The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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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. Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. Plus, the architecture of the Edge tier was evolving to a PaaS (platform as a service) model, and we had some tough decisions to make about how, and where, to handle identity token handling. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. . – Agile.

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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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP Basis teams have established best practices for managing their SAP systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. The solution which we present in this blog is not limited to annotations and can be used for any other domain which uses ES and Cassandra as well. Marken Architecture Marken’s architecture diagram is as follows. This is obviously very expensive.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By deploying applications as many separate microservices managed by Kubernetes, these environments can become complicated, especially if the organization has a multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud architecture, or is using elements of a legacy-cloud environment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation?

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments. at Venetian Delfino 4006.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. In this context, they refer to a count very close to accurate, presented with minimal delays. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models. What will the new architecture be?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. An AMET is an architecture Enabling Team that helps to coordinate and upskill all teams and stakeholders involved in a modernization initiative. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During the Dynatrace annual user conference, Perform , the Partner Summit session returned, welcoming Global System Integrators (GSIs), Hyperscalers, and Cloud Solutions Partners to participate. Partners play a crucial role in driving cloud migrations and digital transformation for customers, ensuring return on their investments are realized.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. Decision trees and dashboards are two common visualization methods that present complex data in an easily readable format. Therefore, organizations need new capabilities, such as explainable AI, now more than ever.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

During the implementation of the real-time visualization I presented in part three , I had an idea for another visualization; I wanted to visualize the number of detected problems globally, for a longer timeframe. This is what I wanted to optimize and avoid and many traditional (or homegrown) systems aren’t doing this.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. This smart baselining capability drew great interest.

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. A big factor in good Digital Performance is the back-end system that powers your digitally offered use-cases. At our PerformGO!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Dynatrace third-party vulnerabilities solution provides key capabilities for detailed and continuous insights into vulnerable software components present in an IT system. The example in figure 3 demonstrates the function tracking functionality explained above on a real-world example using the architecture of the Spring Framework.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I wanted to present as much information as possible. This is where the consolidated API, which I presented in my last post , comes into play. Lightweight architecture. A quick look into the problem details of a few environments revealed an issue with a VMWare storage system that was impacting them all. js framework.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Application and system logs are often collected in data silos using different tools, with no relationships between them, and then correlated in manual and often meaningless ways.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

Though, it’s typically impossible to remediate all known security vulnerabilities so enterprises need a better solution for identifying those detected security vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk. Teams also use information about applications or system architecture for prioritization.

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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

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. At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities. For executives, these directives present several challenges, including compliance complexity, resource allocation for continuous monitoring, and incident reporting.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Working within the time budget introduces an extra resource constraint for the recommender system. It is important to point out that the user’s time budget, like their preferences, may not be directly observable and the recommender system may have to learn that in addition to the user’s latent preferences.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But DIY projects require extensive planning and careful consideration, including choosing the right technology stack, outlining the application’s framework, selecting a design system for the user interface, and ensuring everything is secure, compliant, and scalable to meet the requirements of large enterprises.

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