The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model. Need to catch up?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is Apache Kafka?

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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. Kickstarting the dashboard creation process is, however, just one advantage of ready-made dashboards.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s an underlying web application architecture that makes this process possible. In this blog, you’ll discover what a web app architecture is, how a web application architecture diagram looks, and how you can design the right architecture for web apps. Moreover, it also ensures that valid data is present in all user requests.

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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. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. 2021-09-10T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. With the help of security experts, we have designed and developed heuristic functions in order to discover a wide range of suspicious behaviors.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

However, because organizations typically use multiple mobile monitoring tools, this process is often far more difficult than it should be. Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. Organizations must ensure strict compliance without creating too many burdensome manual processes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. This is especially true when the goal is to present information to non-technical users, but all technical teams can benefit from aligning raw metrics with higher-level KPIs and SLOs. Presentation matters.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. you can define arbitrary parsers using a string means the parser doesnt even have to be present remotely! You can see the actual command and args that were sub-processed in the Metaboost Execution section below.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. I believe concept testing is a pivotal part of the up-front UX process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We’ll further learn how Omnilogy developed a custom Pipeline Observability Solution on top of Dynatrace and gain insights into their thought process throughout the journey. This lack of comprehensive visibility into the performance of CI/CD pipelines poses a significant challenge, as they’re vital to the software delivery process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously not all tools are made with the same use case in mind, so we are planning to add more code samples for other (than classical batch ETL) data processing purposes, e.g. Machine Learning model building and scoring. It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. mp4, clip1.mp4,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Traditional application security measures are not living up to the challenges presented by dynamic and complex cloud-native architectures and rapid software release cycles. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. Why application security measures are failing. Security is a shared responsibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We also need to source multiple images for each title representing different themes so we can present an image that is relevant to each member’s taste. The artwork generated by this pipeline is used to augment the artwork typically sourced from design agencies. The whole process can be divided into two parts Generation Review 1.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. I found the printmaking process incredibly satisfying. It’s an independently published magazine which “hones in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.” The result is a design which feels connected.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. 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.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your companys AI assistant confidently tells a customer its processed their urgent withdrawal requestexcept it hasnt, because it misinterpreted the API documentation. When we talk about conversational AI, were referring to systems designed to have a conversation, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions in real time.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These dynamics orchestrate a multifaceted overhaul of the business terrain, including processes and operations, and require teams to explore new approaches. Thriving in the digital era requires a unified approach to observability, security, and business data analytics built on AI, analytics, and automation capabilities.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

To ensure consistent progress in app development, it’s crucial to stay updated and integrate these innovations into your development process. In order to make informed decisions, business owners, UX designers, and developers require data—specifically, they rely on insights from their data on a large scale, ideally in a single location.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

“It was an iterative process allowing us to reflect on the past, present, and future of Dynatrace, discuss our findings, and explore the results received in the employee experience discovery.” ” Dynatrace CEO, Rick McConnell Now, our refreshed Dynatrace Core Values are established. .” Stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We can connect the root cause to the process owner.” The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways. “Dynatrace will tell you that something is wrong and what is wrong. “Then, we can ask Dynatrace if an app is adhering to development pillars.

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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. High-level Process Sections Conceptually, there are three major sections to a modernisation process. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2023

Application resilience made easy To meet that need, the Dynatrace Health View is designed to help customers observe the overall application health while still retaining a basic view of app interconnectivity within the organization. “So, progressive disclosure is something we have adhered to very strongly here.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

Though, it’s typically impossible to remediate all known security vulnerabilities so enterprises need a better solution for identifying those detected security vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk. Out of the box, Davis Security Advisor pinpoints the open-source components that present the greatest threat.

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DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern in the design and operation of distributed systems due to the increasing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly computing solutions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Enhanced business operations.

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