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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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. Encryption.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The log ingestion wizard offers support for all log ingestion methods available in Dynatrace Hub Get started with Logs: The OneAgent advantage For most scenarios, Dynatrace OneAgent is your best friend for getting started with Dynatrace log ingestion. Different log ingestion methods are available to address various needs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Applications must work as intended and make their way through development pipelines as quickly as possible. FaaS enables enterprises to deliver on the evolving expectations of fast and furious app development. Increased availability. But what is FaaS?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Kickstart your creation journey using ready-made dashboards and notebooks Creating dashboards and notebooks from scratch can take time, particularly when figuring out available data and how to best use it. This feature lets you explore any available metric and add it to Notebooks or Dashboards.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Its design prioritizes high availability and efficient data transfer with minimal overhead, making it a practical choice for handling real-time data pipelines and distributed event processing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

are technologically very different, Python and JMX extensions designed for Extension Framework 1.0 address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: What’s available now and what’s coming later We’ve already started to migrate Dynatrace-developed Extensions 1.0

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Enabling keyboard shortcuts and possessing visual appeal and transparency to minimize strain on wrists and eyesight to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and visual impairment from developing in users. To conclude, GUIs are a vital addition to ease the lives of database users and developers. Easy to use and highly customizable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Standardization To standardize communication between our observability service and the personalization stacks observability endpoints, weve developed a stable proto request/response format. This endpoint efficiently reads from all available Hollow Feeds to obtain the current status, thanks to Hollows in-memory capabilities.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether you’re a seasoned IT expert or a marketing professional looking to improve business performance, understanding the data available to you is essential. Good dashboards cover a broad range of metrics, and Dynatrace already provides an expertly developed, ready-made infrastructure dashboard that covers most use cases.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

We recently announced Dynatrace Live Debugger , which gives developers unprecedented access to real-time data and runtime behavior insights. This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

To facilitate easier access to incrementality results, we have developed an interactive tool powered by this framework. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model. We only observe signups, not why members signedup.

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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.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services. Classic queues can be used in clusters, emphasizing their behavior during node failures, particularly regarding durability and availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

This limitation has inspired us to develop a foundation model for recommendation. These insights have shaped the design of our foundation model, enabling a transition from maintaining numerous small, specialized models to building a scalable, efficient system. We see promising results from downstream integrations.

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This is the year we put erroneous behavior [in] and eliminated uninitialized locals in the standard, this is the year that we design-approved reflection for the standard both for C++26 and hopefully they’ll both get in.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. Greenplum Advantages.

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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. How does high availability work?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

DevOps seeks to accomplish smooth and efficient software creation, delivery, monitoring, and improvement by prioritizing agility and adaptability over rigid, stage-by-stage development. How do organizations implement this approach to software development, and what capabilities do they need to make this shift a success?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. It seeks to make Java EE programming easier and increase developers' productivity in the workplace.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Hacker News).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We’ve developed an EdgeConnect Management app to assist you in configuring host and domain name patterns while observing the availability status of your existing EdgeConnect instances. Efficiency and control EdgeConnect boasts a range of features designed for efficiency and control.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. Organizations often need to do some team building to synthesize the objectives of developers and operations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. The first benefit is simplicity. But which are the best fit for your business, and where do they make the most sense in your serverless application stack?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Also called continuous monitoring or synthetic monitoring , synthetic testing mimics actual users’ behaviors to help companies identify and remediate potential availability and performance issues. Synthetic testing vs. real user monitoring Both synthetic testing and real user monitoring (RUM) play a role in application development.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Build an umbrella for Development and Operations In modern software engineering, the discipline of platform engineering delivers DevSecOps practices to developers to bridge the gaps between development, security, and operations and enhance the developer experience.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With growing multicloud complexity and the need for organization-wide scalability, self-service and automation capabilities have become increasingly essential for developer productivity. Many consider it an effective solution for improving efficiency and overall satisfaction for developers across a variety of organizations and industries.

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The goal of Levels of Testing is to make software testing more structured and efficient, as well as to make it easier to identify all available test cases and test scenarios at a given level. There are various steps in the SDLC paradigm, such as requirement gathering, analysis, coding, design, execution, testing, and deployment.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The development of internal platform teams has taken off in the last three years, primarily in response to the challenges inherent in scaling modern, containerized IT infrastructures. The old saying in the software development community, “You build it, you run it,” no longer works as a scalable approach in the modern cloud-native world.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. As you may recall from a previous blog post , Netflix has standardized on Spring Boot for backend development.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%. Avoid downtime.

Metrics 246

Metrics DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kubernetes simplifies the operation and development of distributed applications by streamlining the deployment of containerized workloads and distributing them over a set of nodes. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. Microsoft designed the kernel and other aspects of the OS with an emphasis on security due to its focused role in executing container workloads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. At the same time, we kept the design open enough to allow future extensibility.

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

Python is a powerful and flexible programming language used by millions of developers around the world to build their applications. It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our team spent a lot of time addressing dissenting points and making adjustments to the architecture based on feedback from developers. Through our prototype development and proactive partnership with some key critical voices, we were able to instill confidence and close crucial gaps.

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