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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today, organizations must adopt solid modernization strategies to stay competitive in the market. According to a recent IDC report , IT organizations need to create a modernization and rationalization plan that aligns with their overall digital transformation strategy. Crafting an application modernization strategy.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

In response, many organizations are adopting a FinOps strategy. Suboptimal architecture design. Forecasting and budgeting A FinOps strategy involves forecasting future cloud costs and budgeting accordingly to align spending with business goals and objectives. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. In the following sections, we’ll explore various strategies for achieving durable and accurate counts. Clients can use this token to safely retry or hedge their requests.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

When you are preparing your application for release, an efficient initial strategy is to integrate a single payment service. Having a diverse payment system is crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, to leverage local payment methods, and to maintain control over costs.

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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. But, as resources move off premises, IT teams often lack visibility into system performance and security issues. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 1, 2023

As digital transformation accelerates, organizations turn to hybrid and multicloud architectures to innovate, grow, and reduce costs. But the complexity and scale of multicloud architecture invites new enterprise challenges. Security vulnerabilities can easily creep into IT systems and create costly risks.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. Consumers expect personalized, proactive, and convenient service, which traditional application architectures often struggle to provide. Improved customer experience. Competitive advantage.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. 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.

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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. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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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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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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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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DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture, enabling seamless integration and communication among disparate systems. Effective API management is critical to ensuring that these interfaces are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As part of this initiative, including migration-ready assessments, and to avoid potentially catastrophic security issues, companies must be able to confidently answer: What is our secure digital transformation strategy in the cloud? For decades, it had employed an on-premises infrastructure running internal and external facing services.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2024

Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP ) is the cornerstone of the internet's routing architecture, enabling data exchange between different autonomous systems (AS’s) and ensuring seamless communication across diverse networks. However, the complexity of BGP can make troubleshooting a daunting task, even for experienced network engineers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Applications must migrate to the new mechanism, as using the deprecated file upload mechanism leaves systems vulnerable. This blog post dissects the vulnerability, explains how Struts processes file uploads, details the exploit mechanics, and outlines mitigation strategies. Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Thinking about going multi-cloud?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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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. But what is observability? Why is it important, and what can it actually help organizations achieve? What is observability?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis monitoring is essential for any tech professional. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

In today’s digital-first world, data resides across dozens of different IT systems, from critical business applications to the modern cloud platforms that underpin them. With hybrid and multi-cloud architectures rendering organizations’ environments more complex and distributed, cloud observability has become increasingly important.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. Neotys and T-Systems MMS are amongst the first companies to build extensions. Beyond basic metrics: Detecting Architectural Regressions.

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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. However, turning those logs into meaningful insights requires a data lakehouse.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities. Above all, companies modernize and adopt a multicloud strategy to innovate, scale, and increase efficiency. AIOps strategy central to proactive multicloud managemen t – blog.

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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. As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components. Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy. Operations analytics ensures IT systems perform as expected.

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