The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In today's interconnected world, computer networks have become the backbone of modern communication and information exchange. They enable the seamless transmission of data, facilitate collaboration, and connect individuals and devices across the globe.

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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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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Accurate time is crucial for all financial transactions, data synchronization, network security, and even just making sure that devices around the world are in sync. NTP servers, which manage the Network Time Protocol, are essential in achieving this.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the constant evolution of this sector, the dynamic duo of AI and ML is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry, propelling it towards greater network efficiency, unparalleled customer service, and fortified security measures. Here's an example of how machine learning can optimize network performance:

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DZone

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Traditional statistical methods like ARIMA and exponential smoothing have served us well but have limitations in capturing complex non-linear relationships in data. This is where Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) offer an edge, providing a powerful tool for modeling complex time-dependent phenomena.

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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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DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In this article, I aim to discuss modern approaches used to reduce the time required to establish a data transmission channel between two nodes. I will be examining both plain TCP and TLS-over-TCP. What Is a Handshake? First, let’s define what a handshake is, and for that, an illustration of the TCP handshake serves very well:

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Complexity and data volume for IT infrastructure soars to new heights. The volume of data and events grows in tandem with the rising complexity of IT infrastructure. Monitoring modern IT infrastructure is difficult, sometimes impossible, without advanced network monitoring tools. How SNMP traps help detect problems.

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DZone

MARCH 18, 2024

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? In IBM Cloud, we have proprietary hardware like the FortiGate firewall that resides inside IBM Cloud data centers today. VNFs are virtualized network services that are packaged as virtual machines (VMs) on commodity hardware.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This, of course, is exacerbated by the new Vitals announcement, whereby data from the Chrome User eXperience Report will be used to aid and influence rankings. The data is static which isn’t necessarily a drawback until it is—DevTools allows us to work far more quickly and interactively, responding to changes and tweaks as we make them.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. Would you like to access all your monitoring data on a single platform? Dynatrace has you covered—Dynatrace extensions collect the necessary data and offer improved visibility wherever you need a single platform for IM and APM purposes. Start monitoring in minutes. Interfaces.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

This is the ability to see into and measure the current state of a system based on the data it generates, which typically includes logs, metrics, traces, end-user experiences, and context across cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. This blog originally appeared in Federal News Network. First, let’s discuss observability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With all the data collected and powered by our Davis AI-driven causation engine, Dynatrace automatically identifies slowdowns in your applications and services and points you to their root cause. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. Network services visibility (DNS, NTP, ActiveDirectory).

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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

We all know that data is being generated at an unprecedented rate. You may also know that this has led to an increase in the demand for efficient and secure data storage solutions that won’t break the bank. This article will explore what edge data platforms and real-time services are, why they are important, and how they can be used.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. We expect complete and accurate data at the end of each run.

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DZone

JULY 31, 2024

My name is Maksim Kupriianov, and for the past few years, I have been actively involved in network monitoring. The probes are sent and the results are analyzed continuously, with new data coming in every second.

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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. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

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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

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions. optimizing traffic routing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Without having network visibility, it’s not possible to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). billion in 2022.

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DZone

MARCH 27, 2023

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing. RDDs are an abstraction of a distributed collection of data that can be processed in parallel across a cluster of machines. What Is Apache Spark?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

When a MongoDB rollback happens, it can cause trouble to your data integrity and system consistency. Understanding how to address a rollback is critical for minimizing potential data loss and maintaining seamless operations. With direct, actionable insights, prepare to navigate the complexities of rollbacks with confidence.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The session focused on how agencies are protecting data within the context of zero trust. Reflecting on their discussion, I identified five emerging “truths” about zero trust and data. Identity is not necessarily as important as data because at the end of the day, we steal identities to get to the data,” said Williamson. “I

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bloom filters are probabilistic data structures that allow for efficient testing of an element's membership in a set. They effectively filter out unwanted items from extensive data sets while maintaining a small probability of false positives. Since their invention in 1970 by Burton H.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 10, 2022

It has since expanded to also carry routes for VPNs, IPv6, Multicast, and a range of other data. BGP provides network stability as it guarantees routers can rapidly adapt to send packets via a different connection if one Internet pathway goes down.

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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

APRIL 20, 2020

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. Confidentiality: Data sent over the channel is only visible to the endpoints. Authenticated Encryption For encryption, TLS 1.3

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. Broadcast variables can be used to efficiently distribute large read-only data structures, such as lookup tables, to worker nodes. This can significantly reduce network overhead and improve performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The newly introduced Network devices and Details view within Hosts provide comprehensive health status information, relevant networking signals, and machine metrics—all analyzed and provided by the industry-leading combination of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse and Davis ® AI.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. 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. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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