The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. By default, gRPC uses protobuf as its IDL (interface definition language) and data serialization protocol. Our protobuf message definition (.proto FieldMask is a protobuf message.

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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. Integration with existing processes. This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While memory allocation analysis can show wasteful or inefficient code, it can also reveal different problems, one of which we’ll examine in this blog post. We recently extended the pre-shipped code-level API definitions to group logical parts of our code so they’re consistently highlighted in all code-level views.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

any business logic code in a raw (e.g. Or what if Alice wanted to add new backup functionality and she accidentally broke existing code while updating it? The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. SQL) or compiled (e.g.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. Codebases grow as we write code to add new features. That complexity is often managed with tooling, automation, and process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, a workflow to backfill hourly data for the past five years can lead to 43800 jobs (24 * 365 * 5), each of which processes data for an hour. We would like our users to focus on their business logic and let the orchestrator solve cross-cutting concerns like scheduling, processing, error handling, security etc.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

With all the technology changes through the past three years, with the world moving to K8s, the rise of GitOps, everything as code, event-driven automation, and many new open standards in the cloud-native space, it was time to update our workshop. Cloud Automation SLIs and SLOs can be changed through your git service and process of choice.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. Somebody looking at your code and saying “WTF?”

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is the definition of this model: ?. This innovative model supports continuous delivery in a consistent and reliable way and stays true to the DevOps goal of code moving across the pipeline with more automation and less, or minimal, human intervention. . 1 Performance-as-a-self-service at Pay P al . Get started today! .

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. GitOps: Cloud automation as code. To achieve true automation, we can’t rely on configurations done manually through UIs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They explore platform engineering’s multiple definitions, its pros and cons, and how practitioners can shape this emerging DevOps concept. The “cognitive load” refers to the additional requirements of building an application beyond the code itself. Understanding the platform engineer role DevOps is a constantly evolving discipline.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. Alongside this data ingest, Grail enables highly efficient processing pipelines to enrich ingested data, extract metrics, or add a privacy filter. Retain data.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Impact : This issue affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. On the Service-level objectives page, the Actions > Edit SLO entry has been renamed SLO definition. Corrected issue with process group monitoring overrides. Extension-specific advisory.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

This file is automatically configured with working defaults, but it can be easily modified using a code editor such as VS Code. From here we jump directly into Dynatrace Distributed traces view, shown below, to understand code-level contributions to total processing time. Activate Cloud Native Full Stack injection today.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Business intelligence tools have earned a reputation for being inflexible, lacking the context and real-time insights needed to understand and improve business processes and customer experience. Step 2 : Add processing rules with matcher DQL, data fields, and processor definition. Use case 1: real-time business intelligence.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Simply extract and manipulate your desired time series from Grail within a notebook and copy the query into the SLO definition to get your customized SLO. Hence, having a dedicated dashboard tile visualizing the key parameters of each SLO simplifies the process of evaluating them. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Secondly, knowing who is responsible is essential but not sufficient, especially if you want to automate your triage process. Dynatrace ownership functionality supports configuration-as-code via its proprietary Monaco (Monitoring as code) CLI or Terraform. An example via Monaco can be found in this public GitHub repository.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Further, it enables you to release with confidence by catching poor quality code before it reaches production. Process restarts (for example, JVM memory leaks) —Trigger a service restart or related actions for applications with underlying bug fixes that have been deprioritized or delayed. The costs of downtime.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This document details the intriguing process of debugging this issue, all the way from the UI down to the Linux kernel. Restarting the ipykernel process, which runs the Notebook, might temporarily alleviate the problem, but the frustration persists as more notebooks are run. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The general agreed-upon definition of. We start with metrics, traces, and logs (that’s table stakes) but also provide context and enrichment through topology, behavior, code, metadata, and network, combined with data from application programming interfaces (API) and OpenTelemetry. Figure 2 The scope of Observability compared to APM.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to deploying ActiveGate capabilities as pods, the new Dynatrace Operator also includes: A simplified custom resource definition (CRD) for all Dynatrace components. More ActiveGate capabilities will be available as Kubernetes pods later this year. No need to repeat API endpoints or tokens across OneAgents and API monitors.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Without any coding skills required, you can declare extensions in a human-readable YAML format and activate them in your environment via the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you are working in an agile environment, you may have come across the term ‘code review’. It is a strategic operation where you break the source code into snippets in order to audit the code before it is moved to the testing phase. What Is Code Review? The Need For Code Review.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates. Besides, the mixed-use of the metadata files and business logic code adds another layer of maintenance complexity.

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CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

All code examples are complete and correct. Connection overhead isn’t huge , but too many preconnect s that either a) aren’t critical, or b) don’t get used at all, is definitely wasteful. ichef.bbci.co.uk : Not on the critical path, but does host the homepage’s LCP element. When to Use crossorigin Okay.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, organizations must structure and store data inputs in a specific format to enable extract, transform, and load processes, and efficiently query this data. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. Massively parallel processing.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Dynatrace integration with AWS AppFabric for security The AWS AppFabric for security feature fully manages the integrations with over 25 applications so customers can get started tracking application security in just a few clicks—no coding required. 16) our company users access the internet from.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

We also use Micrometer to analyze ingest queue processing speed, which helps us make decisions about adding resources. Either way, the Dynatrace Micrometer Registry adds proper topology without modifying your code. Definitions of the Slack workflow are also in the Git repository.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

Like the tree in the forest, the microservice falling definitely made a sound. OpenTelemetry works by providing developers with APIs, SDKs, and tools to instrument their code and collect telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces. Or what its falling could mean for all the other services that interact with it.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. Using agile methodologies, developers are constantly updating code and integrating it into production services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. We would need to process authentication tokens (and protocols) further upstream. EAS also covers the read-only processing of tokens to create Passports (more on that later).

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