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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

By Jose Fernandez , Ed Barker , Hank Jacobs Introduction In November 2022, we introduced a brand new tier —  Basic with ads. 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.

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How To Implement Video Information and Editing APIs in Java

DZone

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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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

By Jennifer Shin , Tejas Shikhare , Will Emmanuel In 2022, a major change was made to Netflix’s iOS and Android applications. 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.

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Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Dynatrace

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development.

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What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

According to the 2022 CISO Research Report , only 25% of respondents’ security teams “can access a fully accurate, continuously updated report of every application and code library running in production in real-time.” Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns.

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