The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan? Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Using Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure allows customers to leverage all the benefits of the Dynatrace platform’s underlying cloud-native, web-scale architecture while operating entirely in the Azure cloud. Enabling developers to use their most loved tools and services makes them more productive and efficient.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. Managing this change is difficult.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cloud deployments have grown rapidly in recent years, and enterprise hybrid and multicloud environments have become the new standard, resulting in new challenges such as: Keeping up with dynamic, autoscaling environments where instances, applications and microservices come and go fast. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. Our Cloud Automation Roadshow brings the latest cloud-native automation practices to our attendees. Last week we kicked it off with a three-hour virtual hands-on workshop.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Now the company expansion continues as Dynatrace opens another Software Development Lab in Vienna. By December this year, an office for up to 120 software developers will be built covering approximately 1,800 square meters in a central Vienna location. With this growth, a new global R&D headquarters was opened in Linz in late 2019.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. VA’s journey into the cloud.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

With segments, you can isolate particular OpenPipeline log sources, resource entities, cloud regions, or even certain buckets your developers use. Think of segments as a feature that allows you to create views for teams, departments, or application ownersor just for yourself. Figure 4.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The path to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM) and NoOps is a transformational journey that reaches all parts of an organization. For these reasons, and to educate you, we have developed a five-day immersive Autonomous Cloud Lab (ACL) which will walk you through some of the key concepts of what it means to not only talk ACM but also walk it.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

With cloud deployments growing rapidly during the past few years and enterprise multi-cloud environments becoming the norm, new challenges have emerged, including: Cloud dynamics make it hard to keep up with autoscaling, where services come and go based on demand. Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

For IT teams seeking agility, cost savings, and a faster on-ramp to innovation, a cloud migration strategy is critical. Cloud migration enables IT teams to enlist public cloud infrastructure so an organization can innovate without getting bogged down in managing all aspects of IT infrastructure as it scales. Dynatrace news.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This Redis management solution allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL. Redis Cloud Gets Easier with Fully Managed Hosting on Microsoft Azure Click To Tweet.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And it’s a crucial step toward achieving cloud automation on the path to NoOps. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. So we built one: The Dynatrace Cloud Automation control plane. Cloud Automation use cases.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

The last decade brought a wave of digital transformation that accelerated the move towards cloud-native tech, specifically Kubernetes. We’re here to talk about the less savory side of cloud-native transformation—you know, all the things that can go wrong. But now, you’re orchestrating containers, not virtual machines.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Industry apps explosion.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2020

The global gaming industry is expected to reach more than $300 billion by 2025 with the growth of revolutionary offerings, like cloud gaming and mobile gaming, according to a new report from GlobalData. However, it is vital for the gaming companies to not only focus on future trends but also to identify the user’s needs.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. The importance of ITOps cannot be overstated, especially as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. IP addresses within the cloud can move from one EC2 instance or Titus container to another over time.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. The goal was to promote collaboration between development and operations teams rather than keeping them siloed. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

DevOps is a widely practiced set of procedures and tools for streamlining the development, release, and updating of software. Despite DevOps’ benefits in supporting and improving specific steps in the software development lifecycle, these procedures can make managing IT operations difficult. DevOps orchestration in practice.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

As strained IT, development, and security teams head into 2022, the pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster has never been more consequential. Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. Dynatrace news.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kubernetes simplifies the operation and development of distributed applications by streamlining the deployment of containerized workloads and distributing them over a set of nodes. But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

A prominent solution is virtual machines, however, this is inadequate for customers who deploy their systems with Kubernetes. This is how Synthetic deployment should be for cloud-native environments. To simulate those users’ journeys, multiple synthetic locations deployed within various sections of internal networks are required.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Container as a service is a cloud-based service that allows companies to manage and deploy containers at scale. Container environments enable enterprises to quickly deploy and develop cloud-native applications that can run anywhere. This, in turn, drove the creation of cloud-based services that further automated this function.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

As a developer, you often want to deploy different application versions to different environments, for example to differentiate between your production and staging application instances. This enables cloud operations to gain actionable insights into the performance of the applications deployed in Azure Deployment Slots. .

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. We believe at Soldo that efficiency is the key value to be very successful in the business we run,” said Luca Domenella, head of cloud operations and DevOps at Soldo. We’re born in the cloud, we’re a cloud-native company.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. That’s why developers and SRE’s rely on telemetry data (i.e.,

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Host analysis focuses on operating systems, virtual machines, and containers to understand if there are software components with known vulnerabilities that can be patched. API analysis examines vulnerabilities exposed in APIs, the method modern applications use to transfer data between endpoints and cloud-based applications.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But advancements in modern AIOps and cloud automation are now bringing NoOps within reach. The need for developers and innovation is now even greater. Or is it just a passing cloud? NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team.

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