The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination. But gaining observability of distributed environments, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containerized application deployments, presents formidable challenges.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. The benefit of doing this is the entire site’s source code can live in Git. Mike Neumegen.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Typically, the attackers attempt to exploit some weakness in the vendor’s development or delivery life cycle and attempt to inject malicious code before an application is signed and certified. It all starts with the code. Dynatrace has established a secure SDL, which automatically enforces that all developed code is reviewed by a peer.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although DORA helps banking and financial institutions prevent, respond to, and recover from critical cybersecurity incidents, DORA compliance could present many hurdles for financial institutions. For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-6632, allows the abuse of a form submission during the setup process to make unauthorized modifications of the database. So far, the vulnerability only appears to be exploitable by an authenticated user during the setup process. How could an attacker exploit the new SQL injection vulnerability?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In business-critical situations, the amount of information that’s processed by Davis goes way beyond what a human operator could ever hope to process manually. Davis has the unique ability to precisely identify code-level findings, such as resource consumption during the span of an individual transaction.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

To ensure consistent progress in app development, it’s crucial to stay updated and integrate these innovations into your development process. 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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For executives, these directives present several challenges, including compliance complexity, resource allocation for continuous monitoring, and incident reporting. Carefully planning and integrating new processes and tools is critical to ensuring compliance without disrupting daily operations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, one of the most challenging areas is the use of thick client presentation layers, such as SAP’s Graphical User Interface (SAPGUI). . SAP provides SAP GUI , known as one of the presentation layers to access ECC and S/4HANA applications. What happens to user performance during close cycles? .

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Fully automatic deep code monitoring module injection. One of the unique strengths of Dynatrace OneAgent is the fully automated injection of the deep code monitoring module on Windows and Linux. Fully automated deep code monitoring module injection is available for all customers as of OneAgent version 1.175. This is why AIX 6.1

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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! This is useful if a workflow is designed to always process the latest data, such as processing the latest snapshot of an entire table each time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. In this context, they refer to a count very close to accurate, presented with minimal delays. Introducing sufficient jitter to the flush process can further reduce contention. The challenge lies in determining the appropriate number of buckets.

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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. There are a number of utilities and conventions on how to use this message when it is present in an RPC request. FieldMask is a protobuf message. Our protobuf message definition (.proto

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

DevSecOps is a methodology that brings development, security and operations teams closer together to ensure high-quality, secure application code. DevSecOps presents organizations that are already practicing DevOps with an alternate, more proactive perspective on security. DevSecOps is short for development, security, and operations.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Source code tests. Image scanners.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

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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). Go to the Pre-processing tab and add a new processor with the type Add Fields. Write this down for later usage.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Building on the success of DevOps practices, GitOps is a relatively new way to manage infrastructure through code and automation, around a single Git repository (or a storage system for all the changes and files that relate to a given project). Development teams use GitOps to specify their infrastructure requirements in code.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. In response, organizations have adopted additional security tools, such as software composition analysis, that scan code libraries for vulnerabilities. Dynatrace news. Both approaches resulted in lost time and resources.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

The risk of impact from an existing known vulnerability also depends on whether certain processes are using the vulnerable parts of a software component. This information specifies which function in the source code relates to a vulnerability. Process group 1 doesn’t use the function that contains the vulnerability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

This gives you deep visibility into your code running in Azure Functions, and, as a result, an understanding of its impact on overall application performance and user experience. Code-level visibility continues to be supported for.NET-based functions running in an App Service plan. Optimize your code with code-level visibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. Local development tools including specialized test runners, code generators, and a command line interface. Productivity?—?Local

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Developers also need to automate the release process to speed up deployment and reliability. This created a classic “snowflake effect” because of the risk of code duplication: if something breaks, you need to fix it in multiple places.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Configuration as code is easy to use, update, and understand.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

To further enrich log data for automated observability, it’s necessary to dynamically tie logs to distributed traces on the code level, user sessions in the app front-end, and the topology of your IT landscape. OneAgent processes rules precisely in this order, with host scope rules processed before host group and tenant scope rules.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s present in major platforms from Amazon Web Services to VMware, and services large and small. The web of dependencies among affected platforms and services means patching can be a complex and possibly time-consuming process. Any code can be executed on the attacked system, for example, to access sensitive configuration data.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Teams are embracing new technologies and continuously deploying code. As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . D evelopment teams can accelerate DevSecOps processes through automation and the elimination of mundane work. .

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

If you want to know more about keptn, I encourage you to check out www.keptn.sh , “What is keptn and how to get started” (blog), “Getting started with keptn” (YouTube) or my slides on Shipping Code like a keptn. In my case, both prometheus.knative-monitoring pods jumped in Process CPU and I/O request bytes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

“It was an iterative process allowing us to reflect on the past, present, and future of Dynatrace, discuss our findings, and explore the results received in the employee experience discovery.” ” Dynatrace CEO, Rick McConnell Now, our refreshed Dynatrace Core Values are established.

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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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