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. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Host-performance measures.

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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. As you went through these steps, you likely noticed some of the chart options available. Welcome, data enthusiasts! That’s where Dynatrace dashboards come in.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. Recovery time of the latency p90.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Our first version is available to customers in the Intel Tiber AI Cloud as a preview for the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (previously called Ponte Vecchio). Earlier this year I posted about the final missing piece: Helping distros enable frame pointers so that profiling works across standard system libraries. Process tools.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

So, those of you limited to Windows-only systems can now also enjoy all the goodness of having HTTP monitors deliver API testing right to your door! Support for Windows-based ActiveGates is now available with ActiveGate version 1.165. Internal application availability monitoring. Why use synthetic HTTP monitors?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

These regulations place demands on providers to meet key requirements to ensure the operational resilience and availability of critical financial services. With an automatic observability platform, teams can receive alerts when the system has burned through the impact tolerance. For financial services firms in the U.K.,

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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. Maintaining disparate systems posed a challenge.

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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. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you keep an eye on the support of distributions and versions of operating systems within your environment? With this information, you can find answers to questions such as: Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? What about ActiveGates?

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

This step lets you fine-tune your query to identify all matching data points, ensuring a thorough and accurate retrieval process. Once the data in Grail that matches the run query is returned, a second authorized user reviews the results in terms of volume (the number of log records, volume, data residency, and the number of systems).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. The Akamas approach. lower than 2%.).

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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. Based on our findings, SQL still holds 60% with rising demand for systems such as PostgreSQL: SQL Database Use: 60.48%. SQL vs. NoSQL. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. Most Popular Databases.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. You can start monitoring the availability and performance of your applications now. Try it out for yourself. What’s next.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Observability is a topic at the top of mind for all architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and more – each wanting to use observability to proactively detect issues and guarantee the best experience and availability to users. Usual exceptions raised by our system that is now considered to be normal by Davis. Slow degradations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. We set up a client-side AB experiment that tested Falcor versus GraphQL and reported coarse-grained quality of experience metrics ( QoE ).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

We’re happy to announce that the new Environment API is now available in the Cluster API in an Early Adopter release. The endpoint is designed in a RESTful way, so the typical resource layout with all CRUD functionality is available. With POST , the system automatically creates an environment ID for you.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews. The Metrics API v2 is the first v2 API available in Dynatrace. Metrics API v2 is designed in a RESTful way to allow you to discover which metrics are available, retrieve metadata, and to execute sophisticated time series queries.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. By Andrei U.,

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. This is what I wanted to optimize and avoid and many traditional (or homegrown) systems aren’t doing this. For example, invoking a webhook that creates a ticket in an ITSM system.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. As the system evolves to solve more and more use cases, we have expanded its scope to handle not only the CDC use cases but also more general data movement and processing use cases such that: Events can be sourced from more generic applications (not only databases).

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Stay tuned!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. Streaming Platforms Commercial streaming platforms shown in Figure 1 mainly rely on Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It’s low because certain machines and operating systems do not support higher values.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In addition, Davis provides automatic alerting of service-to-service communication problems using queues and other event systems. Within the next 90 days, all enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available to all Dynatrace customers. Stay tuned for updates. 2 Automatic detected queues anomaly by AI engine Davis.

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