Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The post It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)! Dynatrace news. appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon. This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability.

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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

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. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems. Large and centralized systems can present a host of challenges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

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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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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. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? backfill.sch.yaml ??? daily.sch.yaml ???

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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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 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you need typically used failure-rate or response-time metrics to ensure your system’s availability and performance or if you need to rely on abnormal log drops to gain insights into raising problems—SLOs leveraged with Grail provide all the information you need. We look forward to hearing from you.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. 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. Manually constructed continuous delivery system.

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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. They are generally backward-looking, relying on data stored in accounting and other business systems for a historical perspective.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

message Item ( Bytes key, Bytes value, Metadata metadata, Integer chunk ) Database Agnostic Abstraction The KV abstraction is designed to hide the implementation details of the underlying database, offering a consistent interface to application developers regardless of the optimal storage system for that use case.

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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. Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“It’s kind of wild that we expect more transparency from a nonbiodegradable snack than we do from the software that runs our organizations, our critical infrastructure, and our national security systems.” After pushing for a faster timeline, the White House told the government it had 60 days to issue a minimum definition of SBOMs.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This document details the intriguing process of debugging this issue, all the way from the UI down to the Linux kernel. Restarting the ipykernel process, which runs the Notebook, might temporarily alleviate the problem, but the frustration persists as more notebooks are run. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.

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DZone

JULY 11, 2023

Artificial Intelligence: Definition and Practical Applications Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI encompasses various techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing , computer vision, and robotics.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Combined with Dynatrace OneAgent ® , you gain a precise view of the status of your systems at a glance. Are all network devices up and running, and is the network providing reliable and swift access to your systems? into NAM test definitions. But is this all you need? Our script, available on GitHub , provides details.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Comprehensive observability eliminates siloed views of the system and establishes a common means to observe, measure, and act on insights. Check out the full webinar here!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They explore platform engineering’s multiple definitions, its pros and cons, and how practitioners can shape this emerging DevOps concept. The software development lifecycle is a complex system with many moving parts. Understanding the platform engineer role DevOps is a constantly evolving discipline.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Working within the time budget introduces an extra resource constraint for the recommender system. The evaluation process may include trying to recognize the show from its box art, watching trailers, reading its synopsis or in some cases reading reviews for the show on some external website.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 230

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. This is made possible through generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities. For organizations building business-centric SLOs, Aguiar had some recommendations. “If

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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. Deployment and rollback —Trigger predefined rollback or roll-forward actions when a faulty deployment violates SLOs or decreases your error budget above the target.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

IoT – Data processing on edge locations. It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud. AWS System Manager.

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Percona

APRIL 4, 2023

Odds are you are not using a column named Master_tls_ciphersuites , but what about Rank , System , Skip , or Lead ? Those are a lot more common and may be in your table definitions, so your upgrade process will be harder. Reserved words added to 8.0

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Topology definition and entity extraction rules. documentation.

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