The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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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. Collect observability and security data user behavior, metrics, events, logs, traces (UMELT) once, store it together and analyze in context. For example, user behavior helps identify attacks or fraud.

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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.

Analytics 264

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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

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.

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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

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?

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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 8, 2020

One of the promises of container orchestration platforms is to make i t easier for the developers to accelerate the deployment of their app lication s without having to worry about scalability and infrastructure dependencies. It is important to understand the impact infrastructure can have on the platform and the application it runs.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 278

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 246

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

Anyone moving to the cloud knows that it isn’t just a change from running servers in your data center to running them in someone else’s data center. If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. Able to provide answers, not just data.

Infrastructure 230

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 230

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.

Artificial Intelligence 290

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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?

Latency 147

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 8, 2020

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

Infrastructure 244

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Network traffic data aggregation and filtering for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks.

Traffic 264

Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 264

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 278

Storage Government Network DevOps 278

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Visualize your synthetic monitor data.

Infrastructure 213

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 213

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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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.

Latency 252

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 252

DZone

MARCH 22, 2024

In today's data-driven world, businesses face numerous challenges when it comes to storing, securing, and analyzing vast amounts of information. Enter StoneFly , a leading provider of storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) solutions that aim to simplify your life and tackle complex business problems head-on.

Storage 189

Storage Scalability Development Network 189

DZone

JULY 3, 2023

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. In this article, we will explore the benefits of leveraging IaC for data engineering projects and provide detailed implementation steps to get started.

Data Engineering 150

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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. Log management and analytics have become a particular challenge.

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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.

Analytics 246

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimize cost and availability while staying compliant Observability data like logs and metrics provide automated answers, root cause detection, and security issues. Customer decisions about data retention are often determined by important security, privacy, and legal issues.

Analytics 246

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 246

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 263

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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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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

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 279

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Analytics Engineering 279

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.

DevOps 272

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud 295

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Data scientists at Netflix relish our culture that empowers them to work autonomously and use their judgment to solve problems independently. How could we improve the quality of life for data scientists?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Data Store.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

Media 297

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metadata and assets must be correctly configured, data must flow seamlessly, microservices must process titles without error, and algorithms must function as intended. This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

Traffic 172

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 172

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. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

Analytics 246

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding that the first mile of getting data in can often be the hardest, Dynatrace continues to invest in log ingest, offering a range of out-of-the-box solutions within the Dynatrace Platform and apps. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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