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 response schema for the observability endpoint.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As more organizations embrace microservices-based architecture to deliver goods and services digitally, maintaining customer satisfaction has become exponentially more challenging. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. That’s because every company is now a software company. As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. That’s exactly what a software intelligence platform does.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many software delivery teams share the same pain points as they’re asked to support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives. Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Key ingredients required to deliver better software faster.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2024

An architectural pattern named Event Sourcing is gaining more and more recognition from developers who aim for strong and scalable systems. This article is aimed at software architects, system developers, and project managers who might be contemplating or are already engaged in integrating Event Sourcing into their systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At Dynatrace’s 2020 Perform Conference, we shared approaches for how our customers are using Dynatrace to help them “ Release Better Software Faster ”. Keptn is an event-based platform for continuous delivery and automated operations to help developers focus on code instead of witting tons of configuration and pipeline files.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dynatrace enables our customers to monitor and optimize their cloud infrastructure and applications through the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. A big part to the success within Dynatrace is that we use Dynatrace® across the software lifecycle on our own software projects. Dynatrace news. It happened in June 2020.

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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. Dynatrace news. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In an era dominated by automated, code-driven software deployments through Kubernetes and cloud services, human operators simply can’t keep up without intelligent observability and root cause analysis tools. This approach ensures that your operation teams have all the tools they need to manage modern software deployments.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The devil is in the detail, though because of the sheer number, breadth, and volatility of technologies used in modern architectures and the immense volume, velocity, and variety of data they produce. Just like the Dynatrace Platform, the Software Intelligence Hub is built with automation at its core.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

People from across the software architecture world came together in New York for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. The elephant in the architecture. Watch “ Where do great architectures come from?

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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). It also detects new containers and injects OneAgent code modules into application pods.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. At Dynatrace Perform, the annual software intelligence platform conference, we will highlight new integrations that eliminate toolchain silos, tame complexity, and automate DevOps practices.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Trace your application Imagine a microservices architecture with hundreds of dependencies. This architecture also means you’re not required to determine your log data use cases beforehand or while analyzing logs within the new logs app. Interact with data intuitively and easily and benefit from immediate, AI-supported insights.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As legacy monolithic applications give way to more nimble and portable services, the tools once used to monitor their performance are unable to serve the complex cloud-native architectures that now host them. Traces: A record of events that occur along the path of a single request. How does distributed tracing work?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Watch highlights from expert talks covering cloud-native programming, software architecture career advice, and more. People from across the software architecture world are coming together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. It does so by creating repeatable, automated software-driven processes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. Logs and events play an essential role in this mix; they include critical information which can’t be found anywhere else, like details on transactions, processes, users and environment changes.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kubernetes teams lack simple, consistent, vendor-agnostic architectures for analyzing observability signals across teams. This results in custom solutions that require throw-away work whenever a particular software solution is added or removed. The same page provides further analysis with workload logs and events.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Increasingly, organizations are exploring unified software platforms that eliminate data silos while offering both flexibility and extensibility to safeguard their investments and streamline their diverse tools. These events require triage, analysis, and remediation by the owners of the affected resources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Netflix software infrastructure is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers that are operated on the AWS and Netflix owned services. Flow Exporter The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Developing applications based on modern architectures comes with a challenge for release automation: integrating delivery of many services with similar processes but often with different technologies and tools along the delivery pipelines. However, the teams still share common patterns of processes to manage the software lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How does a data lakehouse—the combination of a data warehouse and a data lake—together with software intelligence, bring data insights to life? Further, these resources support countless Kubernetes clusters and Java-based architectures. Cost-effective architecture. And how can this combination unlock greater IT automation?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Deploying and safeguarding software services has become increasingly complex despite numerous innovations, such as containers, Kubernetes, and platform engineering. Recent global IT outages, such as the CrowdStrike incident, remind us how dependent society is on software that works perfectly.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Validating Deployments still seems to be a semi-automated task for most software delivery teams. OpenSource project which is part of keptn and it provides a good solution to automate the validation of a software deployment based on a list of indicators resulting in an overall deployment score. Dynatrace news. Why do I say that?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. It allows for the breaking up of heavy monolithic architectures into multiple serverless “functions.” Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news. Optimize timing hotspots.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As legacy monolithic applications give way to more nimble and portable services, the tools once used to monitor their performance are unable to serve the complex cloud-native architectures that now host them. Traces: A record of events that occur along the path of a single request. How does distributed tracing work?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

Observability is the new standard of visibility and monitoring for cloud-native architectures. It’s powered by vast amounts of collected telemetry data such as metrics, logs, events, and distributed traces to measure the health of application performance and behavior. AI-driven software intelligence.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Vulnerabilities can enter the software development lifecycle (SDLC) at any stage and can have significant impact if left undetected. Improved compliance A better understanding of data security across multiple applications and environments provides a unified view of events and information. This offers two advantages for compliance.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based Indeed, according to Dynatrace data, 71% of CIOs say the explosion of data from cloud-native architectures is beyond human ability to manage.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and Keptn – the Event-Driven Autonomous Cloud Control Plane – are helping our Dynatrace customers to automate their delivery and operations processes. Our engineering and delivery teams at Dynatrace have invested a lot of time building automation into the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments. ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. How observability works in a traditional environment.

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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. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

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