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

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Watch webinar now!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 29, 2024

Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. If successful, the system closes the loop and notifies teams.

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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

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. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. In this article, I will share some of the best practices to help you understand and survive the current situation — as well as future proof your applications and infrastructure for similar situations that might occur in the months and years to come.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into the world of service meshes and explore best practices for their effective management within a microservices environment.

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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. Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Technical : Specifies technical requirements for ICT systems within an organization. Automatically and continuously checking systems to see if they meet the latest security standards not only helps organizations pass annual compliance audits but also reduces the risks of cyber security incidents.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

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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. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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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 31, 2025

In our Dynatrace Dashboard tutorial, we want to add a chart that shows the bytes in and out per host over time to enhance visibility into network traffic. For more information on optimizing your prompts and best practices, check out the topic Tips for writing better prompts.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. The Dynatrace ACE services team has experience helping customers with defining and implementing SLOs. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Allowing architectures to be nimble and evolve over time, allowing organizations to take advantage of innovations as a standard practice. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The final status update was at 6:54PM PDT with a very detailed description of the temperature rise that caused the shutdown initially, followed by the fire suppression system dispersing some chemicals which prolonged the full recovery process.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Siloed teams and multiple tools make it difficult to align on a single version of the truth for overall system health.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Dynatrace news. A world of misunderstandings.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. Error budget burn rate = Error Rate / (1 – Target) Best practices in SLO configuration To detect if an entity is a good candidate for strong SLO, test your SLO.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability. If one of these situations becomes a bottleneck in your system, you start a cluster.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. SAST tools identify problematic coding patterns that go against best practices. million Americans, 15.2

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing. Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. SREs visualize the state of the system they’re responsible for with powerful Dynatrace dashboards.

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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. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. A big factor in good Digital Performance is the back-end system that powers your digitally offered use-cases. Impressive results I have to say!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. can we actually make this work in practice?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We’ll also cover how to instrument the services using OpenTelemetry, and some best practices for how to define spans and traces manually. By *instrumenting* a system (for example, an application), you enhance its capabilities to be able to send the desired telemetry data. heapUsed); }); What to trace?

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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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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key features of RabbitMQ, such as message acknowledgments, complex routing, and asynchronous processing, contribute to system reliability and performance. They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. This non-blocking nature improves the system’s responsiveness and efficiency.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? mongorestore --host=mongodb1.example.net

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Watch Now : Using Open Source Software to Secure Your MongoDB Database MongoDB Security Features and Best Practices Authentication in MongoDB Most breaches involving MongoDB occur because of a deadly combination of authentication disabled and MongoDB opened to the internet. Thankfully, LDAP can fill many of these gaps.

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