DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building a strong messaging system is critical in the world of distributed systems for seamless communication between multiple components. A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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DZone

AUGUST 27, 2024

This was manifested in systems designs as well where we pushed these biases when designing systems. If you look closely there are two broad categories of failures:

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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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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That means it's important that software systems are dependable, robust, and resilient. Resilient systems can withstand failures or errors without completely crashing. It lets systems keep working properly even when problems occur. We'll also discuss core principles and strategies for building fault-tolerant systems.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2024

In the vast realm of software development, there's a pursuit for software systems that are not only robust and efficient but can also "heal" themselves. Self-healing software systems represent a significant stride towards automation and resilience. 4 Key Strategies for Building Self-Healing Software Systems 1.

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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. As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. The platform helps companies manage corporate spending using automation, card (physical and virtual), and integrations with expense management systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as Netsuite, Concur, Zucchetti, and so on. “We

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation.

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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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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot's default codes and annotation setup lessen the time it takes to design an application.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Embedded systems have become an integral part of our daily lives, from smartphones and home appliances to medical devices and industrial machinery. These systems are designed to perform specific tasks efficiently, often in real-time, without the complexities of a general-purpose computer.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Successfully coordinating messages among these services is a fundamental aspect of their design. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. 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. Easy to access.

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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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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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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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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. Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

S3 buckets are configured to be encrypted with a bucket key stored in the AWS key management system (KMS). The Dynatrace SDL includes penetration testing, red teaming, continuous threat modeling and risk assessments, a public bug bounty program, and vulnerability scans. Each S3 bucket is assigned its own unique bucket key.

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DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

It involves a combination of techniques and best practices aimed at reducing latency, improving user experience, and increasing the overall efficiency of the system. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This rising risk amplifies the need for reliable security solutions that integrate with existing systems. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, the risk—and consequences—of cyberattacks are also increasing. Equipped with information about these vulnerabilities, organizations can take steps to reduce their future risk.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

As a developer, I designed, developed, and maintained various features for the desktop and mobile web versions of a social network across backend, frontend, and mobile application APIs. I want to touch upon the following aspects:

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This article will explore the concept of multi-layered caching from both architectural and development perspectives, focusing on real-world applications like Instagram, and provide insights into designing and implementing an efficient multi-layered cache system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source code isolation : Live Debugger integrates with source control management systems to display the correct source code revision and provide a seamless debugging experience. Designed from the ground up, this process aims to protect source code security and follow vendor best practices provided by relevant vendors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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DZone

APRIL 8, 2025

Scheduling is crucial in computer system design. The right policy can significantly reduce mean response time without needing faster machines, effectively improving performance for free. uses the Contention-Aware Transaction Scheduling (CATS) algorithm to prioritize transactions waiting for locks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model. Ideally, we would have causal estimates from an A/B test to use for validation, but since that is not available, we use another causal inference design as one of our ensemble of validation approaches.

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