The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By open-sourcing the project, we hope to contribute to the Java and GraphQL communities and learn from and collaborate with everyone who will be using the framework to make it even better in the future. The transition to the new federated architecture meant that many of our backend teams needed to adopt GraphQL in our Java ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It results in remote code execution (RCE) by submitting a specially composed request. In summary, the Log4Shell exploit allows an attacker to instruct the vulnerable system to download, and subsequently execute, a malicious command. Java processes with public-facing internet exposures are an easy target for this type of abuse.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2022

Because 60% of developers use Spring for their Java applications , many applications are potentially affected. With a critical CVSS rating of 9.8 , Spring4Shell leaves affected systems vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE). Further, the report lists Tomcat as the most popular Java application server.

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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. Proprietary SDKs create adoption challenges. SDKs are lightweight, developer friendly, and flexible.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We decided to move one of our Java microservices?—?let’s We turned to JVM-specific profiling, starting with the basic hotspot stats, and then switching to more detailed JFR (Java Flight Recorder) captures to compare the distribution of the events. The problem It started off as a routine migration. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. It also … The post Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In April of this year, we released a long-awaited GA version of the full-stack OneAgent for the IBM AIX operating system. AIX is considered to be one of the core operating systems used by our largest customers. Fully automatic deep code monitoring module injection. TL9 SP9 (see details below). Deployment of OneAgent on AIX 6.1

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. While some argue that just because Java is older it is better, others believe Scala is better for a variety of reasons. In essence, Java is classified as an object oriented programming language. The Size and Quality of the Code.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Considering open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, this threat is not going anywhere anytime soon. Cloud operations and observability boost resilience for American Family – blog.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It results in remote code execution (RCE) by submitting a specially composed request. In summary, the Log4Shell vulnerability allows an attacker to instruct the vulnerable system to download, and subsequently execute, a malicious command. Java processes with public-facing internet exposures are an easy target for this type of abuse.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Logs are a crucial component in the mix that help BizDevOps teams understand the full story of what’s happening in a system. With PurePath ® distributed tracing and analysis technology at the code level, Dynatrace already provides the deepest possible insights into every transaction. How to get started.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Teams are embracing new technologies and continuously deploying code. But what if you could see what’s running in production in real-time, continuously analyzing all services for vulnerabilities, and prioritizing those based on what code is called? They also can’t provide deep insights unless you have source code access.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In cloud-native application stacks, everything is code. Dynatrace entered the Application Security market with automatic and continuous protection for Java workloads. and Java are the most popular languages within Kubernetes environments. Automatic vulnerability detection for Kubernetes platform versions.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

In May 2023 the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-36641 in the Java library aXMLRPC was published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). To what extent attacks are possible depends on the Java version and other environmental factors. xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We had an interesting challenge on our hands: we needed to build the core of our app from scratch, but we also needed data that existed in many different systems. Having our core logic isolated means we can easily change data source details without a significant impact or major code rewrites to the codebase.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Compare Ease of Use.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. Spring Boot, on the other hand, is a Java framework for building cloud-native Java applications. Here’s how it works. of Micrometer.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This information specifies which function in the source code relates to a vulnerability. The Dynatrace third-party vulnerabilities solution provides key capabilities for detailed and continuous insights into vulnerable software components present in an IT system. The vulnerable function in the software package is highlighted in red.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? The scale and the highly distributed systems result in enormous amounts of data. They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging error messages in applications. Without a centralized approach to vulnerability management, DevSecOps teams waste time figuring out how a vulnerability affects the production environment and which systems to fix first. Contextual insight.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 9, 2022

Impact : This issue affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. Operating systems. Future Dynatrace OneAgent operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 March 2022. x – 2.12.x.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By using OpenLLMetry and Dynatrace, anyone can get complete visibility into their system, including gen-AI parts with 5 minutes of work.” As the collected data seamlessly integrates with your Dynatrace environment, you can analyze LLM metrics, spans, and logs in the context of all traces and code-level information.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers. We categorize it as a system service if no such association is found.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. Operating systems. Future Dynatrace OneAgent operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 February 2022. Impact : This issue will rarely happen.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

By Jun He , Natallia Dzenisenka , Praneeth Yenugutala , Yingyi Zhang , and Anjali Norwood TL;DR We are thrilled to announce that the Maestro source code is now open to the public! Maestro supports dynamic parameters with code injection, which is super useful and powerful. Please visit the Maestro GitHub repository to get started.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Consider the Log4Shell vulnerability , which emerged in December 2021 and is estimated to have affected hundreds of millions of systems worldwide. The vulnerability is located in Log4j 2, an open-source Apache Java software used to run logging services in a host of front-end and backend applications.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They are part of continuous delivery pipelines and examine code to find vulnerabilities. There is another critical element that needs to be addressed: how do you protect applications against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities while DevSecOps teams simultaneously try to resolve those issues in the code ? How to get started.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging information in applications. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2. Coordination and communication. Coordination and communication.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service. Java…Script?

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