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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

We can experiment with different content placements or promotional strategies to boost visibility and engagement. Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. Consequently, the AI is founded upon the related events, and due to the detection parameters (threshold, period, analysis interval, frequent detection, etc), an issue arose. See the following example with BurnRate formula for Failure rate event.

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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. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops. The seven Rs of a cloud migration strategy with Dynatrace. Dynatrace news. Mobilize and plan.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. To harness this data effectively, we employ a process of interaction tokenization, ensuring meaningful events are identified and redundancies are minimized.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. Collectively, these strategies contribute to the stability and performance of the RabbitMQ cluster.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Business events like a marketing campaign. What trends are you seeing in the industry?

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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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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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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. So, what is IT automation?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Modern observability has evolved from simple metric telemetry monitoring to encompass a wide range of data, including logs, traces, events, alerts, and resource attributes. Instead, you receive an AI-generated summary as an affected deployment architecture diagram. Confirm the AI-detected root cause and review the deployment context.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

Over the past 18 months, the need to utilize cloud architecture has intensified. As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to the activity in their multi-cloud environments. Modern cloud-native environments rely heavily on microservices architectures.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Below is an example workflow from this repo for a basic deployment strategy: The GitHub workflow first sets the Azure cluster credentials using the set context Action. SLO validation – ?Automatically

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer and the Data Gateway Platform , both of which are integral to Netflix’s data architecture. Instead, we focus on addressing the challenge of storing and accessing extremely high-throughput, immutable temporal event data in a low-latency and cost-efficient manner.

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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. It’s more complex than it sounds.” As cloud entities multiply, along with greater reliance on microservices and serverless architectures, so do the complex relationships and dependencies among them.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Because of this, it is more critical than ever for organizations to leverage a modern observability strategy. The event focused on empowering and informing our valued partner ecosystems by providing updates on strategy, market opportunities, cloud modernization, and a wealth of crucial insights.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. More than 70% of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey now consider IT automation to be a strategic component of their digital transformation strategies. Check out the guide from last year’s event.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At its heart it uses Istio (for traffic control) and Knative (for event driven tool orchestration) and stores all configuration in Git – following the GitOps approach. Pitometer is used to validate a deployment after it was successfully tested based on the defined testing strategy. It takes your artifacts (e.g:

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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. This event-subscription-based integration mechanism allows you to stay tool agnostic.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2024

Security analysts are drowning, with 70% of security events left unexplored , crucial months or even years can pass before breaches are understood. After a security event, many organizations often don’t know for months—or even years—when, why, or how it happened.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

In the past, monolith architectures could only be implemented with big bang deployments which result in a slow pace of innovation and significant downtime. The goal of introducing these elements is to help you understand how can these strategies can be implemented, as well as their specific strengths and drawbacks for different use cases.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. After all, it’s key to sample and store traces efficiently while not missing out on important events.

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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. Therefore, these organizations need an in-depth strategy for handling data that AI models ingest, so teams can build AI platforms with security in mind.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Cloud observability is fast becoming an imperative as more organizations adopt multicloud IT strategies. To adapt, many are turning to AIOps and other automation technologies to solve the complex issues that accompany cloud-native architecture. Dynatrace news.

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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. This is now where Keptn, our Event-Driven Control Plane for Autonomous Cloud Control Plane, comes into the picture! Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

One of the aspects of progressive delivery is using new zero-downtime deployment strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, or Feature Flags. Those strategies allow development teams to decouple the tasks of deployment (rolling out a new binary to production) from releasing (making it accessible by your end-users). So – go ahead!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Here are five steps to creating a modern data stack and AI strategy for observability, AIOps, and application security. Your key business objectives will drive your strategy and metrics. Collecting logs, metrics, events, and trace data is great. Systems automatically generate logs, which record events that took place.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The growing challenge in modern IT environments is the exponential increase in log telemetry data, driven by the expansion of cloud-native, geographically distributed, container- and microservice-based architectures. In a unified strategy, logs are not limited to applications but encompass infrastructure, business events, and custom metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Types of late-arriving data Based on the structure of our upstream systems, we’ve classified late-arriving data into two categories, each named after the timestamps of the updated partition: Ways to process such data Our team previously employed some strategies to manage these scenarios, which often led to unnecessarily reprocessing unchanged data.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Improved compliance A better understanding of data security across multiple applications and environments provides a unified view of events and information. Security analytics vs. SIEM Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are staples of enterprise security. This offers two advantages for compliance.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

There are two main approaches to AIOps: Traditional AIOps: Machine learning models identify correlations between IT events. Thus, instead of merely correlating two or more events based on the time of their occurrence, deterministic AIOps goes deeper by identifying the underlying root cause that has triggered an event.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

While traditional AI relies on finding correlations in data, causal AI aims to determine the precise underlying mechanisms that drive events and outcomes. Therefore, causal AI is a useful deterministic AI technique that provides concrete answers about the source of events, not probabilistic outputs.

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