The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dynatrace, available as an Azure-native service , has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, deeply rooted in a strong “build with” approach to deliver seamless user experience. Explore our interactive product tour , or contact us to discuss how Dynatrace and Microsoft Sentinel can elevate your security strategy.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. Automatic failover is a critical strategy to achieve this.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Streamlining observability with Dynatrace OneAgent on AWS Image Builder In our ongoing collaboration with AWS, we’re excited to make the Dynatrace OneAgent available as a first-class integration on AWS Image Builder via the AWS Marketplace.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A good Kubernetes SLO strategy helps teams manage and make containerized workloads more efficient. These out-of-the-box templates and their visualization within the Kubernetes app will be available early next year. Establishing SLOs for Kubernetes clusters can help organizations optimize resource utilization.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This pricing model is part of our plan to introduce new features that help customers align the right pricing strategies to their use cases. Disclaimer: This publication may include references to the planned testing, release, and/or availability of Dynatrace products and services.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Activate Davis AI to analyze charts within seconds Davis AI can help you expand your dashboards and dive deeper into your available data to extract additional information. Business: Using information on past order volumes, businesses can predict future sales trends, helping to manage inventory levels and effectively plan marketing strategies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

We can experiment with different content placements or promotional strategies to boost visibility and engagement. Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Key insights from this shiftinclude: A Data-Centric Approach : Shifting focus from model-centric strategies, which heavily rely on feature engineering, to a data-centric one. Post-Action Features : These are details available after an interaction has occurred, such as the specific show interacted with or the duration of the interaction.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

This blog will suggest five areas to consider and questions to ask when evaluating your existing vendors and their risk management strategies. Vendors take different testing and QA approaches, ranging from simple crash testing to newer strategies such as canary and blue-green. A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Thinking about going multi-cloud?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis instances for better performance optimization. Or even having limitations when trying vertical/horizontal scalability while ensuring availability at all times.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. Regional disks Regional disks are available at Azure and Google Cloud but not yet at AWS.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis® instances for better performance optimization. Or even having limitations when trying vertical/horizontal scalability while ensuring availability at all times.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Database monitoring.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️ Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 We need to learn a little bit more about the rest of our setup before we can make a final decision about our concatenation strategy.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

By implementing these strategies, organizations can minimize the impact of potential failures and ensure a smoother transition for users. Blue/green deployments This strategy involves selecting a “blue” group to run the new software while the “green” group continues to run the previous version.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Multicloud strategy: Balancing potential with complexity in modern IT ecosystems In the ever-changing digital world, cloud technologies are crucial in driving business innovation and adaptability. While cloud deployments offer benefits, they also pose management challenges—especially in multicloud strategies that use various cloud providers.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Get automated backups, high availability, and seamless scalingso you can focus on your applications, not database maintenance. Logical Replication PostgreSQL 17 introduces key upgrades to logical replication , making it easier to manage high availability and maintain data consistency. Start your free trial today!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain. Read eBook now!

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Replication Strategy. Is my database cluster still highly available? All of our high availability options are offered in DigitalOcean, including 2 Replicas + 1 Arbiter, 3 Replicas and custom replica set setups. DigitalOcean does not have the concept of availability zones (AZ), so we distribute the nodes across different regions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

How to improve digital experience monitoring Implementing a successful DEM strategy can come with challenges. It can help understand the flow of user interactions, identify areas for improvement, and drive a user experience strategy that better engages customers to meet their needs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Filter by metric dimensions and then choose Auto-adaptive baseline as your monitoring strategy: Both monitoring strategies (static and adaptive baselines) offer a convenient alert preview that allows you to review the potential number of alerts when using the given settings. Availability. Problem raised? Davis analyzed?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In the report, Forrester evaluated 11 providers, scoring them with categories that include Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence. Dynatrace received the highest scores in the Current Offering and Strategy categories of 4.23 and 4.40, respectively. Let’s dig into these categories a bit more.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability. The good news: even for latecomers to the compliance party, compliance is perfectly doable within the timeframe given the right tools and strategies. Organisations typically waste valuable time discussing and deciding the right strategy for hunting down the problem.

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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. Types of synthetic testing There are three broad types of synthetic testing: availability, web performance, and transaction.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, this baseline measurement has become an important component of our sustainability strategy. The AppEngine uses an easy, low-code approach to unlock the wealth of insights available in modern cloud ecosystems, including revealing where organizations consume their energy. ”As Download report Already a Dynatrace customer?

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Commercial databases are developed and maintained by a commercial business that are available for use through a licensing subscription fee, and may not be modified. Commercial Databases. of deployments in a hybrid cloud.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Digital modernization is a necessary piece of the successful strategy of VA, and according to Dave Catanoso, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office (ECSO) at VA, the cloud is one of the catalysts to help accomplish that objective. It comes down to getting the best value out of your systems as well as your people,” Hicks says.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2022

By using Cloud Adoption Framework best practices, organizations are better able to align their business and technical strategies to ensure success. One of the key monitoring strategies in the Cloud Adoption Framework is observability. Microsoft provides guidance to accelerate cloud adoption with The Cloud Adoption Framework.

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