High Scalability

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Design a video streaming platform similar to Netflix where content creators can upload their video content and viewers are able to play video on different devices. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Problem Statement.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. Platform engineers design and implement these platforms, as well as ensure their security, scalability, and reliability.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The time has come to move beyond outdated practices and adopt solutions designed for the realities of Kubernetes environments. This empowers teams to efficiently deliver secure, compliant Kubernetes applications by design. Ready to see the full potential of Dynatrace KSPM for your workloads?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) also face significant challenges in maintaining database reliability, ensuring performance, and preventing disruptions in highly dynamic and distributed environments. Metis has built an AI-driven database observability platform designed for developers and SREs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. This designation can also save time in evaluating Dynatrace solutions for organizations that are not already using them.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing enables software engineers to model their applications’ business logic as high-level representations in a directed acyclic graph without explicitly defining a physical execution plan. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. Recovery time of the latency p90.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At Dynatrace, we understand your challenges when dealing with external packageswhether you’re hustling with reverse engineering, automatically fetching open source code, or playing the guessing game. Source code is loaded only on an engineers workstation, using the engineers privileges.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

But because of the complexity involved in executing and analyzing test results of dynamic systems, performance engineering is difficult to scale — especially with lean staff or resources. Grabner also introduced four ways organizations can turbocharge their performance engineering with automation. Automating root cause analysis.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Planned effort Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) effort and time allocation planning typically fall into two domains: Operations Management (50%) Operations Management includes on-call responsibilities, post-mortem assessments, addressing other interruptions, and buffer time. These practices are commonly known as “ chaos engineering. ”

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. To get a better idea of OpenTelemetry trends in 2025 and how to get the most out of it in your observability strategy, some of our Dynatrace open-source engineers and advocates picked out the innovations they find most interesting.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

From developers leveraging platform engineering tools to optimize application performance, to Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) ensuring resilience, and executives gaining critical business insights, observability increases the velocity of innovation across every level of an organization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Challenge: Dont understand the cascading effects of their setup on these perceived black box personalization systems - Personalization System Engineers Role: Develop and operate the personalization systems. Up next In the next iteration we will talk about how to design an observability endpoint that works for all personalization systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? The solution we use within the Netflix Studio Engineering is protobuf FieldMask. This blog post covered how and why it is used at Netflix Studio Engineering for APIs that read the data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba Over the past few years Content Engineering at Netflix has been transitioning many of its services to use a federated GraphQL platform. The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Davis AI engine automatically and continuously delivers actionable insights based on an environment’s current state. The solution also allows customers to combine alerts from best-in-class security solutions. Equipped with information about these vulnerabilities, organizations can take steps to reduce their future risk.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ricky Gardiner , Alex Borysov Background In our previous post , we discussed how we utilize FieldMask as a solution when designing our APIs so that consumers can request the data they need when fetched via gRPC. API designers should aim for simplicity, but make their APIs open for extension and evolution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

This standardization enhances adoption within the personalization stack, simplifies the system, and improves understanding and debuggability for engineers. They must also provide enough information for partner engineers to identify the problem with the underlying service in cases of system-level issues.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Although Dynatrace has its headquarters in Massachusetts and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE:DT ), the epicenter of product design and creation is in Linz, Austria, where the company was founded in 2005. The company also introduced its proprietary Davis® AI engine.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Building the dream package Observability for Developers, the newly introduced offering from Dynatrace, is designed to cater to developers’ specific needs and challenges. It packages the existing Dynatrace capabilities needed by developers in their day-to-day worksuch as logs, distributed traces, profiling data, exceptions, and more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

We would like to extend our thanks to the following teams for their crucial roles in thislaunch: The various Client and Partner Engineering teams at Netflix that manage the Netflix experience across different device platforms. In addition to HDR10+, we continue to serve HDR10 and DolbyVision.

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ready-made dashboards and notebooks address this concern by offering pre-configured data visualizations and filters designed for common scenarios like troubleshooting and optimization. These ready-made dashboards offer your platform engineers, who oversee Kubernetes environments, immediate and comprehensive data visibility.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2025

They offer a comprehensive end-to-end solution to these challenges, providing functionalities designed to enhance compliance and resilience in IT environments. This enables DevOps platform engineers to make the right release decisions for new versions and empowers SREs to apply Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for their critical services.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Following are some of the coolest things weve seen engineers do with Live Debugger. With Live Debugger, you can see the precise inputs called your by code in production so you can design your tests accordingly. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily. Below are a couple of examples.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we talk about conversational AI, were referring to systems designed to have a conversation, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions in real time. By predefined, tested workflows, we mean creating workflows during the design phase, using AI to assist with ideas and patterns. What Does Structured Automation Look Like in Practice?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. Subsequent versions of the model will result from experimenting with hyper parameters, tweaking feature engineering, or conducting feature diets. demo.branch_demox.demo_features_f workflows/demo.main.sch.yaml (binding=default): cluster=sandbox, workflow.id=demo.branch_demox.main

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The appeal of building a system that's inherently designed to grow and adapt as the startup evolves is undeniable.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. Interviews can range from standard software engineer coding questions to questions on system design, Linux debugging, and DevOps tools.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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