The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

And by “sample” we mean “an example”, like food samples in your local grocery store. 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. 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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring. For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries. It highlights the potential of GPT technology to drive “information democracy” even further.

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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

MARCH 27, 2024

The automated extraction of ownership information, for example, from Kubernetes annotations, is therefore essential. 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 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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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

One of the most common examples is the adoption of microservices. 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. When organizations move toward the cloud, their systems also lean toward distributed architectures.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2024

In this article, I will shed some light on what differentiates unit testing from other methods and will bring examples of when we can or cannot do without unit testing. We'll also touch upon automation testing , which plays an important role in ensuring code reliability and quality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. The following example drives the point home. Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Putting it all together.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Did you always want to know more about instrumentation, metrics, and your options for coding with open standards? Are you a Java developer and looking for a working example to get started instrumenting your applications and services?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. And while these examples were resolved by just asking a few questions, in many cases, the answers are more elusive, requiring real-time and historical drill-downs into the processes and dependencies specific to each host.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

Let's take the example of an online marketplace application. These services can be developed and maintained separately, promoting code modularity and enhancing overall system agility.

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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

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

JULY 24, 2024

Dynatrace code modules, enabled via Dynatrace webhook, provide distributed tracing and code-level visibility for applications deployed on Kubernetes. With this approach: Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure (control plane and worker nodes) and workloads are instrumented automatically without manual code change.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

Although you can code the logic that governs communication directly into the microservices, a service mesh abstracts that logic into a parallel layer of infrastructure using a proxy called a sidecar, which runs alongside each service. A service mesh enables DevOps teams to manage their networking and security policies through code.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

With this additional context—for example, location in code, initial and transition states, interaction types, and more—Dynatrace makes sense of the user journey and the technical components in use. Example user action generated by an app using Jetpack Compose auto-instrumentation. Auto-capture support has been expanded.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Every automated workflow consists of easy configuration, extensive trigger options, out-of-the-box actions and integrations, and unprecedented extensibility by leveraging webhooks, JavaScript code, and application actions powered by AppEngine. Example workflow for event-driven vulnerability reporting and escalation.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2025

Below are some of the best practices with coding examples to optimize performance in Azure Cosmos DB. Likewise, in Azure Cosmos DB, optimization is crucial for maximizing efficiency, minimizing costs, and ensuring that your application scales effectively.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The show surrounding logs function provides Dynatrace users with the ability to dive deeper and surface context-specific log lines of the components and services linked to the problem—all without a single line of code or complex query language knowledge. Advanced analytics are not limited to use-case-specific apps.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. Examples of zero-day vulnerabilities. For example, within a week of the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, Microsoft reported more than 1.8

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

OpenPipeline allows you to create custom endpoints for data ingestion and process the events in the pipeline (for example, adding custom pipe-dependent fields to simplify data analysis in a later phase). Give your pipeline a name, for example, Automated discovery from Security Investigator. Go to OpenPipeline.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Broken Apache Struts 2: Technical Deep Dive into CVE-2024-53677The vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate file upload parameters, possibly leading to remote code execution. This allows attackers to manipulate file upload parameters, leading to unauthorized file placement and potentially remote code execution (RCE).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2022

With a critical CVSS rating of 9.8 , Spring4Shell leaves affected systems vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE). In the example below, we have a simple DemoObject class that contains a string attribute message. The Spring Framework exposes the class member of the object the parameter is bound to, for example: [link].

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Years later, a few configuration management solutions came into play that required heavy amounts of coding, but proved that the industry was moving toward compartmentalized automation solutions. These evaluations that I hard-coded into a script were now embedded into the back-end of Ansible’s modular approach.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

They enable product delivery and SRE teams to turn functionality on and off at runtime without deploying new code. This decoupling of code deployment from feature release is a crucial enabler for modern Continuous Delivery practices. This is just one example; applications of any size or maturity can use OpenFeature.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. But increased speed creates a tradeoff: According to another study, nearly half of organizations consciously deploy vulnerable code because of time pressure. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

Code changes are often required to refine observability data. This results in site reliability engineers nudging development teams to add resource attributes, endpoints, and tokens to their source code. This example is a good starting point for exploratory analysis with context-aware Dynatrace Davis insights.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

The following is an example of a query using the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to find out when BSOD issues are being written to Windows System logs. The Dynatrace platform establishes context across all observability data sources – metrics, events, logs, traces, user sessions, synthetic probes, runtime security vulnerabilities, and more.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Products that scan source code before the container is built are known as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools and Static Application Security Test (SAST) tools.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2023

This expansion of Davis AI complements the proven Dynatrace predictive AI model (for example, forecasting and anomalies) and our causal AI model (for example, determination of a problem’s root cause, security risks, user impact, and steering automation), which are at the core of the Dynatrace platform.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For example, nearly two-thirds (61%) of technology leaders say they will increase investment in AI over the next 12 months to speed software development. For example, 73% of technology leaders are investing in AI to generate insight from observability, security, and business events data.

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DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2021

In this article I will provide you with an Entity Framework example, typically resembling the type of code you'd see being used out there, against the typical Hyperlambda equivalent. Watch me run you through the code below.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In addition to requiring a high degree of custom coding, feature flags can rapidly accrue technical debt that can be opaque to diagnose. Using scripting tags, feature flags work without having to deploy new code. Deploy code without releasing it to end users such as new functionality hidden by default behind a feature flag.

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