The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system. Created by Grafana Labs in 2018, Loki has rapidly emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional logging systems, particularly for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. It is designed for simplicity and cost-efficiency.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Protect data in multi-tenant architectures To bring you the most value by unifying observability and security in one analytics and automation platform powered by AI, Dynatrace SaaS leverages a multitenancy architecture, enabling efficient and scalable data ingestion, querying, and processing on shared infrastructure.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microservices architecture has revolutionized modern software development, offering unparalleled agility, scalability , and maintainability. However, effectively implementing microservices necessitates a deep understanding of best practices to harness their full potential while avoiding common pitfalls.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s evolving technological landscape, the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices is a strategic move for many businesses. This is particularly relevant in the domain of reimbursement calculation systems. As I mentioned in my previous article Part 1 , let's explore how such a transition can be effectively managed.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever. Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. Scalability: Serverless services automatically scale with the application's needs. Importance of Resiliency in Serverless Architecture As heavenly as serverless sounds, it isn't immune to failures.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot Overview One of the most popular Java EE frameworks for creating apps is Spring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This thoughtful approach doesnt just address immediate hurdles; it builds the resilience and scalability needed for the future. In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. Lets explore how this mindset drivesresults.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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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 request schema for the observability endpoint.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

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DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics. Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. Dynatrace news. This is great!

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

Journald provides unified structured logging for systems, services, and applications, eliminating the need for custom parsing for severity or details. For forensic log analytics use cases, the Security Investigator app benefits from the scalability and analytics power of Dynatrace Grail.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is widely used to build event-driven systems or decouple services on AWS. Benefits of Amazon SQS Amazon SQS is a highly reliable and scalable message queuing service that enables you to reliably connect your applications. It provides the following benefits:

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DZone

APRIL 1, 2025

Modern distributed systems, like microservices and cloud-native architectures, are built to be scalable and reliable. Chaos engineering is a useful way to test and improve system resilience by intentionally creating controlled failures. However, their complexity can lead to unexpected failures.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale. By Artenisa Chatziou

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The post It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)! Dynatrace news. And even Digital business analytics.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, microservices have emerged as a popular architectural pattern. This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process. But what exactly are microservices?

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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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DZone

MARCH 23, 2023

The most important aspect of this shift has been the move from traditional API architectures driven by monolithic applications to containerized microservices. This shift not only improved the scalability and flexibility of our systems, but it has also given rise to new ways of software development and deployment approaches.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures. By integrating observability tools in CI/CD pipelines, organizations can increase deployment frequency, minimize risks, and build highly available systems.

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2023

Microservices architecture has gained popularity recently as a technique for creating sophisticated and scalable software systems. Microservices are scalable, independently deployable services that talk to one another across a network.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately. It’s pretty much same thing, different day.

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