The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. Since not all projects are terabytes projects, allocating the largest cloud storage to all packager instances is not an efficient use of cloud resources.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Business processes support virtually all aspects of an organizations operations. Theyre often categorized by their function; core processes directly create customer value, support processes increase departmental efficiency, and management processes drive strategic goals and compliance.

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Processing Analytics Infrastructure Monitoring 147

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2023

As organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud, robust monitoring and management tools are paramount to ensure optimal performance, security, and efficiency. AMA is a lightweight yet potent agent that plays a crucial role in collecting and transmitting telemetry data from various resources within the Azure ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. What is Azure Linux?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dynatrace unified observability and security is critical to not only keeping systems high performing and risk-free, but also to accelerating customer migration, adoption, and efficient usage of their cloud of choice. Register now to attend in person (or virtually). We’ll see you in Las Vegas and follow you to the cloud!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

AI can help automate tasks, improve efficiency, and identify potential problems before they occur. Data, AI, analytics, and automation are key enablers for efficient IT operations Data is the foundation for AI and IT automation. IT automation also helps improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These developments open up new use cases, allowing Dynatrace customers to harness even more data for comprehensive AI-driven insights, faster troubleshooting, and improved operational efficiency. Customers have had a positive response to our native syslog implementation, noting its easy setup and efficiency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

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. So, why is all this important?

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Open Source Cloud Games Java 242

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. After all, it’s key to sample and store traces efficiently while not missing out on important events. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. Dynatrace news. We second that.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture. Experienced developers see microservice design patterns as more platform-agnostic.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. Streamlining the CI/CD process to ensure optimal efficiency. This improves the current project and paves the way for future innovation.

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Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further. Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. What is explainable AI?

Performance 246

Performance DevOps Innovation Energy 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Organizations adopt DevOps, where developers and operations work together in a continuous loop, so they can develop software and resolve issues efficiently before they affect users. He meant that more and more developers are now becoming responsible for operations, and operations are becoming ingrained in developers’ job descriptions.

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DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. The healthcare industry is embracing cloud technology to improve the efficiency, quality, and security of patient care, and this year’s HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla.,

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Our virtual 2021 We continue to have the same priorities and the same schedule we originally adopted for C++23. However, since the pandemic began, WG21 and its subgroups have had to meet all-virtually via Zoom, and we are not going to try to have a face-to-face meeting in 2021 (see What’s Next below).

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Consider using lightweight Linux distributions that are specifically designed for hosting containers, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host or CoreOS.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Virtually any application with a user interface can benefit from regular real user monitoring. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. Examples of real user monitoring. There are also some limitations of real user monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first was voice control, where you can play a title or search using your virtual assistant with a voice command like “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix.” (See With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins. It served Pushy’s needs well for many years.

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InfoQ

APRIL 7, 2021

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. By Steef-Jan Wiggers.

Virtualization 57

Virtualization Google Availability Engineering 57

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. joins) during query processing.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Scalegrid

JUNE 28, 2024

It offers benefits like increased reliability, efficient resource utilization, decoupling of components, and support for multiple programming languages. RabbitMQ allows consumer programs to wait and receive messages from producers, ensuring efficient message delivery and processing.

IoT 130

IoT Healthcare Programming Open Source 130

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. After all, it’s key to sample and store traces efficiently while not missing out on important events. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. Dynatrace news. We second that.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

VoltDB

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By conducting routine tasks on machinery and infrastructure, organizations can avoid costly breakdowns and maintain operational efficiency. You could play with it until you felt like building something else and turning the current models into interior design pieces. The beauty of Legos was (is) the “one and done” aspect of it.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. Except to see such ambient design elements increase in popularity.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right. For some time now, support for encryption has been integrated at the design phase of each new service.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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