The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Retrieval-augmented generation emerges as the standard architecture for LLM-based applications Given that LLMs can generate factually incorrect or nonsensical responses, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as an industry standard for building GenAI applications.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. APM provides real-time visibility into the status and performance of applications. Website monitoring.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whats unique and innovative about your service?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Cloud application security remains challenging because organizations lack end-to-end visibility into cloud architecture. As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they must balance the agility that microservices architecture brings with the complexity and lack of transparency that can also come with it.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. Manual troubleshooting is painful, hurts the business, and slows down innovation. Explore your logs in multicloud environments and analyze them in the context of your architecture. What’s next.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Over time as new key-value databases were introduced and service owners launched new use cases, we encountered numerous challenges with datastore misuse.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. To drive better outcomes using hybrid cloud architectures, it helps to understand their benefits—and how to orchestrate them seamlessly. What is hybrid cloud architecture?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform By David Henry & Mel Yahya Over the last few years Netflix has been developing a mobile app called Prodicle to innovate in the physical production of TV shows and movies. The need for fast product delivery led us to experiment with a multiplatform architecture.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

These range from the simple lift-and-shift re-hosting approach to the significant architectural changes involved in refactoring. “We set up Dynatrace dashboards to help us see the response times of the database and the orders being placed on a day-to-day basis. . For each on-premises application, Tractor Supply Co.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This will allow your IT team to focus on what matters – proactive action, innovation, and business results. Dynatrace news. It’s not hype, it’s the way forward.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. Progressive delivery Next up, Adam Gardner, staff engineer at Dynatrace, talked about using observability for faster innovation in production to enhance new releases.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Vincent Lascoux, chief operating officer at Odigo, at Dynatrace Innovate in Barcelona. In its efforts to become more efficient, Odigo moved to public cloud architecture to speed its modernization and digital transformation. Moreover, today, observability is now woven into the fabric of how BT operates and innovates.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. A new record entering a database table. Tasks like API requests, database calls, and file system management are perfect candidates for this service.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2022

That’s why hybrid cloud architecture is a key tool in the arsenal for organizations striving to grow, modernize, and innovate. build microservices-based architecture. The roadmap includes the following: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface tracing. Java Message Service (JMS) interface tracing.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. This is an Innovation release. Updated Release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.0

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. It should be open by design to accelerate innovation, enable powerful integration with other tools, and purposefully unify data and analytics. Enter Grail-powered data and analytics.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 28, 2019

Innovation has always been part of the Amazon DNA, but about 20 years ago, we went through a radical transformation with the goal of making our iterative process—" invent, launch, reinvent, relaunch, start over, rinse, repeat, again and again "—even faster.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

In the rest of this blog, we will a) touch on the complexity of Netflix cloud landscape, b) discuss lineage design goals, ingestion architecture and the corresponding data model, c) share the challenges we faced and the learnings we picked up along the way, and d) close it out with “what’s next” on this journey.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Traditionally, these connections have been stored in relational databases, with each object type requiring its own table. Enter graph databases.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This architecture also means you are not required to determine your log data use cases beforehand or while analyzing logs within the new logs app. If your team deploys applications cloud-natively, we meet you there, too, as we recently covered in our blog post, Dynatrace log management innovations: Syslog, AWS Firehose.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

For IT teams seeking agility, cost savings, and a faster on-ramp to innovation, a cloud migration strategy is critical. Cloud migration enables IT teams to enlist public cloud infrastructure so an organization can innovate without getting bogged down in managing all aspects of IT infrastructure as it scales. Dynatrace news. Repurchase.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases.

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Percona

AUGUST 9, 2023

MySQL 8 brought a significant architectural transformation by replacing the traditional MyISAM-based system tables with the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD), a more efficient and reliable approach. The primary goal of the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD) is to enhance the overall performance, stability, and scalability of MySQL databases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Dynatrace news. Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. ALTER EVENT SESSION [ ADS_Standard_Azure ] ON DATABASE. DROP EVENT sqlserver.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. via bug fixes).

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. It’s possible that microservices architecture is hastening the move to other languages (such as Go, Rust, and Python) for web properties.

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