The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. According to the Dynatrace “2022 Global CIO Report,” 79% of large organizations use multicloud infrastructure with no on-premises computing, while 20% use a hybrid cloud to develop and deploy applications and services.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards. This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams. Resource constraints.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Employee training in cybersecurity best practices and maintaining up-to-date software and systems are also crucial.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. Common findings.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

SREs typically start their days with meetings to ensure that various stakeholders—such as clients, IT team leaders, Kubernetes platform operations team leaders, and business leaders—that their projects are developing smoothly. How to prevent this with K8s best practices.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

With Configuration as Code, developers can manage their observability and security tasks with config files that can be developed alongside source code conveniently and at scale. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

Consequently, by understanding the intricacies involved, this enables us to swiftly confirm or refute the functional/business case of the business teams involved, including project managers, top management, developers, and tech leads. Path 2 (easier): I’m familiar with my application and the development team.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing vs. real user monitoring Both synthetic testing and real user monitoring (RUM) play a role in application development. Another difference is where they happen in the development life cycle. This is because each of these traffic vectors comes with unique challenges.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. To achieve this, many organizations are adopting DevOps practices to provide developers with a delivery platform to release their applications and services autonomously and independently.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. and GoLang to reduce the necessary boilerplate code to a minimum.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Good web application security starts when the application is being developed. Application security tests can be used to tell developers when they have introduced vulnerabilities into the application they’re building. Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality. Another customer is from a multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. A world of misunderstandings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Error Handling Errors are part of software development. But with this framework, it has to be designed more carefully as bulk data reprocessing will be done in parallel with the production traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

For Vitality, DEM starts at the development level. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. In practice, error data tells companies where to prioritize their efforts. DEM in action.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

This significantly accelerates release cycles, reduces time to market, prevents unexpected disruptions, and lowers costs by catching issues early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system. Developers can use logs, for example, to identify areas of code that are executed more frequently than needed or run for longer durations than expected.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. Real-time network performance analysis capabilities, including SSL decryption, enabled precise reconstruction of end user application states through the analysis of network traffic.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack. These teams may also have a separate mobile crash tool.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Five SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps Once you get started with these service-level objective examples, you can branch out to develop more targeted SLOs suited for your business. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of our customers also run their.NET, ASP.NET,NET Core, SQL Server, CRM, SharePoint … applications on AWS and have reached out to us in the past to ask about best practices around optimizing these workloads in order to run more efficiently and more cost effective. Are they receiving traffic? #3:

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. The technical aspect has evolved over time, and we can see that in the tooling and technology, as well as in the number of best practices.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of which are necessary to reap the benefits of experimentation for product development. There are never any shortcuts when developing and growing culture, and fostering a culture of experimentation is no exception. and then the virtuous cycle starts again.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. Operationalize data findings in one unified platform, connecting data from development and runtime environments.

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Abstracta

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Learn essential tools and best practices for web stress testing to enhance performance and reliability. The post Web Stress Test Guide: Prepare for High Traffic appeared first on Blog about Software Development, Testing, and AI | Abstracta. Read the guide to optimize your website today!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. The second example was around web-server threads, which turned out that the team ran with default settings for Apache (200 worker threads) which was too low for the traffic the government agencies are receiving during business hours.

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