The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

Monitoring 215

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 215

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning.

Latency 234

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 234

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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DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 200

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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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. optimizing traffic routing. What’s next.

Network 173

Network Traffic Infrastructure Tuning 173

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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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic. How to get started.

Traffic 241

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 241

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. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. What’s next?

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Java Traffic Architecture Serverless 245

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP) traffic flow (characterized by a 5-tuple on a per network interface basis) that occurs within an aggregation interval.

Network 152

Network Tuning AWS Traffic 152

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Understanding cold-start behavior is essential to tune your cloud applications cost or performance to meet your operational needs. Such anomalies can be caused by function cold-starts.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 220

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 53

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic.

Open Source 102

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 102

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. What is Docker? Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 314

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Application usage and traffic. Application usage and traffic monitors the number of users accessing your system and informs many other metrics, including system uptime. For example, if your application gets too much traffic and usage, it could fail under the pressure.

DevOps 214

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 214

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

To mitigate these issues, we implemented adaptive pagination which dynamically tunes the limits based on observed data. For subsequent pages, the server uses both the cached data and the information in the page token to fine-tune the limits. Dictionary Compression : Further reducing data size while maintaining performance.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

Fine-tune Session Replay for your business purposes—examples. 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%. The following settings can be applied: Cost and traffic control : 100%.

Traffic 218

Traffic Tuning Strategy Website 218

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace as a managed AWS workload, and as an option, have the network traffic to Dynatrace run over PrivateLink so that traffic never leaves AWS. Stay tuned. Seamless monitoring of AWS Services running in AWS Cloud and AWS Outposts.

AWS 149

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 149

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. Configuring Firewalls for RabbitMQ Implementing a firewall for RabbitMQ is crucial in controlling network traffic and safeguarding the system against unauthorized entry.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

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. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families.

Innovation 241

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 241

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure. The ability to run in a degraded but available state during an outage is still a marked improvement over completely stopping traffic flow.

Traffic 225

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 225

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. So stay tuned! Automated SLA/SLO monitoring using the HTTP monitoring API.

Monitoring 261

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 261

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.

Java 208

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 208

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

Database 121

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 121

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

Traffic 164

Traffic Java Latency Google 164

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Whether tracking internal, workload-centric indicators such as errors, duration, or saturation or focusing on the golden signals and other user-centric views such as availability, latency, traffic, or engagement, SLOs-as-code enables coherent and consistent monitoring throughout the environment at scale.

Best Practices 203

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 203

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Network 52

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

It enables them to adapt to user feedback swiftly, fine-tune feature releases, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while maintaining control and minimizing disruption. They can also see how the change can affect critical objectives like SLOs and golden signals, such as traffic, latency, saturation, and error rate.

DevOps 231

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 231

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning. Teams need to verify and potentially adjust this tuning every time the application changes. Of these, WAF is much more commonly used today.

Open Source 187

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Traffic 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). Learn more about Dynatrace today with this Power Demo: Dynatrace and Business Observability: Tying IT Metrics to Business Outcomes.

Monitoring 217

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 217

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised. Instead of providing some improvement, it can unpredictably affect all the traffic. Will this work? We need to see the impact of the bad application on my production application.

Tuning 46

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 46

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Stay tuned. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time.

Open Source 261

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 261

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements. Requests from Mexico were previously routed to the US, which is no longer needed.

Latency 111

Latency Cache Tuning Traffic 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With the distribution of Kubernetes, there is growing interest in using service mesh technology to add secure service-to-service communication and fine-grained management of ingress/egress traffic rules while keeping platform operations teams in the driver’s seat.

Efficiency 247

Efficiency Best Practices DevOps Open Source 247

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Servers Network 40

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. The software also extends capabilities allowing fine-tuning consumption parameters through QoS (Quality of Service) prefetch limits catered toward balancing load among numerous consumers, thus preventing overwhelming any single consumer entity.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances.

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 125