The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article provides an overview of Azure's load balancing options, encompassing Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door Service, and Azure Traffic Manager. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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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. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic. TCP Server. // Start TCP server. listener, _ := net.Listen("tcp", ":1234"). conn, _ := listener.Accept().

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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. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. Using the VPC flow log default pattern available in DPL Architect, we can extract the meaningful fields to see only the network traffic targeting the SSH port.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. patronictl list did not display this server. Master/Primary Server Tests. Reboot the server. Failover happened and one of the standby servers was elected as the new master after obtaining the lock. Network-isolate the master server from other servers.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability. Cost savings: Caching can reduce the computational resources required for data processing and lower infrastructure costs by minimizing the need for expensive server resources.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In simple terms, a Load Balancer is like the traffic cop of the internet. Distributing incoming web traffic among multiple servers. Hey there, I'm Roman, a Cloud Architect at Gart with over 15 years of experience. Today, I want to delve into the world of Load Balancers with you. Its main gig?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Read Also: Best PostgreSQL GUI Incremental Backups PostgreSQL 17 introduces incremental backups , a game-changer for large and high-traffic databases. Reduced Server Load: Running backups on a secondary server keeps the primary database running smoothly. </p>

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DZone

JULY 31, 2019

In the web hosting service industry, it is commonly used for balancing the HTTP traffic across multiple servers which act together as a web front-end. A Load Balancer allows the users to distribute the traffic to a single IP across several servers by using a set of different protocols. How Does a Load Balancer Work?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Application servers use connection pools to maintain connections with the databases that they communicate with. A traffic spike can be another root cause (for example, if a new marketing promotion drives lots of new customer traffic to your site). Application server configurations.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 208

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross data-center traffic. Upgrade OpenTracing instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2022

As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. Web performance testing is executed, so that accurate information is provided on the application's readiness by monitoring the server-side application and testing the website. What Is Web Performance Testing?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. This approach ensures high availability by isolating regions, so if one becomes degraded, others remain unaffected, allowing traffic to be shifted between regions to maintain service continuity.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

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DZone

JANUARY 28, 2021

HAProxy load balancer handles heavy load traffic and reroutes requests seamlessly across multiple servers. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source, fast, and reliable solution that provides load balancer and reverse proxy features for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. HAProxy also supports the following features:

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

If the primary server encounters issues, operations are smoothly transitioned to a standby server with minimal interruption. Key Takeaways PostgreSQL automatic failover enhances high availability by seamlessly switching to standby servers during primary server failures, minimizing downtime, and maintaining business continuity.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. In this case, the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) are derived from span attributes and DQL metric queries via Dynatrace Grail™.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud-server monitoring. Website monitoring.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. What are serverless applications?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through a service mesh. This is especially important as these are the gatekeepers for all incoming and outgoing traffic. Are you new to Dynatrace? If so, start your free trial today!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns. Reduced cost.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region. You can set up different proxy servers for the Mission Control uplink for each data center. Self-contained turnkey solution.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. ActiveGate also optimizes traffic volume in your network and serves as a secure relay layer in protected networks and DMZs.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. OSDI’20.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. Real-time network performance analysis capabilities, including SSL decryption, enabled precise reconstruction of end user application states through the analysis of network traffic.

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Network Traffic Monitoring Java 221

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

For example, a good course of action is knowing which impacted servers run mission-critical services and remediating those first. The Dynatrace synthetic monitors they used to monitor the performance of this critical third-party application immediately detected the outage when the CrowdStrike software affected the vendor’s servers.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. is the key to providing accurate root cause analysis.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. For example: Largest Contentful Paint can be improved by faster server response times, deferring render-blocking JavaScript and CSS, reducing resource load times, and optimizing any client-side rendering.

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