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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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. Default to managed services.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Without combining these signals in a unified AI-powered observability platform, monitoring apps, infrastructure, and troubleshooting issues are nothing more than a patchwork of manual correlation. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture. Next, set up log ingest. Are you running containerized applications on IBM Z?

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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. Dynatrace and AWS.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. The following figure shows the high-level architecture where any load testing solution (e.g.

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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. Recovery time of the latency p90. However, we noticed that GPT 3.5

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles. By tuning workflows, you can increase their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. Logs are automatically produced and time-stamped documentation of events relevant to cloud architectures.

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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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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. Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient. Dynatrace news. What are logs?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

AI-powered automation and deep, broad observability for serverless architectures. This, in turn, helps DevOps teams to pinpoint common problem patterns in their serverless functions rather than in an event-driven architecture. Stay tuned for updates. 2 Automatic detected queues anomaly by AI engine Davis. New to Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. Some companies are still using different tools for application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and log monitoring. AI-powered answers and additional context for apps and infrastructure, at scale.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Companies can choose whatever combination of infrastructure, platforms, and software will help them best achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of new apps and services while simultaneously baking in security measures. The tactical trifecta: development + security + operations. Rather, they’re about tactics.

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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. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently. Making use of serverless architecture. The Serverless Process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Lightweight architecture. The overall architecture – including the consolidated Dynatrace API – is shown below: Different problem visualizations build on top of a lightweight backend that uses the consolidated Dynatrace API. Getting the problem status of all environments has to be efficient. js framework. js framework.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. The architecture of RabbitMQ is meticulously designed for complex message routing, enabling dynamic and flexible interactions between producers and consumers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes.

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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. They have been great partners for us as we work on improving the Pensive infrastructure.

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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. Sharded Infrastructure : Leveraging the Data Gateway Platform , we can deploy single-tenant and/or multi-tenant infrastructure with the necessary access and traffic isolation.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. PostgreSQL Configuration Management & Tuning.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. Configuration as Code in Git repos, automatically applied by Dynatrace Analogous to infrastructure as code, Configuration as Code, or “everything as code” is now essential for tackling software development challenges.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

This is especially true when we consider the explosive growth of cloud and container environments, where containers are orchestrated and infrastructure is software defined, meaning even the simplest of environments move at speeds beyond manual control, and beyond the speed of legacy Security practices. And this poses a significant risk.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Automate as much as possible.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. For this visualization I used the same backend architecture as for the real-time visualization I presented previously. Stay tuned! Instead, we were able to focus on the relevant ones. Lessons learned.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context. Distributed traces are the path of a transaction as it touches applications, services, and infrastructure from beginning to end.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service? Architecture Putting this all together, below you can see a simplified view of the architecture. By transacting with a database which is monitored by a CDC connector that creates events, or b.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. It is easier to tune a large Spark job for a consistent volume of data. So how do we ingest all these s3 files? We named this library Sqooby.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

This context switching makes it hard for teams to effectively connect the dots when it comes to integrating the service-specific insights with surrounding architecture components such as service-mesh data. Specifically, teams must jump from tool to tool and page to page to extract the benefits of all the signals OpenTelemetry collects.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services. Most importantly, it’s impossible to establish relationships between infrastructure and application events, business impact, and real user events.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

DevOps practices have been established in the last decade to accomplish this goal and deal with the dynamics of modern, cloud-native software architectures. Such a template should contain a get-started tutorial, sample source-code framework, policy guardrails, CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure-as-code templates, and reference documentation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Infrastructure change events. Intelligent Monitoring Every service operator knows the difficulty of alert tuning.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

“We use AI to optimize the configuration of the software stack,” Doni said, highlighting how Akamas works by taking into account infrastructure and application metrics at the same time to achieve its optimization goals. “Additionally, we are full-stack and goal-oriented.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. Dynatrace news. Help with decision making. Promote automation. How SLOs work. SLO best practices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

At Dynatrace, where we provide a software intelligence platform for hybrid environments (from infrastructure to cloud) we see a growing need to measure how mainframe architecture and the services running on it contribute to the overall performance and availability of applications. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes.

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