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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this final part, we detailed the sophisticated system strategies and architecture, including observability endpoints, proactive monitoring, and Time Travel capabilities; all designed to ensure a thrilling viewing experience.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. From the Kafka Streams community, one of the configurations mostly tuned in production is adding standby replicas.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers? Stay tuned for a closer look at the innovation behind thescenes! Yet, these pages couldnt be more different. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this series, where we’ll explore how to harness AI to elevate your dashboard to the next level. Add a section title You can now add additional subtitles or provide written guidance to new users on how to use and understand the dashboard. Add structure to your dashboard to make it easier to use.

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DZone

MAY 23, 2019

How do you tune the Snowflake data warehouse when there are no indexes, and few options available to tune the database itself? Snowflake was designed for simplicity, with few performance tuning options. This article summarizes the top five best practices to maximize query performance.

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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

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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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

The whole experience is designed to fit into your individual data governance and compliance framework. With this three-layer design, you enjoy maximum flexibility in managing sensitive data points end-to-end. To fine-tune your masking settings, select the entity you want to adjust and leverage the entity-specific settings.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It's designed to be easy and low-overhead , just like a CPU profiler. I know of companies where flame graphs are a daily tool that developers use to understand and tune their code, reducing compute costs. The towers are getting smaller as optimizations are added. This will become a daily tool for AI developers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace. This step lets you fine-tune your query to identify all matching data points, ensuring a thorough and accurate retrieval process. When creating an export request, an authorized user specifies the end user’s details.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Each has its own role to play in successfully implementing this tactical trifecta at scale.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

Runtime application self-protection is a security design pattern for embedding web application protection directly into an application or application runtime environment. An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. What is RASP?

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This additional insight enables you to design strategies for handling the effects of cold starts, like warming up your functions or configuring provisioned concurrency for your functions. So please stay tuned! For each individual invocation, the Dynatrace Lambda extension automatically detects when a function is cold started.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Some applications perform better by tuning a parameter and some don’t. Conclusion.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The architecture of RabbitMQ is meticulously designed for complex message routing, enabling dynamic and flexible interactions between producers and consumers. Configuring Quorum Queues Quorum queues in RabbitMQ are designed to maintain functionality as long as most replicas are operational.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns. As the design of RENO evolved, support for new use cases became possible and RENO was quickly positioned as the centralized rapid notification service for all product areas at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Davis Assistant alert notifications are designed to be dynamically updated as a problem evolves, enabling the full context of problem details to appear in a single card in a Teams channel. Learn more about setting up the integration. What’s next??

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Andrew Clarke.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

The endpoint is designed in a RESTful way, so the typical resource layout with all CRUD functionality is available. Please stay tuned for more, and, as always, we want to hear from you about what’s working and what’s not working for you. How to get started. When creating a new environment, you can use either the POST or PUT operations.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Kubernetes resource adoption —Act on external, holistic, and customer-centric behavior observations—rather than on only internal parameters—and automatically roll out Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to designated environments. Check out further information in our SLO documentation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2024

But if risk is high, then authorization is allowed only after those seeking access have earned a designated level of needed trust. “At Tune in to the full episode for more insights from JR Williamson, senior vice president and CISO at Leidos. At the end of the day, you don’t just provide ubiquitous access to things,” Williamson said.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. At the same time, we kept the design open enough to allow future extensibility. Incredible!”

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. The basic unit of SQL tuning is the query. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results. Sort By Column.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Fast feedback cycles on model improvements While the Site Reliability Guardian was originally designed to validate new software releases, Dynatrace has internally extended its application area to include validation of models for Davis AI.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As with all Dynatrace features, Session Replay for crashes in iOS was designed with data privacy in mind. The masking API we provide allows you to fine-tune the masking configuration to your needs. Of course, we’re working to support Session replay for Android app crash analysis too, so stay tuned for updates!

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases.

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

Here is what a few of these customers say about Dynatrace: “ Dynatrace has been a game changer in our ability to respond to incidents, identify areas for performance tuning, and gain meaningful data from user behavior analysis.” In these two reports, Dynatrace is the only provider to be recognized as a Leader and as a Customers’ Choice.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are no thresholds to manage for cost events; cost monitors are designed to ensure that all meaningful increases are caught and notified without generating false alerts. What’s next Dynatrace will continue to monitor and fine-tune the cost-event detection algorithms used by cost monitors to ensure that notifications are accurate.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Consideration for backing up your Report Designer files such as; rdl,rds,dv,ds, rptproj, and.sln files should be given. Tuning Options. General Tuning.

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