The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. Although it might be marginally quicker to generate schema from the code, putting the time into designing your schema in a human readable, collaborative way is well worth the effort towards a better API.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace LLC. . Our employees listen carefully to our customers and innovate continuously. This combination sets us apart. .

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Similarly, integrations for Azure and VMware are available to help you monitor your infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

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Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON) is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON documents. To read the content of a BSON document, you have to convert it to a human-readable format like JSON. Through this blog post, you will learn how to convert a BSON document to JSON.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

While each database has been designed for different goals and use cases, YCSB test provides somewhat a common ground for the benchmark, therefore the numbers shown in this document can be used by developers or users to help select the db suitable for their requirement. Conclusion.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Dynatrace’s ability to ingest metrics from all 95 AWS services will be available within the next 60 days. Those in the left column are readily available now, with those in the right available soon. Available Now. You can refer to Dynatrace documentation for detailed information and requirements. Coming Soon.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above. The devil is in the many carefully designed details of Metaflow: for instance, note how in the above example data and models are stored as normal Python instance variables.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

Sample GraphQL Schema Once entities like the above are available in the graph, it’s very common for folks to want to query for a particular entity based on attributes of related entities, e.g. give me all movies that are currently in photography with Ryan Reynolds as an actor.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are no thresholds to manage for cost events; cost monitors are designed to ensure that all meaningful increases are caught and notified without generating false alerts. If you’re already using the new Dynatrace Platform Subscription model (available as of April 26, 2023), cost monitors are already running on your account!

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For more information on this and other examples please visit the Dataflow documentation page." It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows. Instead of reading documentation, you can initialize a “real” project, change it as needed, and iterate from there.

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

When deploying in production, it’s highly recommended to setup in a MongoDB replica set configuration so your data is geographically distributed for high availability. Like the driver documentation says, this is not recommended as it makes the connection susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Testing Failover Behavior.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace. Check out the documentation for the Privacy Rights app. What’s next We’re working on making privacy rights handling even easier by making log deletion in Grail available in the Privacy Rights app.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve. Access policies for Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse are still available as service-related policies; they allow you to control access to the monitoring data on a per-data-source level, for example, logs and metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation. General Availability (Build 1.239.178). Log Monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. Fact #4: Multi-node, multi-availability zone deployment architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

This post will discuss how Studio Search supports querying the data available in these indices. One other challenge for the users when writing the search queries is to understand the fields that are available in the index and the associated types.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

The whole experience is designed to fit into your individual data governance and compliance framework. With this three-layer design, you enjoy maximum flexibility in managing sensitive data points end-to-end. Read more about these options in Log Monitoring documentation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Such attributes can be, for example, the creator of a document, the name of a metric, or a custom region field that allows you to segment the data for access. This was one of the most demanded features, and with the introduction of security policies, this control mechanism is finally available. Policy format. Permissions.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. For example, find all books that are available in braille. Nested objects. GIN Indexes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Feature Overview Reproducibility Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design. This combination of code, data and execution results into a single document makes notebooks powerful, but also difficult to reproduce. Reproducible by Design Two of Polynote’s guiding principles are reproducibility and visibility.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Metric calculations help you design custom dashboards that meet the requirements of specific teams. Applying an API-first approach, Dynatrace recently made these transformations and expressions available through the Metrics API v2 , extending your reach into distant corners of your IT ecosystem. Examples of metric calculations.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimize cost and availability while staying compliant Observability data like logs and metrics provide automated answers, root cause detection, and security issues. This means compromising between keeping data available as long as possible for analysis while juggling the costs and overhead of storage, archiving, and retrieval.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Listen, learn, improve, and repeat The latest update to the Citrix monitoring extension is now available. This update improves the ability to observe Citrix users and delivery agents within a Citrix environment using the Citrix SDK, which is designed specifically for Citrix admins. Now, it’s available to all customers.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. remember, it’s not a waterfall project Tools and Techniques There are plentiful tools and techniques available to you in your modernisation initiative. Architecture modernisation caveats?—?remember, You can do either first.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

NoSQL is popularly used for its flexible ability to create a unique structure, and can be document, graph, column, or even KeyValue organized as a data structure. While MongoDB is often considered an alternative to MySQL, the two databases do work well together when properly designed. Memory then came in at number three with 8.2%

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

” Meaning, you don’t need to worry about OneAgent updates because they’re performed automatically, safely, and promptly as soon as new versions are available (no manual effort required). One Dynatrace design principle that we take very seriously, is “zero config and smart defaults.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to make informed decisions, business owners, UX designers, and developers require data—specifically, they rely on insights from their data on a large scale, ideally in a single location. For details regarding which SwiftUI controls and views are supported, see Instrument SwiftUI controls documentation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

Minimize overall documentation. Over-documentation reintroduces this issue and can lead to environments and configuration data being out of sync. Because configuration files form a single source of truth, they require minimal documentation. One of IAC’s biggest benefits is reduced complexity through automation.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Code-level vulnerability detection provides deep insight into each detected vulnerability: Location of the vulnerability in your code Affected processes Context and details based on the vulnerability type Potential impact assessment based on your environment topology Code-level vulnerability detection is currently available for Java processes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

If you’ve already designated specific users or user groups as management zone administrators, no further action is needed. This update will change some existing workflows for notification set up, so please refer to Dynatrace Documentation for details on configuring notifications from third-party tools. How to get started.

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