The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cloud-native architectures have brought immense complexity along with increased business agility. But with this complexity comes fragility and lack of transparency into system performance and reliability.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A performance engineer is actually a professional performance testing and engineering expert with in-depth knowledge of many load-testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Neoload, Gatling, K6, etc., and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Enterprise adoption with self-service: To facilitate enterprise adoption while minimizing tool sprawl and data silos, Dynatrace allows observability teams and platform engineers to implement a self-service model for developers. They can even combine this with data from external sources or add custom code to address bespoke requirements.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article delves into the paradigm shift from traditional to real-time data integration, examines its architectural nuances, and contemplates its profound impact on decision-making and business processes. The new norm is real-time data integration, and it’s transforming the way companies make decisions and conduct their operations.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” Atlassian Jira.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. ” it helps to understand the monolithic architectures that preceded them. Understanding monolithic architectures.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. ” it helps to understand the monolithic architectures that preceded them. Understanding monolithic architectures.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is intended for data scientists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and advanced practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence who have a solid grounding in machine learning concepts, natural language processing , and deep learning architectures.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams. SRE focuses on automation.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Five of the most common include cluster instability, resource and cost management, security, observability, and stress on engineering teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba Over the past few years Content Engineering at Netflix has been transitioning many of its services to use a federated GraphQL platform. In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2025

Streamlining site reliability at scale can be daunting, particularly with large-scale AWS environments and architecture that rely on hundredsor even thousandsof Amazon EC2 instances. This step-by-step guide will show you how to configure your architecture to trigger guardians whenever EC2 tags are updated.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. Dynatrace news. This is great!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Fault tolerance The ability of a system to continue to be dependable (both available and reliable) in the presence of certain component or subsystem failures.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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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. It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Following are some of the coolest things weve seen engineers do with Live Debugger. You can verify any system settings that might impact your tests and see them in action. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The post It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)! Dynatrace news. And even Digital business analytics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

False positives are instances where the system incorrectly identifies a regular event as an anomaly, leading to unnecessary investigative efforts and operational delays. This article delves into a specialized approach for anomaly detection that makes extensive use of a rule-based engine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures. By integrating observability tools in CI/CD pipelines, organizations can increase deployment frequency, minimize risks, and build highly available systems.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily. Below are a couple of examples.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration.

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