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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DZone

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By providing a dedicated service layer to facilitate service discovery and how applications share information with each other, they provide security, tracing, monitoring, and traffic control.

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DZone

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Systems that operate at a cloud scale can get expected or unexpected surges of traffic from one or multiple callers and are expected to perform in a predictable manner. This article analyzes the effects of traffic surges on a distributed system.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Therefore, real online traffic is crucial for server-side testing. TCPCopy [1] is an open-source traffic replay tool that has been widely adopted by large enterprises. It is now difficult to rely solely on the personal experience of developers or testers to cover all possible business scenarios.

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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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TechBeacon Testing

JULY 20, 2020

This year's Amazon Prime Day may be delayed (reportedly until August or September), but when it does arrive, it is certain to bring with it the usual flood of web traffic from hungry shoppers looking for killer deals.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

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DZone

AUGUST 28, 2024

Putting an external cache in front of the database is commonly used to compensate for subpar latency stemming from various factors, such as inefficient database internals, driver usage, infrastructure choices, traffic spikes, and so on.

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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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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. Here’s what you can expect to learn: What is Sharding?: We’ll start by defining what sharding is and why it’s essential for modern, high-performance databases.

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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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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

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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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DZone

JULY 8, 2023

Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers).

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Basically, network sniffing is based on the fact that a network interface card is set in "promiscuous mode:" all network traffic crossing its path is captured, not just packets addressed to the device. How Does Network Sniffing Work?

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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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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., In this blog post, we will discuss the open-source service mesh Kuma, its architecture, and its easy-to-implement policies like traffic control, metrics, circuit breaking, etc. were not optimized. This led to the growth of service mesh.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience. These proxies act as vigilant guardians, adept at intercepting and directing incoming and outgoing traffic between services.

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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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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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

It simplifies configuration and management, offering powerful tools to handle traffic flows between services, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data, all without requiring changes to microservice code. Introduction to Istio Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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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. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. What has been happening on the network when apps experience issues?

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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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Apica

MARCH 28, 2019

The post Are Your Business Applications Dealing with a Traffic Jam? With Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 just behind us it is clear that most, if not all conversation were about Read More. Get Unstuck Today! appeared first on Apica.

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Apica

MARCH 28, 2019

The post Are Your Business Applications Dealing with a Traffic Jam? With Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 just behind us it is clear that most, if not all conversation were about Read More. Get Unstuck Today! appeared first on Apica.

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DZone

JULY 18, 2023

In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they?

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Statista shares insightful data on mobile web traffic that accounts for more than 50% globally from 1st quarter 2015 to 3rd quarter 2020. This increase in web traffic from mobile users comes with an expectation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In this article, we will look at two types of load balancers: one used to expose Kubernetes services to the external world and another used by engineers to balance network traffic loads to those services. Keep reading to get proven best practices for dealing with a Kubernetes load balancer.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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