Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. Why manual alerting falls short As your product and deployments scale horizontally and vertically, the sheer volume of data makes it impossible for teams to catch every error quickly using manual processes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored and processed, it’s essential to ensure that systems are secure and protected against potential threats. The deep insights into application code provided by OneAgent® help track potentially vulnerable data flow within an application.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

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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. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you need typically used failure-rate or response-time metrics to ensure your system’s availability and performance or if you need to rely on abnormal log drops to gain insights into raising problems—SLOs leveraged with Grail provide all the information you need. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Log analytics, on the other hand, is the process of using the gathered logs to extract business or operational insight.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Whether you’re troubleshooting a specific issue or looking to improve overall system performance, Distributed tracing equips you with the tools you need to make informed decisions and maintain a high standard of application performance. To understand the benefits of the Distributed Tracing app, let’s take a look at a typical scenario.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice? Cloud Automation use cases.

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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. Applications must migrate to the new mechanism, as using the deprecated file upload mechanism leaves systems vulnerable.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2025

Heres more about the VMware security advisory and how you can quickly find affected systems using Dynatrace so you canautomate remediation efforts. With a TOCTOU vulnerability, an attacker can manipulate a system between the time a resource’s state is checked and when it’s used, also known as a race condition.

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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. In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. And how did we arrive at thispoint?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Many observability solutions don’t support an “as code” approach.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. asc | fields `Host`, `Recently Restarted?

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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. Our detailed analysis not only illuminates the specifics of CVE-2024-53677 but also offers practical measures to secure your software systems against similar threats.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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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

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

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. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Real-world context: Determine if vulnerabilities are linked to internet-facing systems or databases to help you prioritize the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk. Unified vulnerabilities view The new Dynatrace platform consolidates third-party and code-level vulnerabilities into a single, intuitive view.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

CI/CD is a series of interconnected processes that empower developers to build quality software through well-aligned and automated development, testing, delivery, and deployment. As Deloitte reports, continuous integration (CI) streamlines the process of internal software development. Continuous integration streamlines development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

All four players involved in the device were on the call: there was the large European pay TV company (the operator) launching the device, the contractor integrating the set-top-box firmware (the integrator), the system-on-a-chip provider (the chip vendor), and myself (Netflix). They supplied a script to automate the process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. All the code you get with the Dataflow sample workflows is fully functional, adjusted to your environment and isolated from other sample workflows that others generated.

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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 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Process portability. million in 2020. The solution: container as a service.

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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. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Source code tests.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

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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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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process. These services can be developed and maintained separately, promoting code modularity and enhancing overall system agility.

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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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