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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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2025

OpenTelemetry provides us with a standard for generating, collecting, and emitting telemetry, and we have existing tooling that leverages OTel data to help us understand work processes and workflows. Observability is definitely here to stay! KubeCon Day 1 Keynotes!

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously not all tools are made with the same use case in mind, so we are planning to add more code samples for other (than classical batch ETL) data processing purposes, e.g. Machine Learning model building and scoring. Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ???

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming data, accessing and working with data, and triggering automations.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

KeyCDN has significantly simplified the way images are transformed and delivered with our Image Processing service. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. Our Image Processing service makes it easy to do that. The available operations are listed in our documentation.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. 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).

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. Alongside this data ingest, Grail enables highly efficient processing pipelines to enrich ingested data, extract metrics, or add a privacy filter. Retain data.

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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. Scale and automate SRE into your delivery processes with Dynatrace. Each action button in the SLO wizard selects one of these important templates.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. Maybe, but we’re definitely not there yet. I’ve just always done it that way.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. All the data bound to hosts is analyzed by the Davis AI causation engine and made available on custom dashboards and events pages.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. 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. If not, the pod will remain as is.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition.

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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.

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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. The handler is responsible for ~3.5

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Intertwined processes slow down automation at scale. Developing applications based on modern architectures comes with a challenge for release automation: integrating delivery of many services with similar processes but often with different technologies and tools along the delivery pipelines. To address the problem of processes (i.e.,

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. With DQL, the workflow trigger to initiate a required automation and remediation process can be defined.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Collector is a versatile component thats able to ingest telemetry from a variety of sources, transform the received telemetry in a number of ways based on its configuration, and then export that processed data to any backend that accepts the OpenTelemetry data format (also referred to as OTLP , which stands for OpenTelemetry Protocol).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Business intelligence tools have earned a reputation for being inflexible, lacking the context and real-time insights needed to understand and improve business processes and customer experience. But the company’s point-of-sale system limits daily reports to sales volume, with additional detail available only in monthly reports.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Modern applications—enterprise and consumer—increasingly depend on third-party services to create a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user. API monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data about the performance of an API in order to identify problems that impact users. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Change failure rate.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. For example, if the SLA for a website is 99.95% uptime, its corresponding SLO could be 99.95% availability of the login services.

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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 traditional or hybrid IT environments, messaging systems are used to decouple heavyweight processing, buffer work, or smooth over spiky workloads. Dynatrace news. This is great!

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 14, 2024

WebKit have recently announced their intent to implement the blocking=render attribute for and elements, bringing them in line with support already available in Blink and generally positive sentiment in Firefox. The resource is fetched and processed asynchronously while the browser is free to work on whatever other tasks there may be.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

If you still use the legacy version of Log Monitoring ( Log Monitoring v1 ), the Log Monitoring v1 documentation is still available, but we strongly encourage you to switch to the latest Dynatrace Log Monitoring version and gain direct access to the log content of all your mission-critical processes. See SQL data source. Dashboards.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Secondly, knowing who is responsible is essential but not sufficient, especially if you want to automate your triage process. Keeping ownership teams and their properties up to date is essential, as is having the right contact information available when needed. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2019

The following is the screenshot of the Dynatrace Problem Ticket: Dynatrace detected the crash of notes.exe and additionally found the root cause to be high garbage collection of that java process. Dynatrace provides resource monitoring for the host including each individual process. Step 3: Supporting Evidence to IT Admins.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The standard dictionary subscript notation is also available. You can see the actual command and args that were sub-processed in the Metaboost Execution section below. For convenience, they support the dot-syntax (when possible) for accessing keys, making it easy to access values in a nested configuration. cluster=sandbox, workflow.id=demo.branch_demox.EXP_01.training

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

We also couldn’t compromise on performance and availability.” But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. Further, Tractor Supply’s transition to Kubernetes introduced many new processes—particularly regarding security.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. The validation process is automated based on events that occur, while the objectives’ configuration, which is validated by the Site Reliability Guardian , is stored in a separate file.

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