The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The enriched data is seamlessly accessible for both real-time applications via Kafka and historical analysis through storage in an Apache Iceberg table. This refined output is then structured using an Avro schema, establishing a definitive source of truth for Netflixs impression data.

Tuning 165

Tuning Latency Efficiency Analytics 165

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.

Social Media 281

Social Media Java Traffic Internet 281

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Message brokers handle validation, routing, storage, and delivery, ensuring efficient and reliable communication. Message Broker vs. Distributed Event Streaming Platform RabbitMQ functions as a message broker, managing message confirmation, routing, storage, and delivery within a queue. What is RabbitMQ?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

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. Unlike full backups that duplicate everything, incremental backups store only changes since the last save, reducing storage needs and speeding up recovery.

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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.

Traffic 279

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To improve DNS load-balancing performance, Web UI traffic is by default disabled when installing 13th and following node (or 7th and following in a datacenter for Premium HA ). You can enable/disable Web UI traffic for a node via Cluster REST API. Security enhanced by removing EXEC:ALL entry from dtrun sudoers setup. Cluster REST API.

Traffic 214

Traffic Storage Internet Internet 214

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Progressive rollouts, rollbacks, storage orchestration, bin packing, self-healing, cost efficiency, and access to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem carry heavy observability challenges. Unlike evictions from resource exhaustion on a node, this event resulted from ephemeral storage limits exceeded on the pod.

Storage 328

Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 328

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.

Latency 235

Latency Storage Traffic Infrastructure 235

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service.

Java 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. To keep clusters resilient and performing well, the ALR mechanism intelligently analyzes only parts of the traffic and makes an estimate of the full load. This means that disk space requirements for Dynatrace transaction storage may increase.

Processing 234

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 234

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Dehydrated data has been compressed or otherwise altered for storage in a data warehouse. Observability starts with the collection, storage, and accessibility of multiple sources.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

Java 244

Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 246

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 236

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 236

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

Latency 256

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 256

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. It involves both the collection and storage of logs, as well as aggregation, analysis, and even the long-term storage and destruction of log data.

Cloud 260

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 260

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. Teams also don’t have to maintain normalized schemas to query data.

Network 246

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security. The dashboard tracks a histogram chart of total storage utilized with logs daily. You can see in a table retention periods by the number of logs and storage they consumed.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Infrastructure 290

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How do you make Jaeger even more effective for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications, especially in high-traffic, demanding environments where a high-performance storage solution is critical? Use the best-performing Jaeger storage backend that you can find.

Performance 173

Performance Storage Traffic Programming 173

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs.

AWS 246

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. Storage and management of credentials via the Synthetic Monitoring credential vault. But wait, there’s more!

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

Website 245

Website Latency Traffic DevOps 245

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics).

Latency 297

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 297

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. Synchronous storage size. Async storage size. Storage read size rate. Storage read count rate.

Storage 182

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 182

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

At some point a storage cupboard was taken over with a combination lock on the door, no-one was allow to ask or discuss what was going on, as Apple insisted on absolute secrecy. We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work. I use mine most days to watch videos.

C++ 88

C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. The graphic below (Fig.

Open Source 256

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 256

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis. What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2022

When multiplied by the amount of traffic that these offerings attract, it’s nearly impossible for application developers to tie in user experience insights with errors that are discovered in production. This necessitates that millions of microservices and thousands of apps be updated regularly per continuous delivery.

Traffic 246

Traffic DevOps Storage Innovation 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

Java 246

Java Traffic Education Testing 246

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion suns : weight of the Milky Way; 300 +: backdoored apps on GitHub; 10% : hacked self-driving cars needed to bring traffic to a halt; $3 million : Marriott data breach cost after insurance; Quoteable Quotes: @kelseyhightower : Platform in a box solutions that are attempting to turn Kubernetes into a PaaS are missing the "as a service" part.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As Dynatrace deployments grow rapidly, we’re making it easier for Dynatrace Managed customers to proactively monitor and plan their network, storage, and compute power requirements—so that we can deliver the SaaS experience on top of it. This means that you’ll get three dashboards per management zone , one for each focus area.

Software 214

Software Software Programming Metrics 214

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the private and public clouds.

Azure 145

Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145