS Performance 242

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. Identify under-performing DNS servers.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

As HTTP and browser monitors cover the application level of the ISO /OSI model , successful executions of synthetic tests indicate that availability and performance meet the expected thresholds of your entire technological stack. Are all network devices up and running, and is the network providing reliable and swift access to your systems?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. Begin network monitoring by simply deploying an extension with just a few clicks. The topology model for network devices covers simple to complex use cases from visualizing the interfaces of a router to mapping an F5 Big-IP LTM load balancer. Start monitoring in minutes.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 217

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Monitoring modern IT infrastructure is difficult, sometimes impossible, without advanced network monitoring tools. While the market is saturated with many Network Administrator support solutions, Dynatrace can help you analyze the impact on your organization in an automated manner. Sample SNMP-enabled device configuration. What’s next?

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, Network Access Control (NAC) stands out as a critical technology and process for authenticating and authorizing users on a private or corporate network.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In the changing world of data centers and cloud computing, the desire for efficient, flexible, and scalable networking solutions has resulted in the broad use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Traditional networking models have a tightly integrated control plane and data plane within network devices.

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DZone

MARCH 18, 2024

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? Previously, proprietary hardware performed functions like routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc. VNFs are virtualized network services that are packaged as virtual machines (VMs) on commodity hardware. These hardware functions are packaged as virtual machine images in a VNF.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the constant evolution of this sector, the dynamic duo of AI and ML is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry, propelling it towards greater network efficiency, unparalleled customer service, and fortified security measures. Here's an example of how machine learning can optimize network performance:

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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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? Issue remediation.

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DZone

AUGUST 7, 2023

Zhejiang Lab is a research institute in China, focusing on intelligent sensing, AI, computing, and networks. We tried two solutions: object storage with s3fs + network-attached storage (NAS) and Alluxio + Fluid + object storage , but they had limitations and performance issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

By utilizing Application Security Modules, which allow agencies to safeguard applications at runtime for automatic and continuous protection, you’ll have the best of both worlds: Applications running at peak performance without vulnerabilities, made possible by highly scalable application security solutions.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

This marked a significant improvement in its networking infrastructure. The Journey to HTTP/3 Network performance, such as low latency and high throughput, is critical to Pinners’ experience. In a recent announcement, Pinterest revealed its successful migration from HTTP/2 to HTTP/3.

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Performance Latency Network Infrastructure 189

DZone

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It’s one of the best tools out there for diagnosing and improving the performance of your web applications. You can use it to track loading times, optimize CSS and JavaScript , and inspect network activity. But there’s an important piece of performance data that DevTools doesn’t yet expose by default: Long Animation Frames (LoAFs).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The newly introduced Network devices and Details view within Hosts provide comprehensive health status information, relevant networking signals, and machine metrics—all analyzed and provided by the industry-leading combination of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse and Davis ® AI.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the recently published Gartner® “ Critic al Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability,” Dynatrace scored highest for the IT Operations Use Case (4.15/5) This is accomplished by using service monitoring and anomaly detection for early-warning notifications of performance issues.” 5) in the Gartner report.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Efficient device management allows organizations to handle this vast network without hitches. Secure cryptographic methods establish its identity and grant it access to the network. Monitoring and diagnostics : Actively checking device health, status, and performance. This helps in predicting failures before they occur.

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. Intelligent autoscaling: Adjusts resource allocation based on demand and performance. Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, uses Envoy as its data plane.

Traffic 274

Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 274

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Here are some of the key Greenplum advantages that can help you improve your database performance: High Performance.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. With the new extension framework, thanks to our API-first approach, there are no operations to be performed in the web UI. Events and alerts. A sneak peak.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. Power outages and network issues are common examples of challenges that can put your service — and your business — at risk.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Conducting performance testing and having contingency plans for peak times can help ensure systems remain operational during spikes in usage.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But, performance testing is a little tricky. If you sniff the traffic, you don't get any network data. If you are working on Shiny apps performance testing, then this blog article is for you. Data is ubiquitous. Shiny from R Studio helps to build interactive web applications from R.

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Testing Performance Testing Traffic Network 276

DZone

JUNE 20, 2023

However, as the number of applications relying on APIs continues to grow, it's increasingly crucial to ensure that APIs can handle the load and perform effectively. API resource utilization refers to the utilization of resources like CPU, memory, and network bandwidth by APIs to handle incoming requests.

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Network Performance 281

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

Intro to Istio Observability Using Prometheus Istio service mesh abstracts the network from the application layers using sidecar proxies. You can implement security and advance networking policies to all the communication across your infrastructure using Istio. But another important feature of Istio is observability.

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Monitoring Latency Network Infrastructure 260

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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DZone

JULY 26, 2022

In QA and software testing world, a compatibility test is a kind of test performed to scrutinize whether the software or app is competent of running on multiple OSs, mobile devices, browsers, applications, network environments, and more. Put simply, the compatibility of the software is checked for distinct environments and platforms.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Operating System 246

DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. This functionality enhances web applications' overall performance and responsiveness and ensures a seamless user experience.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ?

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