The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Netflix was thrilled to be the premier sponsor for the 2nd year in a row at the 2023 Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT) in Cambridge, MA. We had a blast connecting with the CODE@MIT community and bonding over our shared enthusiasm for not only rigorous measurement in experimentation, but also stats-themed stickers and swag!

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

Developers are increasingly responsible for ensuring the quality and security of code throughout the software lifecycle. Developer-first observability Adding Rookout to the Dynatrace platform will provide developers with increased code-level observability of Kubernetes-hosted production environments.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Welcome to another chapter in the ongoing series I started covering my journey into the world of cloud-native observability. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

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DZone

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The PHP opcode generated by the PHP engine is strongly influenced by the way you write your code, not only in terms of the number of statements to accomplish a task. Clearly, it matters a lot, and I think it’s obvious to you.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Developers deserve a seamless way to troubleshoot effectively and gain quick insights into their code to identify issues regardless of when or where they arise. Developers not only write code; they’re also accountable for their applications performance and reliability. Browse your code. It’s easy as 1-2-3 1.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What developers want Developers want to own their code in a distributed, ephemeral, cloud, microservices-based environment. This ownership starts with understanding how their code behaves in all environments, resolving issues, and writing and optimizing code in a high-quality, secure, and timely manner.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

One of the main reasons this feature exists is just like with food samples, to give you “a taste” of the production quality ETL code that you could encounter inside the Netflix data ecosystem. " , country_code STRING COMMENT "Country code of the playback session." This is one way to build trust with our internal user base.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

To provide automated feedback for developers, the concept of quality gates for static code analysis in continuous integration is widely adopted throughout the industry. The developer must pause their current engineering work to address the reported issue and consider the code changes they worked on a few days or weeks prior.

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CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

More accurately, DOMContentLoaded signifies that all blocking and defer and type=module code has finished running. Even More Insights While DOMContentLoaded tells us when our defer red code finished running—which is great!—it We might have a DOMContentLoaded at 5s, but did the code start running at 4.8s? log ( window.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Drilling down into “hot” methods and further into the assembly code showed us blocks of code with some instructions exceeding 100 CPI, which is extremely slow. This is the summary of our findings: Numbered markers from 1 to 6 denote the same code/variables across the sources and vTune assembly view.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries. First, SREs must ensure teams recognize intellectual property (IP) rights on any code shared by and with GPTs and other generative AI, including copyrighted, trademarked, or patented content.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

As someone who has worked deep in the coding trenches with developers my whole life, I’ve hand-picked the top three mistakes you can make when moving to Kubernetes. Kubernetes was made for the Configuration as Code paradigm, and all those YAML files belong in a Git repo. Using GitOps tools such as Flux. Through resource allocation!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

Today, engineers are spending an increasing amount of time developing and testing code in production-like environments. Developers, normally confined to the cocoon of the coding stage, find themselves thrust into production-like environments that are rife with intricate dependencies and broad-scale issues. It’s a big deal.)

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

In those vulnerability cases, Dynatrace helps customers immediately prioritize affected code; for instance, prioritizing patching of code that is exposed to the internet over code libraries that are not accessed at all and, therefore, pose no security risk. Q: Do we help with our customers’ entire environments?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Similar to the observability desired for a request being processed by your digital services, it’s necessary to comprehend the metrics, traces, logs, and events associated with a code change from development through to production. Code : The branch for the new feature in a GitHub repository is merged into the main branch.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because container as a service doesn’t rely on a single code language or code stack, it’s platform agnostic. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. The classes of CaaS. Additionally, it’s typically deployed as a subset of IaaS. CaaS vs. PaaS.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Software bugs Software bugs and bad code releases are common culprits behind tech outages. These issues can arise from errors in the code, insufficient testing, or unforeseen interactions among software components. Each of these factors can independently cause a major disruption, but often, outages result from a combination of issues.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

T he testing stage plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of newly built code through the execution of automated test cases. Testing includes integration tests, which assess whether the code functions as intended when interacting with other services and application functionalities.

