The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. CDC and data source Change data capture or CDC , is a semantic for processing changes in a source for the purpose of replicating those changes to a sink.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards. Integration with existing processes. This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. Yes, the tools and process should be easier for non-experts to incorporate some performance testing into continuous development process.

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DZone

MARCH 24, 2021

We typically understand software testing by the everyday definition of the word: making sure a piece of software performs the way it is supposed to in a production-like environment. The first category would fall under integration testing, and you definitely need that. Or is there? with a username and password).

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. By default, gRPC uses protobuf as its IDL (interface definition language) and data serialization protocol. Our protobuf message definition (.proto FieldMask is a protobuf message.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming data, accessing and working with data, and triggering automations.

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DZone

MARCH 28, 2021

The technical definition of a ‘deadlock’ is a situation where a set of processes are blocked because each process is holding a resource and waiting for another resource acquired by some other process. What Is a Deadlock? Deadlocks tend to happen in multi-threaded applications.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Business intelligence tools have earned a reputation for being inflexible, lacking the context and real-time insights needed to understand and improve business processes and customer experience. Step 2 : Add processing rules with matcher DQL, data fields, and processor definition. Use case 1: real-time business intelligence.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. The title size of a tile has been moved from the dashboard definition to the dashboard metadata definition and included in the advanced settings UI for dashboards. Application Security. Dashboards. APM-368026).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. ACID deployment : for every scheduler workflow definition change, we would like to have all the workflow assets bundled in an atomic, durable, isolated and consistent manner.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We recently extended the pre-shipped code-level API definitions to group logical parts of our code so they’re consistently highlighted in all code-level views. Another benefit of defining custom APIs is that the memory allocation and surviving object metrics are split by each custom API definition. The handler is responsible for ~3.5

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. With DQL, the workflow trigger to initiate a required automation and remediation process can be defined.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. Alongside this data ingest, Grail enables highly efficient processing pipelines to enrich ingested data, extract metrics, or add a privacy filter. Retain data.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

The first hands-on session is easy to accomplish the 5-minute success challenge, but things heat up in our second session as we walk attendees through either Codifying the SLOs in YAML or using a Dashboard-based definition approach. Cloud Automation SLIs and SLOs can be changed through your git service and process of choice.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. That’s what Cloud Automation does: SLIs, SLOs, Monitoring Definition, Automation Sequences, Tests, Deployment Definitions, etc.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

On the Service-level objectives page, the Actions > Edit SLO entry has been renamed SLO definition. It opens the corresponding SLO on the Service-level objective definitions page, where you can view or edit the SLO definition (depending on your permissions). Service-level objectives. CASP-12511).

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

How do our users tell us which portion and, even more critically, given that the portion of the graph of interest will almost definitely span data exposed by many services, how do we keep the index current with all these various services? The federated gateway, in turn, fetches data from the Studio applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 18, 2022

With the announcement at KubeCon Europe , most components (specification, APIs, SDKs) that create, collect, and process OpenTelemetry metrics now have the complete set of OpenTelemetry metrics functionality and are ready for use. Metrics are stored for easy analysis on dashboards, definition of service level objectives, and more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2021

However, Kim underlined there is no single definition of DevOps, referring to one of his earlier works, The DevOps Handbook , where the practice was described as “architectural practices, technical practices, and cultural norms that allow us to increase our ability to deliver applications and services quickly and safely.”. Barriers to DevOps.

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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 and Fluentd were created for the same purpose: collecting and processing logs, traces, and metrics. Ask yourself, how much data should Fluent Bit process? What is Fluent Bit?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. “can app bar in us-west-2 access this document.” SpiceDB is then responsible for figuring out which relations map back to the autoscaling group, e.g. name, environment, region, etc. What was problematic about this design? with which to experiment. with which to experiment.

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DZone

JUNE 21, 2024

This paper deals with definitions and understanding of structured data vs unstructured data, how various storage segments react to block size changes, and differences between I/O-driven and throughput-driven workloads. This article analyzes the correlation between block sizes and their impact on storage performance.

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Storage Performance Benchmarking Processing 162

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2020

It was also interesting because the plugin – while definitely solving a good use case – wasn’t really used by our teams any longer. This was an interesting find as nobody assumed such a plugin would allocate that many long living objects resulting in high garbage collection. Step #3 – Removing the offending plugin.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. When it comes to DevOps best practices, practitioners need ways to automate processes and make their day-to-day tasks more efficient. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is the definition of this model: ?. In this visual, you can see the whole processing of Keptn deploying, testing, and evaluating performance tests against defined SLIs is automated. A good way to look at how this works can be seen through a few examples from Dynatrace customers that have set up this model. #1 Get started today!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The SEC cybersecurity mandate states that starting December 15 th , all public organizations are required to annually describe their processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risks from any cybersecurity threats on a Form 10-K. Additionally, ensure they are aware of each of their roles and responsibility during the process.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to deploying ActiveGate capabilities as pods, the new Dynatrace Operator also includes: A simplified custom resource definition (CRD) for all Dynatrace components. More ActiveGate capabilities will be available as Kubernetes pods later this year. No need to repeat API endpoints or tokens across OneAgents and API monitors.

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Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 234

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Intertwined processes slow down automation at scale. Developing applications based on modern architectures comes with a challenge for release automation: integrating delivery of many services with similar processes but often with different technologies and tools along the delivery pipelines. To address the problem of processes (i.e.,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Set up alerts for suspicious user activity Being able to explore logs in-depth is very helpful to perform forensic analysis, however, customers really want to get alerted if suspicious activity is going on as soon as logs are processed* by Dynatrace. 16) our company users access the internet from.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Collector is a versatile component thats able to ingest telemetry from a variety of sources, transform the received telemetry in a number of ways based on its configuration, and then export that processed data to any backend that accepts the OpenTelemetry data format (also referred to as OTLP , which stands for OpenTelemetry Protocol).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 14, 2024

The resource is fetched and processed asynchronously while the browser is free to work on whatever other tasks there may be. Visually, this is how that process looks for each scenario: A non-, render-, and parser-blocking file in an HTML document. The two key tasks that are not blocked are rendering and parsing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the past, I tried to understand where in the page-loading process was the majority of time spent. This type of issue would definitely affect conversion rates on a retail site. Once captured, retailers can now create much more complex, complete end-to-end business processes. From click to fulfillment.

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