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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DZone

MARCH 29, 2023

Data migration is the process of moving data from one location to another, which is an essential aspect of cloud migration. Data migration involves transferring data from on-premise storage to the cloud. With the rapid adoption of cloud computing , businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud.

Best Practices 315

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Infrastructure and operations teams must maintain infrastructure health for IT environments. With the Infrastructure & Operations app ITOps teams can quickly track down performance issues at their source, in the problematic infrastructure entities, by following items indicated in red.

Infrastructure 193

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

Big Data 258

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

“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. .” What is infrastructure as code? What challenges does IAC solve?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. However, today’s IT teams are stretched thin, with little time to firefight issues with deployment, integration, and data center management. That’s where hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, comes in.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform.

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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 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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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Whether necessary as part of deep root-cause analyses of issues faced by your users that impact your business or if you’re an engineer responsible for the infrastructure hosting your applications and network paths. A set of metrics allowing query results with Data Explorer and creating advanced reporting using Dynatrace Dashboards.

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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? How does a data lakehouse work?

Artificial Intelligence 221

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Dynatrace continues to deliver on its commitment to keeping your data secure in the cloud. Enhancing data separation by partitioning each customer’s data on the storage level and encrypting it with a unique encryption key adds an additional layer of protection against unauthorized data access.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Considering the latest State of Observability 2024 report, it’s evident that multicloud environments not only come with an explosion of data beyond humans’ ability to manage it. It’s increasingly difficult to ingest, manage, store, and sort through this amount of data. You can find the list of use cases here.

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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.

Storage 240

Storage Government Network Monitoring 240

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Predictive AI uses machine learning, data analysis, statistical models, and AI methods to predict anomalies, identify patterns, and create forecasts. This data-driven approach fosters continuous refinement of processes and systems.

Artificial Intelligence 271

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

I have ingested important custom data into Dynatrace, critical to running my applications and making accurate business decisions… but can I trust the accuracy and reliability?” ” Welcome to the world of data observability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

To provide maximum freedom in selecting the service-level indicators that matter most to your business, Dynatrace combines SLOs with the power of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse, the central data platform with heterogeneous and contextually linked data. This is where Grail, the Dynatrace central data platform, excels.

Metrics 225

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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.

Government 212

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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. At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. To unlock business value, the data must be: Accessible from anywhere. Data has value only when you can access it, no matter where it lies. Agile business decisions rely on fresh data. Easy to access. Contextualized.

Analytics 174

Analytics Airlines Metrics Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

The jobs executing such workloads are usually required to operate indefinitely on unbounded streams of continuous data and exhibit heterogeneous modes of failure as they run over long periods. Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks.

Engineering 192

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 192

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

Analytics 222

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. However, cloud infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Further, the delivery infrastructure that makes this happen has also become complex.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT. Benefits of observability.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, the Parliament of India released the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , which regulates the processing of digital personal data in India and recognizes the right of individuals to protect their data in India. Dynatrace is already supported in 17 local regions on three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With this solution, customers will be able to use Dynatrace’s deep observability , advanced AIOps capabilities , and application security to all applications, services, and infrastructure, out-of-the-box. This means you no longer have to procure new hardware, which can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight. Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices.

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 327

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. Overall, this results in a better security posture.

Java 198

Java Analytics Infrastructure Cloud 198

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

ln a world driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, businesses increasingly turn to data-driven decision-making to stay agile. They’re unleashing the power of cloud-based analytics on large data sets to unlock the insights they and the business need to make smarter decisions. All of these factors challenge DevOps maturity.

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DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 196

DZone

JUNE 13, 2023

Data centers play a critical role in the digital era, as they provide the necessary infrastructure for processing, storing, and managing vast amounts of data required to support modern applications and services.

Energy 189

Energy Efficiency Government Infrastructure 189

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 227

Scalegrid

JANUARY 15, 2021

Auditing in information technology (IT) is a process of examining an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed by recognized standards or established policies.

Infrastructure 319

Infrastructure Database Technology Technology 319

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DevSecOps teams can address this unsettling tradeoff by automating processes throughout the SDLC, centralizing application configuration with a shared set of tools, and using observability platforms to gain visibility into code-quality lapses, security gaps, and other software development issues.

Serverless 278

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 278

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes.

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