The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Thinking about going multi-cloud?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. Let’s explore each of these elements and what organizations can do to avoid them.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. What is Hybrid Cloud?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This year’s AWS re:Invent will showcase a suite of new AWS and Dynatrace integrations designed to enhance cloud performance, security, and automation. This integration simplifies the process of embedding Dynatrace full-stack observability directly into custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. It automatically discovers and monitors each host’s applications, services, processes, and infrastructure components.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Enterprise cloud security is vital due to increased cloud adoption and the significant financial and reputational risks associated with security breaches; a multilayered security strategy that includes encryption, access management, and compliance is essential.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. Those over their limit get the alternate allocation strategy.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, incorporating AI innovation into business strategies is vital, enabling organizations to optimize operations, enhance decision-making processes, and stay competitive. The annual Google Cloud Next conference explores the latest innovations for cloud technology and Google Cloud.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate key IT operations processes, including anomaly detection and identification, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. To achieve these AIOps benefits, comprehensive AIOps tools incorporate four key stages of data processing: Collection. What is AIOps, and how does it work?

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 What happens when we adjust our compression strategy? The former makes for a simpler build step, but is it faster?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. As it turns out, we do so just to avoid any disruptions or interruptions of the ongoing process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case. This feature support required a significant update in the data table design (which includes new tables and updating existing table columns). N, first N rows are fetched from the table.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Transaction testing Transaction testing sees robot clients attempting to complete specific tasks, such as logging into accounts, filling in an on-site form, or completing the checkout process.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. The company made these changes to support its ONETractor strategy, which seeks to deliver personalized, convenient shopping experiences anytime, anywhere.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. FinOps is a cloud financial management philosophy and practice that strives to control the cost of cloud adoption strategies without restricting the scope of cloud resources. Create optimization strategies with realistic goals for each team.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is not a specific process, but rather a general collection of flexible software creation and delivery practices that looks to close the gap between software development and IT operations. DevOps as a philosophy.

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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. It’s got a selection of free tools you can use for defining your technology strategy, shaping your architectural boundaries, and organising your teams. What’s the business vision?

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This intricate allocation strategy can be categorized into two main domains. 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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, with a generative AI solution and strategy underpinning your AWS cloud, not only can organizations automate daily operations based on high-fidelity insights pulled into context from a multitude of cloud data sources, but they can also leverage proactive recommendations to further accelerate their AWS usage and adoption.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Therefore, the team integrated the Dynatrace observability platform into numerous aspects of its software development process to ensure the new code could meet their standards and be performant during the pandemic—when the application saw its highest traffic on record. At times, this process extended into weeks and months.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Therefore, these organizations need an in-depth strategy for handling data that AI models ingest, so teams can build AI platforms with security in mind. Organizations building out their cloud security strategy must prioritize an end-to-end view of their cloud, applications, microservices, and more to keep their data secure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

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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. To ensure resilience, ITOps teams simulate disasters and implement strategies to mitigate downtime and reduce financial loss. So, what is ITOps?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. Indeed, the pressure to digitally transform is increasing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

A key takeaway from this talk is how important it is to be aware of the different sampling strategies and know which one makes sense for your application in a particular overload situation. After all, we solved this problem years ago and are handling sampling strategies transparently for our customers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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