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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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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

To extend Dynatrace diagnostic visibility into network traffic, we’ve added out-of-the-box DNS request tracking to our infrastructure monitoring capabilities. While our competitors only provide generic traffic monitoring without artificial intelligence, Dynatrace automatically analyzes DNS-related anomalies.

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Monzo Employs Targeted Traffic Shedding Against Stampeding Herd Effect From the Mobile App

InfoQ

Monzo developed a solution for shedding traffic in case its platform comes under intense and unexpected load that could lead to an outage. Traffic spikes can be generated by the mobile app and triggered by push notifications or other bursts in user activity.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Congestion Control in Cloud Scale Distributed Systems

DZone

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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What your team can learn from traffic mega-surges like Amazon Prime Day

TechBeacon Testing

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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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

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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