The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Competitive advantage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As Netflix scaled, we faced the mounting challenge of providing accurate, timely answers to increasingly complex queries about title performance and discoverability. By logging all titles as they are displayed, we can process these logs to identify anomalies and gain insights into system performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. We tried both, and in many cases it helps, but sometimes it is a short term fix and the performance problems come back after a while; and it did for us.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. 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. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

We can experiment with different content placements or promotional strategies to boost visibility and engagement. Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

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. There are proven strategies for handling this.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive deep into the concept of database sharding, a critical technique for scaling databases to handle large volumes of data and high levels of traffic. We’ll start by defining what sharding is and why it’s essential for modern, high-performance databases. Here’s what you can expect to learn: What is Sharding?:

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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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. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Key Benefits: Smaller Storage Footprint: Saves only modified data, cutting down backup size.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Architecture Comparison RabbitMQ and Kafka have distinct architectural designs that influence their performance and suitability for different use cases.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The implications of software performance issues and outages have a significantly broader impact than in the past—with the potential to negatively impact revenue, customer experiences, patient outcomes, and, of course, brand reputation. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2020

We’re happy to announce that with Dynatrace version 1.189, you can give your baselining routines more time to evaluate short-lived performance conditions. This means that Dynatrace alerts more quickly when an error spike occurs in a high-traffic service (compared to a low-traffic service where statistical confidence is lower).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

As an application architect, Smith noted it was challenging to ensure software quality and performance when making large-scale changes, including a cloud infrastructure migration and front-end modernization to their unemployment insurance application. The stakes were high. At times, this process extended into weeks and months.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly striving to come up with solutions that can help modernize your performance and user experience monitoring strategies. Cost and traffic control. The following settings can be applied: Cost and traffic control : 100%. The sections that follow discuss each use case in detail.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Observability becomes mandatory for any serious sustainability strategy in IT. During the holiday season, an e-commerce platform anticipating a traffic surge could use preventive observability to predict slowdowns or overloads, proactively scale resources, optimize performance, and balance cloud costs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Types of synthetic testing There are three broad types of synthetic testing: availability, web performance, and transaction. Browser clickpaths. HTTP monitors.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The good news: even for latecomers to the compliance party, compliance is perfectly doable within the timeframe given the right tools and strategies. Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. Real-time monitoring with out-of-the-box features Real-time data and monitoring are crucial for maintaining situational awareness of IT environment stability and performance, especially during a crisis.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Handling Bursty Traffic : Managing significant traffic spikes during high-demand events, such as new content launches or regional failovers. Sharded Infrastructure : Leveraging the Data Gateway Platform , we can deploy single-tenant and/or multi-tenant infrastructure with the necessary access and traffic isolation.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264 Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

He joined us at Perform 2021 to share his experience, highlighting why automatic and intelligent observability and AIOps are crucial. You can see the traffic reaching each milestone of an online shopping journey. SAP makes observability a first-class citizen. Automatic and intelligent observability insights extend to the business.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Dynatrace, we follow a combination of agent and agent-less approach where the “secret sauce” lies in our Dynatrace OneAgent (watch my Performance Clinic YouTube tutorial with our Chief Software Architect Helmut Spiegl ). Resource consumption & traffic analysis. It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production assets operations are performed in parallel with older data reprocessing without any service downtime. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Instead we use Elasticsearch to search those assets which are more performant.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications. ScaleGrid BYOC Pricing: $232/month.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

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