The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Standardization To standardize communication between our observability service and the personalization stacks observability endpoints, weve developed a stable proto request/response format. A service with modular business logic facilitates the seamless addition of an observability endpoint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. The transition to the new federated architecture meant that many of our backend teams needed to adopt GraphQL in our Java ecosystem.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Each must be evaluated by development teams, leading to wasted time and effort in identifying real vulnerabilities. For example, a developer or tester can come up with a test for all problematic cases they can imagine. Code-level vulnerability detection for Java is available with Dynatrace version 1.260 and OneAgent version 1.259.

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DZone

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With cloud computing, several solutions were born to make the developer's life easier and simpler to develop. With that, the question arises: How will Java deal with solutions like NodeJS? Helidon was designed to be simple and fast and comprises two versions: Helidon SE and Helidon MP.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Enabling keyboard shortcuts and possessing visual appeal and transparency to minimize strain on wrists and eyesight to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and visual impairment from developing in users. To conclude, GUIs are a vital addition to ease the lives of database users and developers. Easy to use and highly customizable.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

They can develop software applications rapidly and gain access to extensible cloud resources without having to sink costs into IT plumbing or managing this infrastructure themselves. This approach, however, requires more extensive collaboration between developers, security teams and IT operations teams. DevSecOps: Security by design.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. In essence, Java is classified as an object oriented programming language.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Kafka is an open-source stream ing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. That is why it is a great opportunity to know what approach to choose for performance test design for this system component. Conclusion. Several Words About Apache Kafka.

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Highly Scalable

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Java was initially designed as a safe, managed environment. Nevertheless, Java HotSpot VM contains a “backdoor” that provides a number of low-level operations to manipulate memory and threads directly. The sun.misc.Unsafe class is so unsafe that JDK developers added special checks to restrict access to it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our team spent a lot of time addressing dissenting points and making adjustments to the architecture based on feedback from developers. Through our prototype development and proactive partnership with some key critical voices, we were able to instill confidence and close crucial gaps.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

These serverless functions allow developers to focus on their business logic. This additional insight enables you to design strategies for handling the effects of cold starts, like warming up your functions or configuring provisioned concurrency for your functions. Improved mapping and topology detection. So please stay tuned!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Vulnerability management during development. The software development lifecycle should include vulnerability management throughout all stages. During development, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open source code or make an error in application logic.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 25, 2015

Today, Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) , a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for developers to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. For most developers, the Lambda free tier is sufficient for the function supporting an Alexa skill.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

are technologically very different, Python and JMX extensions designed for Extension Framework 1.0 focused on technology coverage, building on the flexibility of JMX for Java and Python-based coded extensions for everything else. are technologically very different; Python and JMX extensions designed for the Extension Framework 1.0

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news. The problem with the traditional approach.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Many application security products were designed before the rise of DevSecOps, containers, Kubernetes, and multicloud environments and so can’t keep up with rapid changes in these environments.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It's designed to be easy and low-overhead , just like a CPU profiler. A daily tool for developers, with most of the visualization in the language of the developer : source code functions. Now that our small team has shown that this is possible, we'll be joined by other teams at Intel to develop this further.

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it. Over 90% of Java applications have migrated to PSC with minimal changes. Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

This approach empowers developers to define and automatically deploy the necessary infrastructure components to support applications as they build them, increasing agility. That’s why developers need to work closely with centralized operations teams to ensure they incorporate observability throughout development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. Java…Script? It was a Node.js

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Moreover, in addition to managing cloud spend and resource utilization, organizations must also now consider the cost and carbon impact of developing and using generative AI models. However, security remains a concern despite benefits such as faster development and improved productivity. What is DevSecOps?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This feature support required a significant update in the data table design (which includes new tables and updating existing table columns). Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences. It also means that understanding the business model is a pre-requisite for designing a software architecture.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Carol Willing , a member of the Python Steering Council and a core developer of CPython, also celebrates these projects—like the Binder service, which promotes reproducible research by creating an executable environment from your Jupyter Notebooks—particularly as they expand beyond their initial aims. .” ” Java.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Unlike Java, we support multiple inheritance as well. Average search latency Semantic search latency Scaling One of the key challenges while designing the annotation service is to handle the scaling requirements with the growing Netflix movie catalog and ML algorithms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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DZone

MAY 16, 2024

smart-doc is a tool for automatically generating Java API documentation. The design goal of smart-doc is to simplify the document writing process, improve development efficiency, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the documentation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After perusing the current landscape of workflow orchestrators, we decided to develop a next generation system that can scale horizontally to spread the jobs across the cluster consisting of 100’s of nodes. Users can write the code in Java syntax as the parameter definition. Here is an example workflow defined by different DSLs.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Since then, we’ve maintained ongoing partnerships with customers, ensuring their Citrix observability requirements are met while keeping up with the latest AIOps (AI for IT Operations) developments. Listen, learn, improve, and repeat The latest update to the Citrix monitoring extension is now available.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cryostat, a container-native JVM application developed by Red Hat, provides an API for monitoring and profiling Java containers using Java Flight Recorder (JFR). Cryostat brings JFR to container age allowing analysis and profiling of multiple JVMs directly from a central hub. By Andrea Messetti.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. With traditional APM you gathered metrics, logs, or even some transactional data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

DevOps and SRE: Methodologies that are transforming software development with the help of DevOps observability. DevOps is a software delivery methodology that comprises flexible practices and processes to create and deliver applications and services, ultimately closing the gap between software development and IT operations.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully.

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