The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. Analytical Insights Additionally, impression history offers insightful information for addressing a number of platform-related analytics queries.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. This opens up new analytics use case to e.g: Dynatrace news. SimpleNodeJsService. test name, test step.

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath unlocks precise and actionable analytics across the software lifecycle in heterogenous cloud-native environments. Dynatrace provides information on every request, through every single microservice or serverless function, seamlessly integrating OpenTelemetry, with powerful analytics, including: Out-of-the-box service hotspot analysis.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. Deep-code execution details.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). Google Analytics Becomes A Robust Testing Platform With Content Experiments API ( Google Analytics Blog).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The more data ingestion channels you provide to the Dynatrace Davis® AI engine, the more comprehensive Dynatrace automated root cause analysis becomes. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

The “normal” set up, is that marketers will be looking at their web-analytics solutions, whilst the IT operations team are looking at their monitoring but neither are connected or talking with one another about what is going on in each other’s team. And throughout my career, it’s something I’ve seen time and time again.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams. Moreover, the Davis AI engine assists in prioritizing what needs to be fixed first. Dynatrace Security Analytics can also improve the effectiveness and efficiency of threat hunts.

Best Practices 290

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel. Through the RUM data, Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis, detected seven users were impacted by the outage when they tried to access the Web Interface.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). OneAgent takes care of auto-instrumentation and creation of the Smartscape model, which enables the Davis AI causation engine.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

On the Dynatrace Business Insights team, we have developed analytical views and an approach to help you get started. A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. What challenges will organizations face to optimize Core Web Vitals?

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? The AI engine AI delivers precise answers about the IT environment. These answers are instant, automatic, and continuous.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. By automatically feeding these captured metrics into our Smartscape topology model and Davis AI, we eliminate the need for manual maintenance of hundreds of alerts thanks to our true and trusted auto-adaptive baseline engine. Stay tuned.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Frederick O’Brien.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Python has long been a popular programming language in the networking space because it’s an intuitive language that allows engineers to quickly solve networking problems. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

EasyTrade Analytics is a hypothetical stockbroker app developed by two members of the Platform enablement team, Sinisa Zubic and Edu Campver. An app to create alerts that could be sent to their engineers. An app for helping diagnose bot traffic. An app with a highly customizable dashboard for a call center.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For engineers, instead of whodunit, the question is often “what failed and why?” An engineer can find herself digging through logs, poring over traces, and staring at dozens of dashboards. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. the trace, logs, analysis?—?and

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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). How automatic and intelligent AIOps makes DEM and business observability possible.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

Although Dynatrace can’t help with the manual remediation process itself , end-to-end observability, AI-driven analytics, and key Dynatrace features proved crucial for many of our customers’ remediation efforts. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Automate IT operations.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace provides advanced observability across on-premises systems and cloud providers in a single platform, providing application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Artificial Intelligence-driven operations (AIOps), code-level execution, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and digital business analytics.

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Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 9, 2017

These insights range from in-the-moment traffic conditions that provide guidance on trip routes to the Estimated Time of Delivery (ETD) of an UberEATS … The post Introducing AthenaX, Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. The F5 BIG-IP LTM extension offers a complete view, beyond simple metrics, into your Local Traffic Manager (LTM) platform. Monitor Cisco and any other devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code. AWS Lambda. AWS monitoring best practices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle. Once the testing results are successful, application traffic is routed from blue to green. Response time for blue/green environment traffic.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Instead of manually looking for meaning in logs and reacting to discovered insights, you can hand the job over to the Dynatrace Davis® AI causation engine.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Imagine having an AI engine that comprehends the complete context of the transaction and intelligently determines whether to send a discount code—and which one to send. Full contextual awareness helps the AI engine make informed decisions. Has the user purchased this product before?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. All this comes with the Dynatrace zero-configuration approach, automatic service detection, continuous data capture in context, and answers, not just data, from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine, making you ready for large-scale Azure deployments. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB. Azure DB for MySQL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cassandra serves as the backbone for a diverse array of use cases within Netflix, ranging from user sign-ups and storing viewing histories to supporting real-time analytics and live streaming. Item-level deletes create many tombstones but KV hides that storage engine complexity via TTL-based deletes with jitter.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

Such test automation tools not only provide smart automation but also offer intelligent analytics to address any test challenges. 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. Statistics Overview. Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1

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