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

Technical debt takes on various forms from source code smells to security risks to the more serious issue of architectural technical debt. Great tools exist to scan for source code quality and security, but tracking, baselining, and detecting architectural drift has been hard due to the lack of observability, tooling, and best practices.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Monitoring-as-code can also be configured in GitOps fashion. GitOps uses Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) to enable automated and efficient management of cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Dynatrace committed to monitoring-as-code and an API-first approach years ago.

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DZone

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Here I want to skip the nitty-gritty and focus in detail on its killer feature, which is the ability to warn when some change to production code is no longer sufficiently covered by a test suite. Check the links at the end for some good tutorials.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It's not just about avoiding hardcoding secrets into your code, your CI/CD configurations, and more. It's any bit of code, text, or binary data that provides access to a resource or data that should have restricted access. Managing your secrets well is imperative in software development.

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DZone

AUGUST 19, 2024

By automating the integration, testing , and deployment processes, CI/CD helps maintain code quality, reduce manual effort, and provide continuous feedback, ultimately leading to faster and more reliable software delivery. CI/CD is important for the following reasons:

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Injecting monitoring code into your applications without manual configuration ensures continuous and comprehensive monitoring and security. Any required dependencies are thoroughly tested and fixed to specific versions, minimizing the risk of introducing untested code.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Dynatrace ownership functionality supports configuration-as-code via its proprietary Monaco (Monitoring as code) CLI or Terraform. Checkout the already available examples within our publicly available Configuration as Code GitHub repository or our Dynatrace Discover tenant. Contact us to schedule a demo.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This article will focus on the specific recommendations for implementing various distributed system patterns regarding Spring Boot, backed by sample code and professional advice. Spring Boot's default codes and annotation setup lessen the time it takes to design an application.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

focused on technology coverage, building on the flexibility of JMX for Java and Python-based coded extensions for everything else. While Python code can address most data acquisition and ingest requirements, it comes at the cost of complexity in implementation and use-case modeling. Dynatrace Extensions 1.0 Extensions 2.0

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

You write your code, and the cloud provider handles the rest - provisioning, scaling, and maintenance. Reduced operational overhead: Developers can focus purely on writing code and pushing updates, rather than worrying about server upkeep. AWS offers various serverless services, with AWS Lambda being one of the most prominent.

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DZone

MARCH 23, 2023

All We Can Aim for Is Confidence Releasing features is all about confidence: confidence that features work as expected; confidence that our work is based on quality code; confidence that our code is easily maintainable and extendable; and confidence that our releases will make happy customers.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

Adding JUnits and code coverage manually to existing and new code is arduous and painfully slow. Manual sync-up of existing JUnits due to changing code is impractical. Writing JUnits manually for legacy code is a nightmare. Code quality suffers immensely, and technical debt piles up. x Maven-based applications.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

It enables teams to quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues, fix them and optimize the application performance, giving them the confidence to deliver code faster. You need to find the right tools to monitor, track and trace these systems by analyzing outputs through metrics, logs, and traces.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

The article, titled “ K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together ,” applauds the collective efforts of more than 88,000 members of a committed community who have offered code and insight to improve Kubernetes.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

In this article, we will explore how AI can assist in these areas, providing code examples to tackle complex queries. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Along the way, I’ll explain what LoAFs are, why they’re crucial for web performance, and provide code snippets to help you track and debug them in your own projects. In this post, I’ll show you how to use the Performance API and Chrome’s extensibility features to expose LoAF data in DevTools.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But developers need code-level visibility and code-level data.” That’s not how I envision code-level observability,” Laifenfeld said. Laifenfeld argued that developers shouldn’t bear the burden of the additional workload when their focus is their code: “Learning Kubernetes as a developer is not easy,” she said.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Managing Auto-Instrumentation in Pods The Operator automatically injects and configures auto-instrumentation for your applications, which enables you to collect telemetry data without modifying your source code. Instrumentation Instrumentation is the process of adding code to software to generate telemetry signalslogs, metrics, and traces.

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