The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This nuanced integration of data and technology empowers us to offer bespoke content recommendations. Analytical Insights Additionally, impression history offers insightful information for addressing a number of platform-related analytics queries.

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Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Kafka is optimized for high-throughput event streaming , excelling in real-time analytics and large-scale data ingestion. Its architecture supports stream transformations, joins, and filtering, making it a powerful tool for real-time analytics. However, performance can decline under high traffic conditions.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

I bet you’re asking yourself – “Why should I as a technology person care about marketing?”, In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Java 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. In a nutshell, they are complementary and, in part, overlapping technologies to create, manage, and operate containers. Dynatrace news. But first, some background.

Open Source 334

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 334

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Customers can also proactively address issues using Davis AI’s predictive analytics capabilities by analyzing network log content, such as retries or anomalies in performance response times. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

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Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). PurePath 4 integrates OpenTelemetry Go data for enterprise-grade collection and contextual AI analytics. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Traffic 242

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 242

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. According to some data, organizations use an average of 10 network monitoring tools across their technology stacks because they lack a unified view of network activity.

Network 246

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring is the practice of using tools and technologies to gather and evaluate metrics as a customer navigates an application to determine the quality of a user’s interaction with its digital touchpoints. What is digital experience monitoring? Role of DEM in achieving end-to-end observability.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Organizations in every industry are engaged in some form of digital transformation, integrating technology into all areas of the business. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Traffic 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Implementing and maintaining DORA compliance can be resource-intensive, requiring skilled personnel, advanced technologies, and ongoing investment. Governance : Addresses organizational policies and procedures related to information and communication technology (ICT) risks. Resource constraints. Integration with existing processes.

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Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 290

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. And serverless support is a core capability.

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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.

Traffic 246

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

AWS provides a suite of technologies and serverless tools for running modern applications in the cloud. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Serverless technologies can reduce management complexity. AWS: A service for everything. Here are a few of the most popular. Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. With this announcement, Dynatrace brings the value of its AI engine, the scale, security, and automation of Dynatrace OneAgent and the scale of our platform (which can handle 50,000 hosts) to open source technologies so that you get the best of both worlds.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 264

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.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging. However, cloud-native technologies have introduced a level of complexity that make a logs-only approach to auditing and forensics limiting.

Java 246

Java Analytics Infrastructure Cloud 246

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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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 107

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. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Automate IT operations.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Session replay is a real user monitoring technology that creates video-like recordings — or snapshots — of how users navigate and interact with a company’s website or mobile application. Evaluate effectiveness after implementation with analytics and regular reports. Implement technical safeguards for how data is collected.

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Analytics Website Mobile Internet 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

By marrying observability agents with security analytics, Runtime Vulnerability Assessment can give you much more precise risk assessment, because the tools understand how third-party code is (or is not) being used by the application, as well as internet exposures and the business importance of each application.

Open Source 261

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

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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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 221

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This eliminates the need for creating ad hoc dashboards and figuring out which metrics to apply—it’s a one-stop shop for performance analytics and enabling an end-to-end visibility into the health state and performance of complex enterprise network infrastructures. Monitor Cisco and any other devices. Advanced load balancer analysis.

Network 246

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Technology to the rescue? (Though the three-second rule for page load time is often misinterpreted). CEOs of hybrid retailers prioritize e-commerce growth over in-store shopping, investing heavily in their online storefronts.

Retail 246

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 246

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. This also applies to logging use cases for certain technologies. Dynatrace news. All deviations are analyzed in the context of your environment topology.

Metrics 246

Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Traffic Manager. Use the technology overview and filter for Azure to access all newly added databases across all subscriptions. Azure HDInsight supports a broad range of use cases including data warehousing, machine learning, and IoT analytics. Azure Batch. Azure DB for MariaDB. Azure DB for MySQL. Azure DB for PostgreSQL.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 227

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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Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

Network 154

Network Tuning AWS Traffic 154

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. Apache and MySQL are among the technologies supported by OneAgent. Yet, we have two entries for these two services in our list.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Teams are embracing new technologies and continuously deploying code. Dynatrace news. In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success.

Cloud 306

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 306

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

bBy making your system observable and making use of the available tools and technologies (and logging is still one of them), you’ll be able to super-charge the information you can get from your runtime and spot issues and performance bottlenecks a lot easier.

Metrics 245

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 245

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics).

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

The paradigm spans across methods, tools, and technologies and is usually defined in contrast to analytical reporting and predictive modeling which are more strategic (vs. Operational Reporting Pipeline Example Iceberg Sink Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for huge analytics datasets. tactical) in nature.

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Big Data Government Processing Analytics 257

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. Predictive analytics, powered by AI, enhance business processes and optimize resource allocation according to workload demands. Key among these trends is the emphasis on security and intelligent analytics.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Cluster and container Log Analytics. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. Dynatrace’s PurePath technology brings us automatic end-to-end code level tracing without having to modify any code or configuration. 3 Log Analytics. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 170

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This is an attempt to fill in missing data for those pages that don’t get enough traffic to have meaningful user experience data. How they do this isn’t made clear, but URLs and technologies used on the page have been mentioned before. One thing I wanted to look at was the global distribution of the traffic. of traffic.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 144