The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When we launched the new Dynatrace experience, we introduced major updates to the platform, including Grail ™, our innovative data lakehouse unifying observability, security, and business data, and Dynatrace Query Language ( DQL ) for accessing and exploring unified data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In September, we announced the availability of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform on Microsoft Azure as a SaaS solution and natively in the Azure portal. Today, we are excited to provide an update that Dynatrace SaaS on Azure is now generally available (GA) to the public through Dynatrace sales channels. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Take your monitoring, data exploration, and storytelling to the next level with outstanding data visualization All your applications and underlying infrastructure produce vast volumes of data that you need to monitor or analyze for insights. Try different cell shapes. Use color coding to tell a story.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a hands-on demo that showcases how the Distributed Tracing app transforms raw OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights Set up the Demo To run this demo yourself, you’ll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant. If you don’t have one, you can use a trial account.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh?—?A A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A After evaluating the options , the team has decided to create Data Mesh as our next generation data pipeline solution.

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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. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Considering the latest State of Observability 2024 report, it’s evident that multicloud environments not only come with an explosion of data beyond humans’ ability to manage it. It’s increasingly difficult to ingest, manage, store, and sort through this amount of data. You can find the list of use cases here.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a result, it’s challenging to get business and resources focused on performance and error optimization without supporting data that shows how those optimizations will impact your organization’s financial outcomes. Get started Opportunity Insights is available with the Dynatrace Business Insights service.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Successful compliance with privacy rights requests involves tracking and verifying requests across the entire data ecosystem, including third-party services.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

By taking advantage of native Kubernetes standards, Dynatrace Cloud Native Full Stack injection empowers you to precisely provide the data that your teams need in exceptionally fast and automated ways. These situations apply to organizations that are looking to: Onboard teams to Kubernetes observability data as quickly as possible.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2021

Amazon CloudWatch gathers metric data from various services that run on AWS. Dynatrace ingests this data to perform root-cause analysis using the Dynatrace Davis® AI engine. This allows for fast and direct push of metric data from the source to Dynatrace. Currently Dynatrace requests CloudWatch data every five minutes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the labyrinth of data-driven architectures, the challenge of data integration—fusing data from disparate sources into a coherent, usable form — stands as one of the cornerstones. As businesses amass data at an unprecedented pace, the question of how to integrate this data effectively comes to the fore.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. However, there are many obstacles and limitations along the way to becoming a data-driven organization. Understanding the context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. We expect complete and accurate data at the end of each run.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

While this approach can be effective if the model is trained with a large amount of data, even in the best-case scenarios, it amounts to an informed guess, rather than a certainty. But to be successful, data quality is critical. Teams need to ensure the data is accurate and correctly represents real-world scenarios. Consistency.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As an industry leader, Dynatrace promotes primarily using software and AI to deal with this complexity at scale instead of just putting data on dashboards. Does that mean that reactive and exploratory data analysis, often done manually and with the help of dashboards, are dead? Why today’s data analytics solutions still fail us.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, the Parliament of India released the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , which regulates the processing of digital personal data in India and recognizes the right of individuals to protect their data in India.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

The jobs executing such workloads are usually required to operate indefinitely on unbounded streams of continuous data and exhibit heterogeneous modes of failure as they run over long periods. In Kafka Streams, a large configuration space is available for potential optimizations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2. For instance, Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers scale, file-level security, and file system semantics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

These media focused machine learning algorithms as well as other teams generate a lot of data from the media files, which we described in our previous blog , are stored as annotations in Marken. Similarly, client teams don’t have to worry about when or how the data is written. in a video file.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

I have ingested important custom data into Dynatrace, critical to running my applications and making accurate business decisions… but can I trust the accuracy and reliability?” ” Welcome to the world of data observability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Tables are a physical data model, essentially the type of observability data that you can store.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Predictive AI uses machine learning, data analysis, statistical models, and AI methods to predict anomalies, identify patterns, and create forecasts. This data-driven approach fosters continuous refinement of processes and systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. More in the following sub-section.)

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While Python code can address most data acquisition and ingest requirements, it comes at the cost of complexity in implementation and use-case modeling. address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: available, and more are in the pipeline. Extensions 2.0

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Azure observability and Azure data analytics are critical requirements amid the deluge of data in Azure cloud computing environments. As digital transformation accelerates and more organizations are migrating workloads to Azure and other cloud environments, they need observability and data analytics capabilities that can keep pace.

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