DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of data has shifted from being merely a byproduct of business to becoming its lifeblood. With businesses constantly in the race to stay ahead, the process of integrating this data becomes crucial.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Business processes support virtually all aspects of an organizations operations. Theyre often categorized by their function; core processes directly create customer value, support processes increase departmental efficiency, and management processes drive strategic goals and compliance.

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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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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

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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A business process is a collection of related, usually structured tasks or steps, performed in sequence, that achieve a defined business goal. Tasks may be manual or automatic, and many business processes will include a combination of both. Make better decisions by providing managers with real-time data about the business.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

The business process observability challenge Increasingly dynamic business conditions demand business agility; reacting to a supply chain disruption and optimizing order fulfillment are simple but illustrative examples. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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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. Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps , the ability to gain deep insights into system behavior, diagnose issues, and improve overall performance is one of the top priorities. Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). ABAC has several advantages: Enhanced security , providing granular control over access permissions, significantly reducing the risk of data breaches and unauthorized activities.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A production bug is the worst; besides impacting customer experience, you need special access privileges, making the process far more time-consuming. It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This cumbersome process should not be the norm.

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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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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. EdgeConnect is designed to forward HTTP(s) requests exclusively, ensuring secure data transmission.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. However, your responsibilities might change or expand, and you need to work with unfamiliar data sets. Your trained eye can interpret them at a glance, a skill that sets you apart.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. Why manual alerting falls short As your product and deployments scale horizontally and vertically, the sheer volume of data makes it impossible for teams to catch every error quickly using manual processes.

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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

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

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems.

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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

JUNE 5, 2024

Batch processing is a capability of App Connect that facilitates the extraction and processing of large amounts of data. Sometimes referred to as data copy , batch processing allows you to author and run flows that retrieve batches of records from a source, manipulate the records, and then load them into a target system.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With the Distributed Tracing app, you can flexibly slice and dice raw trace data to understand what went wrong and why. Find what you’re looking for faster with: Enhanced charting and data visualization: Easily filter, group, search, and visualize trace data to gain deeper insights into your system’s behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 20, 2024

Driven by that value, Dynatrace brings real-time observability, security, and business data into context and makes sense of it so our customers can get answers, automate, predict, and prevent. Executives are sitting on a goldmine of data, and they don’t know it.

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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 245

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Retaining multiple tools generates huge volumes of alerts for analysis and action, slowing down the remediation and risk mitigation processes. In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial. How do you make your changes stick — and prevent future tool sprawl?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Enhanced observability and release validation Dynatrace already excels at delivering full-stack, end-to-end observability of your systems and user journeys. By integrating Dynatrace with GitHub Actions, you can proactively monitor for potential issues or slowdowns in the deployment processes.

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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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