The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the Amazon RDS Service Ready designation. Achieving this designation differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with a product that is integrated with Amazon RDS and is generally available and fully supported.

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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. Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With Dashboards , you can monitor business performance, user interactions, security vulnerabilities, IT infrastructure health, and so much more, all in real time. Even if infrastructure metrics aren’t your thing, you’re welcome to join us on this creative journey simply swap out the suggested metrics for ones that interest you.

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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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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Business events: Delivering the best data It’s been two years since we introduced business events , a special class of events designed to support even the most demanding business use cases. Our Business Analytics solution is a prominent beneficiary of this commitment. Business process monitoring and optimization.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

Dynatrace full stack observability for Red Hat OpenShift Dynatrace enhances software quality and operational efficiency, which drives innovation by unifying application, operation, and platform engineering teams on a single platform. Dynatrace is designed to scale easily across the entire Kubernetes stack.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. This comes as no surprise, as MySQL has held this position consistently for many years according to DB-Engines. Commercial Databases.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. Monitoring your i nfrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps. SNMP observability.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time. How does Dynatrace help?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

Architecture 244

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Serverless architecture offers several benefits for enterprises. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity. Let’s explore each in more detail.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is guest a post by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. NG SAST was initially designed only for vulnerabilities. The analogy is that it’s like changing the engine on an airplane in flight without the passengers noticing. Originally published here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The success of an organization often depends on the quality of the on-premises or physical IT infrastructure, among other things. Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Monitor Cisco and any other devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Membership Engineering at Netflix is responsible for the plan and pricing configurations for every market worldwide. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

In the Magic Quadrant report, Gartner defines APM as, “software that enables the observation of application behavior and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle.” Extend our best-in-class observability with unparalleled AIOps and automation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. Microsoft designed the kernel and other aspects of the OS with an emphasis on security due to its focused role in executing container workloads. This design approach helps eliminate the need to patch and maintain essential packages.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Build an umbrella for Development and Operations In modern software engineering, the discipline of platform engineering delivers DevSecOps practices to developers to bridge the gaps between development, security, and operations and enhance the developer experience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Key insights from this shiftinclude: A Data-Centric Approach : Shifting focus from model-centric strategies, which heavily rely on feature engineering, to a data-centric one. This approach prioritizes the accumulation of large-scale, high-quality data and, where feasible, aims for end-to-end learning.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

But as IT teams increasingly design and manage cloud-native technologies, the tasks IT pros need to accomplish are equally variable and complex. The framework forms the basis of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) automation levels 1 through 5 for cars. The sense-think-act model for AIOps and observability. Act’ with AIOps.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. Amber is a suite of multiple infrastructure components that offers triggering capabilities to initiate the computation of algorithms with recursive dependency resolution.

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