The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Move beyond logs-only security: Embrace a comprehensive, end-to-end approach that integrates all data from observability and security. In dynamic and distributed cloud environments, the process of identifying incidents and understanding the material impact is beyond human ability to manage efficiently.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

As an executive, I am always seeking simplicity and efficiency to make sure the architecture of the business is as streamlined as possible. Here are five strategies executives can pursue to reduce tool sprawl, lower costs, and increase operational efficiency. No delays and overhead of reindexing and rehydration.

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DZone

JULY 13, 2023

In today's data-driven world, organizations need efficient and scalable data pipelines to process and analyze large volumes of data. Medallion Architecture provides a framework for organizing data processing workflows into different zones, enabling optimized batch and stream processing.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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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. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With this new DPS pricing model option, customers can retain data at a fixed low cost with no additional cost to query for up to 35 days. This model provides a predictable way for customers to manage and analyze logs, drive log management tool consolidation, and reduce costs while gaining maximum value from their log data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We kick off with a few topics focused on how were empowering Netflix to efficiently produce and effectively deliver high quality, actionable analytic insights across the company. LORE: How were democratizing analytics atNetflix Apurva Kansara At Netflix, we rely on data and analytics to inform critical business decisions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data proliferation—as well as a growing need for data analysis—has accelerated. They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. This nuanced integration of data and technology empowers us to offer bespoke content recommendations. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

It is an open standard format which organizes data into key/value pairs and arrays detailed in RFC 7159. JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. You can also check out our Working with JSON Data in PostgreSQL vs. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. What is a data lakehouse?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Cloud service providers (CSPs) share carbon footprint data with their customers, but the focus of these tools is on reporting and trending, effectively targeting sustainability officers and business leaders. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is derived from data provided by the cloud providers and data center operators.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency? The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Lost efficiency.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques.

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DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

Data processing in the cloud has become increasingly popular due to its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. This article will explore how these technologies can be used together to create an optimized data pipeline for data processing in the cloud.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2024

At first, data tiering was a tactic used by storage systems to reduce data storage costs. This involved grouping data that was not accessed as often into more affordable, if less effective, storage array choices. Public clouds presently offer a mix of object and file storage options.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. What are the key advantages of DBMS?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. This contextualization of log data enables AI-powered problem detection and root cause analysis at scale. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

With our latest enhancements, were transforming the way you work with trace data. For deeper exploration, our Distributed Tracing app empowers you to analyze raw trace data and uncover insights, whether troubleshooting errors, optimizing performance, or discovering the unknown unknowns. But why stop there?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. based financial services group, discussed how the bank uses log monitoring on the Dynatrace platform with an emphasis on observability and security data.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But IT teams need to embrace IT automation and new data storage models to benefit from modern clouds. As they enlist cloud models, organizations now confront increasing complexity and a data explosion. Data explosion hinders better data insight.

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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. However, there are many obstacles and limitations along the way to becoming a data-driven organization. Understanding the context.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

While this approach can be effective if the model is trained with a large amount of data, even in the best-case scenarios, it amounts to an informed guess, rather than a certainty. But to be successful, data quality is critical. Teams need to ensure the data is accurate and correctly represents real-world scenarios. Consistency.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems. Start your free trial today!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

The Insight TriadAPI To efficiently understand the health of a title and triage issues quickly, all implementations of the observability endpoint must answer: is the title eligible for this phase of promotion, if notwhy is it not eligible, and what can be done to fix any problems. Store the data in an optimized, highly distributed datastore.

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