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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Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

All other application instances were handling the traffic properly. The application was running on a GNU/Linux OS, Java 8, Tomcat 8 application server. All of a sudden, one of the application instances became unresponsive. Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

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Tuning Java Traffic AWS 173

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. What is Docker? Networking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace provides advanced observability across on-premises systems and cloud providers in a single platform, providing application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Artificial Intelligence-driven operations (AIOps), code-level execution, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and digital business analytics. Stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Through six years of research, the DORA team identified these four key metrics as those that indicate the performance of a DevOps team, ranking them from “low” to “elite,” where elite teams are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals. Application usage and traffic.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic. How to get started.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. So stay tuned!

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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. Fine-tune Session Replay for your business purposes—examples. Cost and traffic control. The following settings can be applied: Cost and traffic control : 100%.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning. Teams need to verify and potentially adjust this tuning every time the application changes. Of these, WAF is much more commonly used today.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

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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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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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. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Host-performance measures.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning. There is no best garbage collector.

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Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 235

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Stay tuned. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 264

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

Latency 258

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP) traffic flow (characterized by a 5-tuple on a per network interface basis) that occurs within an aggregation interval.

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Network Tuning AWS Traffic 153

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service. You can read all about it in our Configuration as Code documentation.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Key performance metrics come with a new UI.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 140

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As an application owner, you might want to ingest performance or business metrics into Dynatrace from various sources and take advantage of the full power of Davis AI topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting. The interface rejects any traffic that doesn’t originate from localhost.

Metrics 242

Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic 242

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Observability data provides a treasure trove of performance, stability, and user experience metrics encompassing error rates, response times, and user engagement. For instance, in the case of poor performance, you can seamlessly toggle a feature flag and mitigate any detrimental effects.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Our mission is to provide automatic answers, including root cause analysis, for performance degradation across all these systems and environments, regardless of the underlying hardware architecture. Host performance measures. For details on available metrics, see host performance monitoring. Stay tuned for more details.

Java 182

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 182

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Host-performance measures.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. This will get us straight to the application page, where we get more insight on how our front end actually performs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Dynatrace now goes a step further and makes it possible for SREs and DevOps to perform proactive exploratory analysis of observability signals with intelligent answers. We’ll cover all these scenarios in future blogposts, so please stay tuned for more details. Just one click to your preventive analysis.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

Applications will always have errors, but these errors don’t always warrant alerts as its not impacting end users and performance. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. People cannot predict how their applications are going to behave ahead of time.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Automated release inventory and version comparison , which allows teams to easily evaluate the performance of individual release versions, and as needed, roll back to a previous version. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version. What’s next.

Cloud 242

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics 242

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A lenient trace data sampling policy generates a large number of traces in each service container and can lead to degraded performance of streaming services as more CPU, memory, and network resources are consumed by the tracer library. This setup of chained Mantis jobs allows us to scale each data processing component independently.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 209

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We expect the performance and scaling to continue to get better without much effort on our part.

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