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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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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

The complexity of these operational demands underscored the urgent need for a scalable solution. To detect issues proactively, we need to simulate traffic and predict system behavior in advance. Once artificial traffic is generated, discarding the response object and relying solely on logs becomes inefficient.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments. Kafka stores and distributes data through a partitioned log system, which spans multiple brokers to provide fault tolerance and scalability. However, performance can decline under high traffic conditions. What is RabbitMQ?

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Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

Scalegrid

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

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?