The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

A workflow definition is defined in a JSON format. Maestro combines user-supplied fields with those managed by Maestro to form a flexible and powerful orchestration definition. A Maestro workflow definition comprises two main sections: properties and versioned workflow including its metadata.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

Given our relatively frequent releases, this means that you can benefit from 11 to 12 OneAgent updates a year that are deployed as soon as they are available for your environment. Definition of an update window with daily recurrence. Definition of update window with monthly recurrence. a one-off event). a one-off event).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

Availability guarantee of 99.95%/month for customers with an active Enterprise Success and Support subscription. Enhanced uptime measurement Our new SLA is tailored to reflect our current product offering and includes broad coverage of product functionality in the availability definitions.

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DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The workload availability, scaling, and network are managed by ECS. In order to deploy a workload to ECS, an ECS task definition needs to be created, which will define the Docker image that needs to be used, the name of the service, and the type of launch. ECR holds all the Docker images.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

The release of property packs earlier this year a pack – named “Web properties” – was added and it contains the UTM parameter capture definition allowing you to add these data points with 3 clicks. In the next step change, the UTM campaign parameter to also be a user action property by editing the definition as shown on the screenshot below.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2022

A new preview section enables you to test the definition iteratively against actual values before creating the SLO. On the Service-level objectives page, the Actions > Edit SLO entry has been renamed SLO definition. With Dynatrace Managed version 1.228, the new version of Log Monitoring is available.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Performance testing does not essentially display imperfections with an app, yet it needs to ensure that the app function as expected despite the bandwidth availability, network fluctuations, or traffic overload.

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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. Data connectivity across Netflix Studio and availability of Operational Reporting tools also incentivizes studio users to avoid forming data silos.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. ACID deployment : for every scheduler workflow definition change, we would like to have all the workflow assets bundled in an atomic, durable, isolated and consistent manner.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition. With that said, each new major version, by definition, introduces enough big changes to require a certain amount of precaution. Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. Another high priority task for us is to make more common processing patterns available to our users. This article gives an overview of the system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application.

Metrics 227

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 227

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Feature flag solutions currently use proprietary SDKs with frameworks, definitions, and data/event types that are unique to their platforms. The specification focuses primarily on feature flag evaluation in application code, leaving the definition and management of feature flags up to the feature flag management system. What’s next?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

On the Service-level objectives page, the Actions > Edit SLO entry has been renamed SLO definition. It opens the corresponding SLO on the Service-level objective definitions page, where you can view or edit the SLO definition (depending on your permissions). General Availability (Build 1.231.196). Dashboards.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The task definition parameter rateLimitFrequencyInSeconds sets the duration window, while rateLimitPerFrequency defines the number of tasks that can be scheduled in a duration window.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We recently extended the pre-shipped code-level API definitions to group logical parts of our code so they’re consistently highlighted in all code-level views. Another benefit of defining custom APIs is that the memory allocation and surviving object metrics are split by each custom API definition.

Java 221

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

The title size of a tile has been moved from the dashboard definition to the dashboard metadata definition and included in the advanced settings UI for dashboards. General Availability (Build 1.241.153). General Availability (Build 1.241.153). Dashboards. Dynatrace API. Dynatrace API. Resolved issues. Resolved issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. While the SLO management web UI and API are already available, the dashboard tile will be released within the next weeks.

Metrics 225

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This unique, end-to-end data collection, together with Smartscape ® topology mapping, ensures Grail is fueled with all available data—in context—and ready for manual or AI-driven analytics tasks. Data is available in real time without requiring indexing by our powerful Dynatrace Query Language. This scenario is a thing of the past.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. Dynatrace has you covered—Dynatrace extensions collect the necessary data and offer improved visibility wherever you need a single platform for IM and APM purposes. Start monitoring in minutes. As with other extensions based on the new Dynatrace Extensions 2.0

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

We can establish these SLOs by setting availability and performance targets, such as a target uptime percentage or a target response time. We can build the availability SLO using the Dynatrace SLO wizard. We already know how to build the availability SLO. First, we need to define the SLOs for each of the individual services.

Mobile 193

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Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. In version 1.x,

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2020

Dynatrace also alerted on intermittent outages throughout the day and especially after 8pm when the bulk of the nightly jobs were executed: On March 31st our Jenkins violated our SLAs from both availability and user experience. Step #3 – Removing the offending plugin. As the plugin wasn’t needed anymore, it was an easy decision to remove it.

Java 259

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Collector Custom Resource A custom resource (CR) represents a customization of a specific Kubernetes installation that isnt necessarily available in a default Kubernetes installation; CRs help make Kubernetes more modular. There are two versions available: v1alpha1 : apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1 spec.containers[*].name}'

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

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CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Always force HTTPS when it’s available. Connection overhead isn’t huge , but too many preconnect s that either a) aren’t critical, or b) don’t get used at all, is definitely wasteful. Note that the BBC use schemeless URLs (i.e. href=//… ). I would not recommend doing this. As easy as that—that’s your list of potential origins!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results. How does it work?

Traffic 358

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 214

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. Dealing with an unstable website is stress that users don’t need, and definitely don’t want.

Infrastructure 213

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

The Metrics API v2 is the first v2 API available in Dynatrace. Metrics API v2 is designed in a RESTful way to allow you to discover which metrics are available, retrieve metadata, and to execute sophisticated time series queries. metrics/series ( Deprecated —available until September 2020). GET /metrics. GET /metrics/{metricId}.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

The first hands-on session is easy to accomplish the 5-minute success challenge, but things heat up in our second session as we walk attendees through either Codifying the SLOs in YAML or using a Dashboard-based definition approach. This is where the dashboard-based quality gate definition comes in. Hands-on 2: Codify your SLOs.

Cloud 214

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. If your custom resource-definition targets the pod’s namespace, OneAgent will be injected before it starts. Cloud-native injection with admission controllers. If not, the pod will remain as is.

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Government Innovation Strategy Speed 170

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They explore platform engineering’s multiple definitions, its pros and cons, and how practitioners can shape this emerging DevOps concept. The job of the platform team is to define how the environments are built and where they run, and to make sure they’re always available in an easy way.”

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. Dynatrace news. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

Code 245

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. That’s what Cloud Automation does: SLIs, SLOs, Monitoring Definition, Automation Sequences, Tests, Deployment Definitions, etc.

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