The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. The application consists of several microservices that are available as pod-backed services. Information about each of these topics will be available in upcoming announcements.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Among the spectrum of methodologies available for this task, batch processing is often considered an old guard, especially with the advent of real-time and event-based processing technologies. However, it would be a mistake to dismiss batch processing as an antiquated approach.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The end goal, of course, is to optimize the availability of organizations’ software. Dynatrace is widely recognized for its AI capabilities’ ability to predict and prevent issues, and automatically identify root causes, maximizing availability.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes running the Linux operating system enable you to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Dynatrace observability is available for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power. Learn more about the new Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

For example: Infrastructure services might provide data about request timings that can give you a precise overview of system health, but the data is logged in a custom format. Advanced processing on your observability platform unlocks the full value of log data.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Query Optimization.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Log analytics, on the other hand, is the process of using the gathered logs to extract business or operational insight.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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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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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. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Processing took several hours to complete.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Introducing sufficient jitter to the flush process can further reduce contention.

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DZone

JANUARY 15, 2024

It provides features for load balancing, scaling, and ensuring high availability of your containerized applications. In this comprehensive tutorial, we will walk you through the process of setting up a Docker Swarm cluster and deploying Docker containers within it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 6, 2021

The entire process of Cloud Testing is operated online with the help of the required infrastructure. This primarily helps the QA teams to deal with the challenges like limited availability of devices, browsers, and operating systems.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2024

Our company uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to streamline the comparison and purchasing process for car insurance and car loans. To avoid extensive maintenance, we adopted JuiceFS, a distributed file system with high performance. As our data grew, we had problems with AWS Redshift which was slow and expensive.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Certification by an independent assessor includes an audit of the company’s information security measures, including its infrastructure, processes, and data protection practices. Dynatrace recently passed this rigorous audit process and successfully demonstrated its ability to handle data securely.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Technology and operations teams work to ensure that applications and digital systems work seamlessly and securely. They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Understanding future capacity requirements is crucial for maintaining system stability. What is predictive AI?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services. How does Dynatrace help?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Self-service update packages management is now available. You can safe your disk space and have more control over what’s available to your cluster . Operating systems support. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. Now only valid versions are available to choose. x86 (64bit-only).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. availability, performance, and security), to ensure applications can effectively deliver their data payload across a globally dispersed cloud-based ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

A key learning from the outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike “Rapid Response” update is how critical it is to understand your vendors’ quality control and release processes. What is your testing process? A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage. A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Other data sources, including APIs and log files — are used to expand access, often to external or proprietary systems. Dynatrace OpenPipeline is a new stream processing technology that ingests and contextualizes data from any source.

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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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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Having a poor employee retention rate is expensive, but trying to find the right candidate is a time-consuming process. What’s quite often the case is that businesses already have these skills available to them in their workforce, and only require a system that can transfer employees to positions that correspond with their talents.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Boost your operational resilience: Combining availability and security is now essential. The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities. Its time to adopt a unified observability and security approach.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Each entry represents a process group instance. With the integration of issue tracking systems and configurable dynamic queries, Dynatrace shows you issue statistics and links to issues, alongside the related releases. Release information from issue tracking systems. What is the state of the change log for the new version?

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. They knew a different team supported each step in the process. What are SLOs? A world of misunderstandings.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective.

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