The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That’s where hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, comes in. What is hyperconverged infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management.

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Dynatrace

JULY 14, 2022

As federal agencies implement zero trust (ZT) as directed by the White House “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” there’s growing concern that zero trust architecture and great user experiences can’t coexist. Can zero trust architecture actually improve user experiences? See—and measure—everything.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

A zero trust architecture (ZTA) model comprises seven pillars to enhance the security posture of all organizations, from government agencies to private sector enterprises. The NSA advocates that properly securing the application layer and the supporting infrastructure is central to adopting ZTA. Software risk management.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? Immutable infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. The Greenplum Architecture. The Greenplum Architecture.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on modern observability for serverless architecture: As digital transformation accelerates, organizations need to innovate faster and continually deliver value to customers. Companies often turn to serverless architecture to accelerate modernization efforts while simplifying IT management.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These software entities act as data collectors, processors, and transmitters, gathering critical telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and network devices. By efficiently capturing, processing, and transmitting logs, metrics, and traces, observability agents provide a comprehensive view of system health and behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure. What is BPF?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DevSecOps teams can address this unsettling tradeoff by automating processes throughout the SDLC, centralizing application configuration with a shared set of tools, and using observability platforms to gain visibility into code-quality lapses, security gaps, and other software development issues.

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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). Captures metrics, traces, logs, and other telemetry data in context.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. Ingest and process with Grail. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dynatrace and the AWS Well-Architected Framework ensure continuous optimization of cloud architecture, aligning with the key pillars of operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. It accelerates the process of validating and optimizing cloud infrastructure.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The Serverless Process. Services scale to meet demand.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

The journey toward business observability Traditional IT monitoring that relies on a multitude of tools to collect, index, and correlate logs from IT infrastructure, networks, applications, and security systems is no longer effective at supporting the need of the wider organization for business insights. Operational optimization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Pensive infrastructure comprises two separate systems to support batch and streaming workloads. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure. In the future, we are looking to automate this process.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This integration simplifies the process of embedding Dynatrace full-stack observability directly into custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). This seamless integration accelerates cloud adoption, allowing enterprises to maximize the value of their AWS infrastructure and focus on innovation rather than managing observability configurations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes.

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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).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In many ways, the shift to cloud computing and the adoption of cloud-native architectures have enabled organizations to realize greater resiliency alongside scalability. But in a cloud-native world, resiliency must expand to include the ability for organizations to recover quickly from failures and ensure business continuity.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues. where an error occurred at the code level.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Based on IDC’s research, 83% of enterprises are rationalizing, or optimizing, their technology infrastructure. According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. What is application modernization?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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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

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every dollar we spend on cloud [infrastructure] is a dollar less we can spend on innovation and customer experience,” said Matthias Dollentz-Scharer, Dynatrace chief customer officer. Architecture. This includes writing code in the most efficient languages for each use case, a process that will be phased in over time.

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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. create a microservice; 2.

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