The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

What is Maestro Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. The transition was seamless, and Maestro has met our design goals by handling our ever-growing workloads. increase in executed jobs.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. As it turns out, we do so just to avoid any disruptions or interruptions of the ongoing process.

Design 145

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. Ask yourself, how much data should Fluent Bit process?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

To do so Netflix’s design required: An event based mechanism that could ingest information about application autoscaling groups. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. workflow ?—?see Example: 0 0 * * MON /home/alice/backup.sh

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. Despite a drive for clear, modular monolithic codebases, all too often these arbitrary in-process boundaries break down.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits. A side note.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, a workflow to backfill hourly data for the past five years can lead to 43800 jobs (24 * 365 * 5), each of which processes data for an hour. We would like our users to focus on their business logic and let the orchestrator solve cross-cutting concerns like scheduling, processing, error handling, security etc.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After pushing for a faster timeline, the White House told the government it had 60 days to issue a minimum definition of SBOMs. In this episode, Friedman explained the challenges with this process, namely balancing perspectives from across government and industry. SBOM is one of them.” government.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Process restarts (for example, JVM memory leaks) —Trigger a service restart or related actions for applications with underlying bug fixes that have been deprioritized or delayed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Therefore, the ingestion approach for data lineage is designed to work with many disparate data sources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable. By using this high-level description we were able to greatly simplify the pipeline creation process for users by filling in common yet required configuration for the Data Mesh pipeline.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. Other Dynatrace components, like ActiveGate, are deployed separately.

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Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 234

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There are several benefits of such optimizations like saving on storage, faster query time, cheaper downstream processing, and an increase in developer productivity by removing additional ETLs written only for query performance improvement. Then deep dive into the merging use case of AutoOptimize and share some results and benefits.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 214

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Definition. Design Validation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 287

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 287

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, organizations must structure and store data inputs in a specific format to enable extract, transform, and load processes, and efficiently query this data. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. Massively parallel processing. Data warehouses.

Artificial Intelligence 221

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 221

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

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Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 220

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

However, because organizations typically use multiple mobile monitoring tools, this process is often far more difficult than it should be. Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

If you still use the legacy version of Log Monitoring ( Log Monitoring v1 ), the Log Monitoring v1 documentation is still available, but we strongly encourage you to switch to the latest Dynatrace Log Monitoring version and gain direct access to the log content of all your mission-critical processes. Kubernetes/OpenShift workload/pod details.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate more processes and testing throughout the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 204

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. Further, Tractor Supply’s transition to Kubernetes introduced many new processes—particularly regarding security. “At one point, we saw a process that was causing a lot of CPU contention.

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Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. These solutions provide performance metrics for applications, with specific insights into the statistics, such as the number of transactions processed by the application or the response time to process such transactions.

Artificial Intelligence 240

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 240

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media Website Development 81

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Change failure rate.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 213

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. We would need to process authentication tokens (and protocols) further upstream. EAS also covers the read-only processing of tokens to create Passports (more on that later).

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence, it became important to supplement our release decisions with strong evidence received from the field during the update process. The new version may include a user facing feature which is designed to be A/B tested and resides behind a feature flag.

Metrics 209

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 209

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

Architecture 178

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 178

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

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Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

“The historical definition of observability is transforming,” Clayton said. These areas together underpin the new Dynatrace Value Incentive Partner Program (VIPP), which we designed to provide more opportunities, more services, and more benefits to our partners. Learn more about the Dynatrace Partner Services Endorsement Program.

Programming 192

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Processes are also a hierarchical concept.

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