The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Scaling with Flexible Identity Federation Identity federation plays a critical role in modern IT infrastructure, serving as a foundational component that enables seamless, secure access to various systems and applications across different domains and platforms. See Dynatrace Documentation for full details.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we will explain the Redis transactional property of scripts, what this error is about, and why we must be extra careful about it on Sentinel-managed systems that can failover. The complete information on methods to kill the script execution and related behavior are available in the documentation. Expert Tip.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. 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. SQL vs. NoSQL.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

Our explainable AI engine , Davis ™ , which is built into the core of the Dynatrace platform, proactively delivers precise answers to system degradations and performance anomalies , and automatically prioritizes these based on business impact. . The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace LLC. .

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2024

On one hand, the complexity of systems demands precise control; on the other, staying competitive requires frequent updates and rapid service enhancements. Synthetic monitoring enhances observability by enabling proactive testing and monitoring systems to identify potential issues before they quickly impact users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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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. Remediation details are linked to the problem in Dynatrace and documented in ServiceNow.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load. Reason : High memory consumption of XPath queries when parsing application documents.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

As organizations aim for faster delivery of value to their customers, the frequency of releases inevitably increases, which introduces risks and uncertainty into production systems—unless automated tests and quality gates can be leveraged to provide confidence. It will be made available for Dynatrace Managed deployments in a future release.

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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. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Atlas Performance Overview and Monitor Your Cluster documentation. Can’t say that it changed much since then industry-wise – but great free MongoDB courses are available to everybody). How MongoDB uses MongoDB at Scale.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Source code management systems are only accessible from within the Dynatrace corporate network. The full list of secure development controls, along with many more details, are documented at Dynatrace secure development controls. All these audit reports are available to be shared with Dynatrace customers under NDA.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By using OpenLLMetry and Dynatrace, anyone can get complete visibility into their system, including gen-AI parts with 5 minutes of work.” Resource consumption: Observing computational resource availability and saturation, whether deployed in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes or CPU-enabled servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. It allows users to choose between different counting modes, such as Best-Effort or Eventually Consistent , while considering the documented trade-offs of each option. Let’s take a closer look at the structure and functionality of the API.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Amazon SQS: The Amazon Simple Queue Service enables users to decouple and scale microservices, serverless applications, and distributed systems, reducing both IT overhead and total complexity.

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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. For more information on this and other examples please visit the Dataflow documentation page." " ) COMMENT "Example dataset brought to you by Dataflow.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

With the availability of Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, the IBM Z platform brings a familiar host operating system and sustainability that could yield up to 75% energy reduction compared to x86 servers. Deploying your critical applications on additional host operating systems increases the dependencies for observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. Permission whack-a-mole At Netflix, we’re firm believers in empowering our employees and providing low-friction systems that allow users to get their jobs done in a safe way. Getting Started ConsoleMe is available on GitHub (Give us a ?!).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This allows them to react accordingly and return the system to a secure state. Keeping threats documented is a challenge: Engineers typically open numerous tabs to maintain context, which is tedious and can create error. Clair determined what log data was available to her. Using Dynatrace Query Language in Grail , St.

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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. AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. Coming Soon.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

One change to send syslog to Dynatrace You can now use the syslog ingestion endpoint on Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate for performant network and system monitoring. What’s next See these related resources for complete details about Dynatrace syslog support: Syslog ingestion is available with Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate version 1.295.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

However, business processes can be inefficient, broken, or violate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) even when the underlying system’s health is good; a process is greater than the sum of its parts. Locked away in disparate systems, difficult to access, and with different formats, business data can be days or weeks old.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Comprehensive documentation is available on the website but let’s walk through an example to show you how easy it is to use this framework. Just start the Spring Boot application, and the /graphql endpoint will be available, along with the GraphiQL query editor on /graphiql that comes out of the box.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You can read more about workflow triggers in Workflow schedule trigger documentation. Take a look at the Ingest custom security events via API documentation to learn more about sending security events to OpenPipeline. Consider your use case and work processes to determine the best way to approach security events available in Grail.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New: identify hotspots with the honeycomb visualization Honeycombs are great for visualizing health in complex and distributed systems, enabling you to visualize countless entities effectively and at scale. To achieve the best visual outcome, we recommend experimenting with the available customization options.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. Start your journey with Keptn by downloading the first Release Candidate for v2 available now on GitHub. Vulnerabilities or hardware failures can disrupt deployments and compromise application security.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented. While some data comes from modern systems with APIs, other data stems from older systems that generate log files, and some data originates from external vendors. On top of that, the data sources are inconsistent.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems. The Dynatrace registry v2 is available starting with version 1.8.0 You can find all the details and sample code in our documentation. Auto-configuration is available for all OneAgent-monitored hosts. To learn more, see our documentation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Dynatrace OTel Collector was released in Preview in January and is available generally from March 2024.

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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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