The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 278

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Compatibility.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Also: infrastructure and operations is trending up, while DevOps is trending down. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

Software Architecture 145

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 145

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation. These joint efforts took several weeks for both parties.

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Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 227

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. Note that this sample flame graph is dominated by Java, shown by the green frames. ## 4. Configuration There was only one use of ZFS so far at Netflix that I knew of: A new infrastructure project was using ZFS for containers.

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Cache Cloud Code Java 141

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. Just for illustration, this shows the Vector UI and a typical cloud flame graph: Note that this sample flame graph is dominated by Java, shown by the green frames. A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue.

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Cache Cloud Java Tuning 52