The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DevOps and security teams managing today’s multicloud architectures and cloud-native applications are facing an avalanche of data. Moreover, teams are constantly dealing with continuously evolving cyberthreats to data both on premises and in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users. Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The challenge along the path Well-understood within IT are the coarse reduction levers used to reduce emissions; shifting workloads to the cloud and choosing green energy sources are two prime examples. This is partly due to the complexity of instrumenting and analyzing emissions across diverse cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. Power outages and network issues are common examples of challenges that can put your service — and your business — at risk.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The complexity of modern cloud-native environments is ever-increasing. Visualizing data in context while supporting and automating decisions with causal, predictive, and generative AI—all while providing a seamless experience—is where the future of cloud observability lies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. Network services visibility (DNS, NTP, ActiveDirectory).

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

By Cheng Xie , Bryan Shultz , and Christine Xu In a previous blog post , we described how Netflix uses eBPF to capture TCP flow logs at scale for enhanced network insights. Netflixs cloud microservices operate across multiple AWS regions. A BriefRecap FlowExporter is a sidecar that runs alongside all Netflix workloads. With 30 c7i.2xlarge

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

As of this writing, we support the most popular regions in GCP and AWS; some regions are not exposed in the cloud console but are available via support ticket. PolyScale operates a global network of PoPs (Points of Presence). The network of PoPs spans multiple cloud providers , thereby bridging the gap between cloud providers.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Why browser and HTTP monitors might not be sufficient In modern IT environments, which are complex and dynamically changing, you often need deeper insights into the Transport or Network layers. Is it a bug in the codebase, a malfunctioning backend service, an overloaded hosting infrastructure, or perhaps a misconfigured network?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In the changing world of data centers and cloud computing, the desire for efficient, flexible, and scalable networking solutions has resulted in the broad use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Traditional networking models have a tightly integrated control plane and data plane within network devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is becoming more of a critical issue as cloud-based applications gain popularity. The cloud allows a modular approach to building applications, enabling development and operations teams to create and deploy feature-rich apps very quickly. What is cloud application security?

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DZone

MARCH 18, 2024

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? In IBM Cloud, we have proprietary hardware like the FortiGate firewall that resides inside IBM Cloud data centers today. VNFs are virtualized network services that are packaged as virtual machines (VMs) on commodity hardware.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As cloud environments become increasingly complex, legacy solutions can’t keep up with modern demands. As a result, companies run into the cloud complexity wall – also known as the cloud observability wall – as they struggle to manage modern applications and gain multicloud observability with outdated tools.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines and build processes often expose Kubernetes to attack vectors via internet-sourced container images. Compliance : Adhering to stringent security standards helps meet regulatory and compliance requirements for cloud-native environments.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

Exposed secrets can be harvested by attackers, giving them access to databases, cloud resources, and more. When communications aren’t properly encrypted, attackers who gain network access can intercept traffic between components. Network layers Network layers are the fabric connecting all components of your Kubernetes cluster.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Today’s applications are cloud-native, microservices-based, and extend across both the cloud and on-premises servers. In complex, distributed cloud-native environments, observability is powerful, as it shows teams exactly when problems occur and how to proactively solve them. There are no more unknown unknowns.

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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

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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cloud observability can bring business value, said Rick McConnell, CEO at Dynatrace. Organizations have clearly experienced growth, agility, and innovation as they move to cloud computing architecture. But without effective cloud observability, they continue to experience challenges in their cloud environments.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

Lateral movement across the cluster With host access established, the attacker discovers that the cluster has no network policies defined. Missing network policies + inadequate namespace isolation Attack technique. In other cases, this could result in high bills from cloud providers where the cluster is deployed.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. Why cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and open source require a radically different approach to application security.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Indeed, organizations view IT modernization and cloud computing as intertwined with their business strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. As a result, reliance on cloud computing for infrastructure and application development has increased during the pandemic era. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

The industry has always innovated, and over the last decade, it started moving towards cloud-based workflows. However, unlocking cloud innovation and all its benefits on a global scale has proven to be difficult. The need for a centralized, cloud-based solution that transcends these barriers is more pressing than ever.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The methodology and algorithms were designed by Dynatrace with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA), expanding on formulas from the open source project Cloud Carbon Footprint. We can calculate an average carbon intensity for every host and cloud region with those two summarized values.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To gain greater agility, Porsche Informatik migrated to a containerized, hybrid cloud environment. But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As more organizations invest in a multicloud strategy, improving cloud operations and observability for increased resilience becomes critical to keep up with the accelerating pace of digital transformation. American Family turned to observability for cloud operations. Step 2: Instrument compute and serverless cloud technologies.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cloud environments—including multicloud, hybrid, and cloud-native ecosystems—offer unmatched agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, though they also present new challenges and complexities that are impossible to manage manually. The post Tame cloud complexity with answer-driven automation appeared first on 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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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To gain greater agility, Porsche Informatik migrated to a containerized, hybrid cloud environment. But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms. But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing. Certainly, this is true for us.

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