The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

The impetus for constructing a foundational recommendation model is based on the paradigm shift in natural language processing (NLP) to large language models (LLMs). To harness this data effectively, we employ a process of interaction tokenization, ensuring meaningful events are identified and redundancies are minimized.

Tuning 165

Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy 165

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring. Dynatrace news.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Back during Perform 2019, we introduced the next generation of the Dynatrace AI causation engine , also known as Davis. Follow transaction context and seamlessly analyze all the available full-stack information during root-cause detection. Leverage the power of Davis AI with custom time-series events for your specific use cases.

Engineering 69

Engineering Serverless Metrics Code 69

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

Auer oversees the initiative to maintain the performance and availability of SAP Commerce Cloud , which underpins more than 3,500 e-commerce sites in more than 200 countries, processing transactions worth $500 billion annually. When the site is slow, if the checkout process is not working, you might choose to buy somewhere else.

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Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 246

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Here is a roundup of front end web development trends to keep an eye on in 2019. Frontend Frameworks If you’re not using a frontend framework like React, Vue.js, or Angular to help build your projects, then 2019 is a good year to start. IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon are all exploring new ways to use blockchains in 2019.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. 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. Not available. Not available. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our journey began in 2019 with the introduction of the Dynatrace Citrix monitoring extension. Listen, learn, improve, and repeat The latest update to the Citrix monitoring extension is now available. Dynatrace collects various metrics, including the number of VDAs, active sessions, available desktops, and more.

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Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in May 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP monitoring extension. SAP technology and process awareness. SAP monitoring in Dynatrace is greatly enhanced by SAP process awareness and dependency monitoring. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 218

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 218

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

In 2019, Containerd became the 5th project to reach CNCF’s highest maturity level, graduation. Containerd monitoring support is now available in a Beta release for all Kubernetes-based platforms (version 1.11+). Containerd monitoring support now includes: Automatic monitoring of processes in containerd containers.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Analytics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The computation is done as a first step so that it is available for the rest of the request lifecycle. Given that a relatively small amount of requests impact streaming availability, throttling low priority traffic may affect certain product features but will not prevent members pressing “play” and watching their favorite show.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 261

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. SAP GUI delivered via Citrix – a process on Citrix VDA. Dynatrace news. Citrix VDA.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Thankfully, any company that has folk in customer support can make use of a new web platform feature to make the entire process a breeze: Clear-Site-Data. —through different screens, menus, and dropdowns is a big ask. Something maybe a little like this: const referer = req. get ( ' Referer ' ); if ( referer ' [link] ' ) { res. status ( 403 ).

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Cache Operating System Availability Development 226

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. They predicted this figure would jump to 75% by 2022.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

Improved Oracle process recognition. Previously, all Oracle processes were represented by one Oracle process group and one Oracle process group instance on each host. Starting with OneAgent version 1.173, each Oracle process group will represent a single Oracle SID (unique identifier for every Oracle DB instance).

Java 154

Java Cloud Traffic Virtualization 154

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Once deployed, the Dynatrace for Kubernetes – now in general availability – can be used and provides a cluster-level workload view of the environment, as shown below.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2020

Synthetic monitoring locations execute browser and HTTP monitors from within your own infrastructure and answer questions about the availability of applications (internal and external) from the perspective of specific points of interest such as branch offices. Dynatrace news. What’s next.

Monitoring 189

Monitoring Hardware Servers Infrastructure 189

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB offers significantly lower latency which allows you to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. This number is more inline with our recent 2019 Open Source Database Trends Report where 56.9% As we also found from the 2019 Open Source Database Report, organizations on average leverage 3.1 The remaining 13.0%

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

In order to avoid this, it was announced at KubeCon 2019 in Barcelona that the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects would converge into one project called OpenTelemetry and join the CNCF. The in-process Exporter allows you to configure which backed(s) you want the telemetry sent. binary, daemonset, sidecar) .

Open Source 246

Open Source Metrics Google Java 246

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

At the same time, there are concerns regarding fairness and the availability of authors/reviewers to allow a mechanism like this. Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019. Feedback is welcome from the communities on whether we could introduce such efforts in our future conferences. .

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 206

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

support has been extended and will reach end-of-life in November 2019. x (Pivotal support for this version ended in April 2019. Cloud Foundry Gorouter metrics are now also available on Process group pages (as Technology-specific metrics). PCF PAS version v2.2.x Cloud Platform support. Cloud Foundry.

Java 145

Java Metrics Cloud Processing 145

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature! This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. How Does Image Processing Work? For example, the query string ?

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Processing Cache Network Latency 13

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The supported programming languages for PostgreSQL include.Net, C, C++, Delphi, Java, JavaScript (Node.js), Perl, PHP, Python and Tcl, but PostgreSQL can support many server-side procedural languages through its available extensions. The most popular process for PostgreSQL VACUUM is the built-in autovacuum , being leveraged by 37.5%

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30. The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30. General availability (Build 1.197.129). Fixed possible crash of Go processes when enabling Infrastructure Monitoring mode. Oracle Hotspot JVM 12. OpenJDK 12. SAP JVM 9, 10.

Java 180

Java Operating System Infrastructure Monitoring 180

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

Dynatrace

JULY 3, 2019

Dynatrace has long empowered you with the capability to detect problems in performance and availability, as well as application errors, with full-stack insights and root-cause analysis. When a web application or mobile app process doesn’t respond quickly, users may repeatedly click the affected UI control in helpless frustration.

Analytics 176

Analytics Tuning Mobile Monitoring 176

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Monaco also fits to the GitOps process and mindset – where one describes the desired state of the whole system using a declarative specification for each environment. This second set of steps onboard a service and when the service SLI processing rules change. Example #4 – Automated release validation. Try it yourself.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source DevOps 246

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration.

Software Architecture 145

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 145

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2019

Support for PHP NG (PHP next generation) monitoring is now available as a Early adopter release. Improved grouping of Citrix processes. support has been extended and will reach end-of-life in November 2019. x (Pivotal support for this version ended in April 2019. x (Pivotal support for this version ends in June 2019.

Java 150

Java AWS Cloud Infrastructure 150

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in October 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP real user monitoring. Support and availability. Dynatrace news. While powerful, SAP performance management tools like the SAP Solution Manager are also complex.

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Performance Network Infrastructure 213

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

client is now generally available. in November 2019 as it reached end-of-life on June, 27th 2019. support has been extended and will reach end-of-life in November 2019. x (End of general support by Pivotal in August 2019) OneAgent version 1.179 is the last version that supports PCF version 2.3.x. or higher.

Java 133

Java Traffic AWS Monitoring 133

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 233

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 233

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

A container (or a pod) running on a node may eat up all the available CPU or memory and affect all other pods on the node, degrading performance (or worse) and preventing any new workload to be scheduled on the node. Mentioned above, CPU is a compressible resource ; you can always allocate fewer or shorter CPU time slices to a process.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 278