DZone

MARCH 5, 2025

Scalability is a fundamental concept in both technology and business that refers to the ability of a system, network, or organization to handle a growing amount of requests or ability to grow. In this article, we will explore the definition of scalability, its importance, types, methods to achieve it, and real-world examples.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

Journald provides unified structured logging for systems, services, and applications, eliminating the need for custom parsing for severity or details. System health, performance troubleshooting, and debugging situations no longer require manual correlation of logs across multiple disconnected tools or servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent. cluster=sandbox, workflow.id=demo.branch_demox.EXP_01.training

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

Delays and failures are inevitable in distributed systems, which may delay IP address change events from reaching FlowCollector. FlowCollector consumes a stream of IP address change events from Sonar and uses this information to attribute flow IP addresses in real-time.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2021

The quality can be subjective, so different teams may use different definitions based on the context. Keeping good code quality is also crucial for developing safety-critical systems. Code can be considered good quality if it is clear, simple, well tested, bug-free, refactored, documented, and performant.

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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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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Everyone has their own definition of true leadership. In some instances, these individuals stood their ground and continued forward in the face of violence, war, political and economic systems, beliefs, and stereotypes never before challenged. Yet, often we don't understand the importance or impact of simply being present.

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DZone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

First of all, a quick definition of Remote Configuration: It is a way to customize the behaviour of a desired system based on certain parameters that are stored on a remote location.

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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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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. This would be a significant departure from its existing policy based system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

To help determine how customers can comply with DORA requirements, DORA’s articles can be classified in the following three categories: Definition : Describes terms and the scope of the act. Technical : Specifies technical requirements for ICT systems within an organization.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a recent FedScoop panel Brett Vaughn, Navy Chief AI Officer, and Willie Hicks, Federal CTO for Dynatrace discuss this up-and-coming technology including: Their definition of AI. With massive technological environments, such as Navy ships and submarines, system complexity is continually growing. How AI is used in the Navy.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Feature flag solutions currently use proprietary SDKs with frameworks, definitions, and data/event types that are unique to their platforms. The specification focuses primarily on feature flag evaluation in application code, leaving the definition and management of feature flags up to the feature flag management system.

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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

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.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is the definition of this model: ?. PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. 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

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Everyone has their own definition of true leadership. In some instances, these individuals stood their ground and continued forward in the face of violence, war, political and economic systems, beliefs, and stereotypes never before challenged. Yet, often we don't understand the importance or impact of simply being present.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. If your custom resource-definition targets the pod’s namespace, OneAgent will be injected before it starts. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. As of now, we still have several specialized internal systems serving their own use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

The system facilitates large volumes of camera and sound media and is built for speed. We knew we were going to shoot in different places, said Post Supervisor Gabriel Queiroz, to have all this material cloud-based, its definitely one of the most important things for us. It will take us a lot of time.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system. In the next step change, the UTM campaign parameter to also be a user action property by editing the definition as shown on the screenshot below.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. They allow data exchange and communication from one to another software system. Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces. What is API Test?

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Complex IT systems make it possible to buy your favorite pair of jeans online, pay your bills, or help you navigate. These systems produce an unimaginably huge amount of data. you can now ingest data more easily at scale and derive the topological context along with the topology definition. Dynatrace news.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. How do you make a system ‘observable’?

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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DZone

APRIL 25, 2025

In this post, I'd like to talk a little about scalability from a system design perspective. In the following paragraphs, I'll cover multiple concepts related to scalability from defining what it is, to the tools and approaches that help make the system more scalable, and finally, to the signs that show whether a system is scaling well or not.

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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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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. Genesis Data Source and Input definition example Genesis is a stateless CLI written in Node.js

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Integration with Red Hat Event-Driven-Ansible will also leverage Red Hat’s flexible rulebook system to map event data, such as problem categories or vulnerability identification, to the correct job template. Context-rich tickets can be created in systems like Jira or ServiceNow for traceability and compliance. Got any more questions?

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