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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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? Greenplum Advantages.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Kafka is optimized for high-throughput event streaming , excelling in real-time analytics and large-scale data ingestion. RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker that supports multiple messaging protocols , including AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and RabbitMQ Streams. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. With Grail, we have reinvented analytics for converged observability and security data,” Greifeneder says. Logs on Grail Log data is foundational for any IT analytics. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Dynatrace Grail  is a data lakehouse that provides context-rich analytics capabilities for observability, security, and business data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Metrics can originate from a variety of sources, including infrastructure, hosts, services, cloud platforms, and external sources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform for organizations adopting open source solutions to manage, scale, and automate application deployment. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. What is Kubernetes?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). What is Kubernetes?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. A full-stack observability solution uses telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces to give IT teams insight into application, infrastructure, and UX performance.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace has supported the OpenTelemetry project for years as a key contributor and contributed to its rise to a popular open source observability framework for cloud-native software. By ingesting OTLP logs into Dynatrace, you can utilize the Grail™ data lakehouse and its massively-parallel processing analytics engine.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Infrastructure as code is also known as software-defined infrastructure, or software intelligence as code.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail needs to support security data as well as business analytics data and use cases. With that in mind, Grail needs to achieve three main goals with minimal impact to cost: Cope with and manage an enormous amount of data —both on ingest and analytics. High-performance analytics—no indexing required.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. Native support for open-source log data frameworks, Fluentd and Logstash.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The cloud-based, on-demand execution model of serverless architecture helps teams innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. Simply put, cloud-based serverless architecture helps teams maximize performance while also reducing the cost of maintaining IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

We hear from our customers how important it is to have a centralized, quick, and powerful access point to analyze these logs; hence we’re making it easier to ingest AWS S3 logs and leverage Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail. However, as a first step, logs from S3 need to be ingested into Dynatrace Grail.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

After a decade of helping companies manage container orchestration, Kubernetes, the open source container platform, has established itself as a mature enterprise technology. The company receives tens of thousands of requests per second on its edge layer and sees hundreds of millions of events per hour on its analytics layer.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

The platform allows MySQL AWS administrators to automate their time-consuming database operations in the cloud and improve their performance with high availability, disaster recovery, polyglot persistence, and advanced monitoring and analytics.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. Telegraf is an open-source agent by Influxdata. With the addition of a secure local REST API, we’ll soon bring this to other open-source metric providers like Spring Micrometer or OpenTelemetry metrics.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In what follows, we explore some key cloud observability trends in 2023, such as workflow automation and exploratory analytics. From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2022

The OpenTelemetry project was created to address the growing need for artificial intelligence-enabled IT operations — or AIOps — as organizations broaden their technology horizons beyond on-premises infrastructure and into multiple clouds. OpenTelemetry was purposely conceived to complement — and not compete with — existing analytical tools.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Organizations can also optimize their infrastructure usage, achieving a better return on their technology spend. With less time spent in the weeds hunting for root causes of application and infrastructure performance issues, DevOps teams can enjoy increased productivity, and the organization can reduce its operational costs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A central element of platform engineering teams is a robust Internal Developer Platform (IDP), which encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications. When the semantics of this metadata are well-defined, you can build insightful analytics and robust automation.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, teams have begun to apply DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation, giving developers a more active role with GitOps as an operational framework. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2024

We estimate that Dynatrace can automate the majority of repetitive tasks and additional compliance burdens introduced by DORA technical requirements using analytics and automation based on observability and security data. Financial institutions face an increased compliance burden with DORA.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The development of internal platform teams has taken off in the last three years, primarily in response to the challenges inherent in scaling modern, containerized IT infrastructures. The ability to effectively manage multi-cluster infrastructure is critical to consistent and scalable service delivery.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Foundation & Discovery enables customers to extend in-depth visibility into tier 2 and tier 3 applications, allowing IT teams to maintain robust oversight without incurring prohibitive additional costs for broad Full-Stack or Infrastructure Monitoring mode deployments.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Open source software is likewise playing a larger role in cloud computing, which brings benefits and dilemmas: bad actors have ready access to open source software and can identify new vulnerabilities to exploit. This includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces from all applications and infrastructure components.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As with all other log ingestion configurations, these examples work seamlessly with the new Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail that provides answers with any analysis at any time. Yet observability into syslog data on Dynatrace would help you monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure. Log ingestion strategy no.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Amazon EC2.

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