Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a hands-on demo that showcases how the Distributed Tracing app transforms raw OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights Set up the Demo To run this demo yourself, you’ll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant. If you don’t have one, you can use a trial account.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. But, generating telemetry data is the easy part. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2025

However, you can simplify the process by automating guardians in the Site Reliability Guardian (SRG) to trigger whenever there are AWS tag changes, helping teams improve compliance and effectively manage system performance. Note that EC2 is an example; this guide can be made to work generically for tag changes on any AWS resource.

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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. The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

AI transformation, modernization, managing intelligent apps, safeguarding data, and accelerating productivity are all key themes at Microsoft Ignite 2024. Adopting AI to enhance efficiency and boost productivity is critical in a time of exploding data, cloud complexities, and disparate technologies.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DevOps and security teams managing today’s multicloud architectures and cloud-native applications are facing an avalanche of data. This has resulted in visibility gaps, siloed data, and negative effects on cross-team collaboration. At the same time, the number of individual observability and security tools has grown.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We are in the era of data explosion, hybrid and multicloud complexities, and AI growth. Dynatrace analyzes billions of interconnected data points to deliver answers, not just data and dashboards sending signals without a path to resolution. Picture gaining insights into your business from the perspective of your users.

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DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures.

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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

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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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. This is crucial because middleware often serves as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, handling a high volume of requests and data processing tasks.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial. AI and machine learning can be used to gain deeper insights into your data, improve business outcomes, and help you pull ahead of the competition. How do you make this happen?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of cloud computing and event-driven applications, efficiency and flexibility are absolute necessities. A smooth flow of messages in an event-driven application is the key to its performance and efficiency. The volume of data generated and transmitted these days is growing at a rapid pace.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This is why were excited to announce the launch of Dynatrace Live Debugger , a revolutionary tool that provides developers with visibility and data access to their running applications.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive deep into the concept of database sharding, a critical technique for scaling databases to handle large volumes of data and high levels of traffic. This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. EdgeConnect facilitates seamless interaction, ensuring data security and operational efficiency. Figure 2: Editing the host pattern of an existing EdgeConnect configuration.

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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. It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure.

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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? In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

However, your responsibilities might change or expand, and you need to work with unfamiliar data sets. Activate Davis AI to analyze charts within seconds Davis AI can help you expand your dashboards and dive deeper into your available data to extract additional information.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This rising risk amplifies the need for reliable security solutions that integrate with existing systems. Through this integration, Dynatrace enriches data collected by Microsoft Sentinel to provide organizations with enhanced data insights in context of their full technology stack. Audit logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. Store the data in an optimized, highly distributed datastore.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh?—?A A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A After evaluating the options , the team has decided to create Data Mesh as our next generation data pipeline solution.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Key insights for executives: Optimize customer experiences through end-to-end contextual analytics from observability, user behavior, and business data. Dynatrace connects service-side observability data to customers’ experiences and business outcomes. Avoid the cost of customer churn by optimizing customer experience.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Successful compliance with privacy rights requests involves tracking and verifying requests across the entire data ecosystem, including third-party services.

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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. Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building a strong messaging system is critical in the world of distributed systems for seamless communication between multiple components. A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture.

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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? What is Apache Kafka?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In today's cloud computing world, all types of logging data are extremely valuable. Logs can include a wide variety of data, including system events, transaction data, user activities, web browser logs, errors, and performance metrics. This innovative service is transforming the way organizations handle their log data.

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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. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When there isn’t enough traffic (requests/min) for an SLO Detection becomes sporadic, resulting in insufficient data points for establishing the sampling interval necessary for generating “Event duration.” This assumes that if there’s an absence of data, the Service Level Objective (SLO) must be assessed at 100%.

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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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