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 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

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. Hence, having a dedicated dashboard tile visualizing the key parameters of each SLO simplifies the process of evaluating them.

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VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability , aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. So when they don’t get one, they ask again — and again… and again… We thus have two compelling reasons for why high availability is so important: 1. What is high availability?

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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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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

This information is curated from the expert microservices material available on our online learning platform. Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. Messaging enabled.

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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

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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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

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 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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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

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

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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This document details the intriguing process of debugging this issue, all the way from the UI down to the Linux kernel. Restarting the ipykernel process, which runs the Notebook, might temporarily alleviate the problem, but the frustration persists as more notebooks are run. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. For example, a workflow to backfill hourly data for the past five years can lead to 43800 jobs (24 * 365 * 5), each of which processes data for an hour. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

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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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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

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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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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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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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 27, 2024

Set up alerts for suspicious user activity Being able to explore logs in-depth is very helpful to perform forensic analysis, however, customers really want to get alerted if suspicious activity is going on as soon as logs are processed* by Dynatrace. Note that AWS AppFabric is available in the US East (N.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The following five-step approach is one that Andreas Grabner, DevOps activist at Dynatrace, and I recommend for organizations that want to incorporate SLOs within software delivery and incident management processes. Many organizations often start with the service availability and performance SLOs. Check out the full webinar here!

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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

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

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

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

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. Cloud Automation SLIs and SLOs can be changed through your git service and process of choice.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

Microsoft Power BI and MySQL are two powerful tools that can facilitate this process. In this article, we will explore the process of how to connect MySQL to Power BI, a leading business intelligence tool. This streamlined data integration simplifies the process of data analysis and ensures consistency and accuracy in reporting.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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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. To address this, we use a static limit for the initial queries to the backing store, query with this limit, and process the results.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

We also use Micrometer to analyze ingest queue processing speed, which helps us make decisions about adding resources. Auto-enrichment is also available in cases where OneAgent is unavailable or unnecessary. Definitions of the Slack workflow are also in the Git repository.

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