The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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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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. It was time to take a step back and reevaluate our ES data indexing and sharding strategy. We also changed our mapping strategy to overcome these issues.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. Think of it as a sophisticated traffic management system that ensures smooth flow and prevents congestion.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This enables proactive changes such as resource autoscaling, traffic shifting, or preventative rollbacks of bad code deployment ahead of time. One study found that 93% of companies have a multicloud strategy to enable them to use the best qualities of each cloud provider for different situations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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 control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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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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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

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. This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment.

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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

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

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.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance. Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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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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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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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

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Unifying data, unifying observability Merging siloed data streams in a unified observ ability strategy requires a different approach.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. An effective IT infrastructure monitoring strategy includes the following best practices: Determine the best cloud tooling and services for your specific cloud environment. Website monitoring. Cloud-server monitoring.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

com and the strategies we use to keep it up and running with high availability. The number of services that compose our product in order to scale our organization and handle the increases in traffic went from under 10 to over 30 services. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities. Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. What is a zero-day vulnerability?

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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 following settings can be applied: Cost and traffic control : 25%.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2020

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). This setting distinguishes between slowdown alerts and error detection, so that you can choose an individual strategy for each.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

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. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Responsible AI approach at the core To support a responsible AI approach, organizations need to consider the integrity of their broader strategy for monitoring IT systems. Read our ebook to learn how to develop an AIOps strategy that drives efficiency, innovation, and better business outcomes. Root-cause analysis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Therefore, the team integrated the Dynatrace observability platform into numerous aspects of its software development process to ensure the new code could meet their standards and be performant during the pandemic—when the application saw its highest traffic on record.

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Government Strategy Cloud Traffic 246

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. Partitioned Table Flexibility: Exclusion constraints now work with partitioned tables, allowing more advanced partitioning strategies.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Implementing a robust monitoring and observability strategy has become the foundation of an organization’s ability to improve business resiliency and stay in control of their critical IT environments. Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination.

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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. It is important to highlight that the expected >20% reduction in average session bitrate for these encodes corresponds to a significant reduction in the overall Netflix traffic as well.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

Here are some other examples of collaboration with business stakeholders: Unexpected traffic surge in the data center or A Dynatrace Champions guide to get ahead of digital marketing campaign. Extend and automate your SRE strategy to Business Level Objective Monitoring.

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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. Observability provides banks and other financial institutions with real-time insight into their IT environment, including applications, infrastructure, and network traffic.

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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. Dynatrace users can now unlock answer-driven automation to safely and securely release new features to customers while ensuring production SLOs are intact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one. In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates.

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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

APRIL 28, 2021

Organizations that have transitioned to agile software development strategies (including the adoption of a DevOps culture and continuous delivery automation) enforce automated solutions for such decision making—or at the very least, use automation in the gathering of a release-quality metrics. How Release Analysis works. Kubernetes metadata.

Software 246

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis.

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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. SSH Access to Machine.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This is because each of these traffic vectors comes with unique challenges. The following are three strategies worth considering. Synthetic testing as part of a unified observability strategy To make synthetic testing easy to develop and maintain, it should be part of a wider observability strategy.

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