The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

As file sizes grow and workflows become more complex, these issues are magnified, leading to inefficiencies that slow down post-production and reduce the available time spent on creativework. Depending on the market, or production budget, cutting-edge technology might not be available or affordable. So what isit?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent. cluster=sandbox, workflow.id=demo.branch_demox.EXP_01.training

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability. Availability The degree to which a product or service is available for use when required. Availability, reliability, and state.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? backfill.sch.yaml ??? daily.sch.yaml ???

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system. 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

MARCH 17, 2021

Complex IT systems make it possible to buy your favorite pair of jeans online, pay your bills, or help you navigate. These systems produce an unimaginably huge amount of data. All the data bound to hosts is analyzed by the Davis AI causation engine and made available on custom dashboards and events pages. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. 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. As of now, we still have several specialized internal systems serving their own use cases.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. Manually constructed continuous delivery system.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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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 AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. How does it work?

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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. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects. 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. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. With the high growth of workflows in the past few years?—?increasing

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context.

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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.”. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems.

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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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This was one of the most demanded features, and with the introduction of security policies, this control mechanism is finally available. Let’s take a look at how the new permission system is leveraged within Settings 2.0 As of today, many settings are already available to be referenced in security policies. Policy format.

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. Ready to learn more?

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Building effective and reliable systems is only possible with automation, which, in the past, proved difficult due to the following issues: Complexity of systems: The complexity of modern systems makes it difficult to gather all the necessary information to automate decision-making.

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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. rpl_semi_sync_master_timeout.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Integration with Red Hat Event-Driven-Ansible will also leverage Red Hat’s flexible rulebook system to map event data, such as problem categories or vulnerability identification, to the correct job template. Context-rich tickets can be created in systems like Jira or ServiceNow for traceability and compliance. Got any more questions?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. With observability, you can get a better understanding of how your systems behave and what they do, especially in case of errors. Why should I adopt observability?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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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 is required.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews. 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.

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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. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, All these definitions are distinct and important. Containment: Implements actions to safeguard affected systems, resolves incidents quickly and escalates an event to other teams when necessary. This does not include lag time in the alert system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. The CSI pod offers a prepared file system, mounted automatically, and includes unzipped agent binaries to every application pod. kubectl label namespaces [your-namespace] monitoring=Dynatrace Note: GKE Autopilot support is available as of Dynatrace Operator 0.12

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