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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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies. As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our approach to NN-based video downscaling The deep downscaler is a neural network architecture designed to improve the end-to-end video quality by learning a higher-quality video downscaler. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

In order to unleash the innovation organizations need to evolve their SRE approaches. More than half (51%) of SREs say they dedicate significant time to influencing architectural design decisions to improve reliability. Embrace experimentation and unleash exciting innovation. SRE adoption is growing, yet gaps remain.

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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. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But under the sheets there's literally thousands of innovations that each have their own diminishing return curve. We keep inventing new innovations. The innovation stack is very broad. If you want to make a lot of progress in computer architecture you need to start from scratch every 5 years.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

DevSecOps best practices provide guidelines to help organizations achieve efficient and secure application design, development, implementation, and management. Some DevSecOps best practices include the following: Security by design. The result is an improved ability to innovate. Disparate toolsets.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Development teams create and iterate on new software applications. Environmental forces.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. Tech Transforms podcast: It’s time to get familiar with generative AI – blog Generative AI can unlock boundless innovation. What is generative AI?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dynatrace recently announced the availability of its latest core innovations for customers running the Dynatrace® platform on Microsoft Azure, including Grail. Transforming business with Azure data analytics In the evolution towards digital and cloud-native solutions, the ability to efficiently manage vast amounts of data is imperative.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Common findings. How to get started.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Further improvements will take advantage of our innovative injection approach. Dynatrace news. Automated rollout of application observability.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the first blog post of this series , we explored how the Dynatrace ® observability and security platform boosts the reliability of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) CI/CD pipelines and enhances their ability to focus on innovation. This proactive approach reduces wait times and allows SREs to redirect their efforts toward innovation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

As we did with IBM Power , we’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Z and LinuxONE architecture (s390x). Dynatrace is designed to scale easily across the entire Kubernetes stack.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Improved Architecture In order to address the limitations of our initial architecture, we proceeded to make some optimizations.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Where traditional monitoring falls flat.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

These are hard problems, and solving them requires breaking away from old-guard relational database architectures. Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

What will the new architecture be? Session attendees will learn first-hand how Dynatrace natively integrates into the AWS Migration Hub to provide a full topology of on-prem workloads and dependencies in order to generate the ideal cloud-based architecture in the AWS cloud. What can we move?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” Modern cloud-native architectures leverage a completely different development paradigm compared to monolithic applications. Centralized applications.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. As you build applications and rely more and more on Lambda architectures you need full observability of all tiers of the supporting infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

These are hard problems, and solving them requires breaking away from old-guard relational database architectures. Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

But with this speed, agility, and innovation come new challenges. To combat these challenges, organizations need an IT culture that addresses security resilience from the outset—also known as security by design —which, in turn, supports business resilience. DevSecOps: Security by design. Read more now.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2024

Currently, there is a tough balance to achieve: Organizations need to innovate rapidly at scale, yet security remains paramount. Organizations across industries are embracing generative AI, a technology that promises faster development and increased productivity. However, security concerns linger despite the potential benefits.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Spiraling cloud architecture and application costs have driven the need for new approaches to cloud spend. The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. Nearly half (49%) of organizations believe their cloud bill is too high , according to a CloudZero survey. What is FinOps?

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

ACM is the culmination of our best practices and learning that we share every day with our customers to help them automate their enterprise, innovate faster, and deliver better business ROI. Market disruptions spark innovation and radical change. Embracing disruption and sparking innovation — the new way.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Across the cloud operations lifecycle, especially in organizations operating at enterprise scale, the sheer volume of cloud-native services and dynamic architectures generate a massive amount of data. In general, generative AI can empower AWS users to further accelerate and optimize their cloud journeys. So, what is artificial intelligence?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Therefore, the ingestion approach for data lineage is designed to work with many disparate data sources.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Every day, healthcare organizations across the globe have embraced innovative technology to streamline the delivery of patient care. As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation.

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