The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. This process can also be used to track the provenance of increments.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. ” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example.

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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. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? This generated code contains classes for defined messages, together with message and field descriptors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. On the other hand, deploying new code on the backend is complex and offers no such transparency. Learn the code How often do you dive into a code you dont understand?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2025

They offer a comprehensive end-to-end solution to these challenges, providing functionalities designed to enhance compliance and resilience in IT environments. Smartscape topology visualizes the relationships between applications, services, processes, hosts, and data centers, highlighting problems and vulnerabilities.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This process involves: Identifying Stakeholders: Determine who is impacted by the issue and whose input is crucial for a successful resolution. To address this, we introduced the term Title Health, a concept designed to help us communicate effectively and capture the nuances of maintaining each titles visibility and performance.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This vulnerability, published as CVE-2024-53677 on December 11, 2024, affects the file upload mechanism, allowing for path traversal and potential remote code execution. It utilizes a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture to separate business logic, page design, and control flow.

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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. There are so many benefits. Important note.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. It automatically discovers and monitors each host’s applications, services, processes, and infrastructure components.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. A natural solution is to make flows configurable using configuration files, so variants can be defined without changing the code. Configs can of course also be used within yourflow. You can access Configs of any past runs easily through the Client API.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Using a low-code visual workflow approach, organizations can orchestrate key services, automate critical processes, and create new serverless applications.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Working as a designer on a design system for a large product has taught me how precious the time you spend on a single task/component is. Things advance fast, and I try to keep up making it work for both designers and developers.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

This decision, seemingly technical at its core, extends far beyond the area of coding, straight into the strategic planning that can make or break the early stages of a startup. The appeal of building a system that's inherently designed to grow and adapt as the startup evolves is undeniable.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. The short plus medium code covers all lengths up to 255 bytes.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. Software bugs Software bugs and bad code releases are common culprits behind tech outages.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

With the help of open-source solutions and agile APIs, teams can now deliver and maintain code more efficiently than ever. In short, combining development and operations makes it possible for process to keep pace with progress. So, what does this combined process look like in practice? Solving for silos. Development potential.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, each deliverable in the project, like the requirements, design, code, documents, user interface, etc., Moreover, we may test the code based on the user and functional requirements or specifications, i.e., black-box testing. We may also need to test the structure of the code, i.e., white box testing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

This process, known as auto-adaptive thresholding, eliminates the need to define a static threshold upfront. To provide automated feedback for developers, the concept of quality gates for static code analysis in continuous integration is widely adopted throughout the industry.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

One large team generally maintains the source code in a centralized repository that’s visible to all engineers, who commit their code in a single build. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

” Junior developers are trained to think that if the code solves the problem, the job is finished. We no longer need to spend loads of time training developers; we can train them to be “prompt engineers” (which makes me think of developers who arrive on time), and they will ask the AI for the code, and it will deliver.

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There are various steps in the SDLC paradigm, such as requirement gathering, analysis, coding, design, execution, testing, and deployment. All of these steps go through the software testing process's tiers of testing.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A DevSecOps approach advances the maturity of DevOps practices by incorporating security considerations into every stage of the process, from development to deployment. DevSecOps best practices provide guidelines to help organizations achieve efficient and secure application design, development, implementation, and management.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This blog post guides you through configuring Dynatrace to automate CI/CD processes to achieve these objectives. Build stage General practice The build stage involves pulling the latest code, compiling it, and ensuring its proper functionality by running feature tests. The below screenshot shows the code initiating the Jenkins job.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Platform engineers design and implement these platforms, as well as ensure their security, scalability, and reliability. Other aspects of the discipline — such as infrastructure as code, automation, and standardization — reduce extraneous manual processes to increase developer productivity.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is not a specific process, but rather a general collection of flexible software creation and delivery practices that looks to close the gap between software development and IT operations. DevOps as a philosophy.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your companys AI assistant confidently tells a customer its processed their urgent withdrawal requestexcept it hasnt, because it misinterpreted the API documentation. When we talk about conversational AI, were referring to systems designed to have a conversation, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions in real time.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As more organizations adopt cloud-native architectures, they are also looking for ways to implement AIOps, harnessing AI as a way to automate more processes throughout the DevSecOps life cycle. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

Flow Designer for more consistency in the delivery cycle. At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. Flow Designer then connects the tools for you. How is this done?

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