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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We’re excited to announce several log management innovations, including native support for Syslog messages, seamless integration with AWS Firehose, an agentless approach using Kubernetes Platform Monitoring solution with Fluent Bit, a new out-of-the-box ingest dashboard, and OpenPipeline ingest improvements.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With the launch of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, in November 2022, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have become a global sensation, making their way to the top of boardroom agendas and household discussions worldwide. GPTs can also help quickly onboard team members to new development platforms and toolsets.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Observability is no longer just for IT Ops Observability is no longer just about monitoring IT systems. Today, observability is integral to the entire software development lifecycle. Its not just for IT Ops but a critical capability for platform engineering, SREs, developers, as well as business and IT executives.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Meanwhile, cost reduction programs affect budgets, constrain technology investment, and inhibit innovation. In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial.

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Dynatrace platform is a key part of our strategy where teams across the whole organization are leveraging Dynatrace® for end-to-end visibility across our entire technology stack and automating across our software development lifecycle (SDLC). Build a foundation that scales. Faster time to value. Accelerated digital transformation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

With constraints on IT resources, downtime shifts staff away from innovation and other strategic work. This means that our development teams are spending less time fixing defects and more time writing new code. It helps our DevOps team respond and resolve systems’ problems faster,” Smith said.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Software should forward innovation and drive better business outcomes. But legacy, custom software can often prevent systems from working together, ultimately hindering growth. Conversely, an open platform can promote interoperability and innovation. Data supports this need for organizations to flex and modernize.

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Dynatrace

JULY 12, 2022

Accordingly, for organizations developing and managing applications in the cloud, AIOps (AI for IT operations) has become a key tool to understand application performance problems, cybersecurity threats, and more. IT automation speeds code development. This allows us to manipulate our environment,” he says.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

The industry has always innovated, and over the last decade, it started moving towards cloud-based workflows. However, unlocking cloud innovation and all its benefits on a global scale has proven to be difficult. Different countries worldwide are at different phases of innovation based on local needs and nuances.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shifting to customer-centric IT For observability data to be meaningful, it must connect the performance of IT systems to customer experience throughout their journey, across both digital and physical touchpoints. That result can be automatically documented and passed to the development team, providing them with full context of the problem.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

Developers feel more responsibility for Ops success, too. The survey had eight questions related to current team effectiveness and system stability. Learning #1: To a large extent, development teams still rely heavily on Operations engineers. Dev-to-Ops ratio of 15:1 or higher. About 5% of respondents.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

According to recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), generative AI will change software development activities, from quality assurance to debugging to CI/CD pipeline configuration. On the whole, survey respondents view AI as a way to accelerate software development and to improve software quality.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Every software development team grappling with Generative AI (GenAI) and LLM-based applications knows the challenge: how to observe, monitor, and secure production-level workloads at scale. How can you gain insights that drive innovation and reliability in AI initiatives without breaking the bank?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

The Dynatrace platform now enables comprehensive data exploration and interactive analytics across data sets (trace, logs, events, and metrics)empowering you to solve complex use cases, handle any observability scenario, and gain unprecedented visibility into your systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2025

The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) created the ISM framework to provide practical guidance and principles to protect organizations IT and operational technology systems, applications, and data from cyber threats. Deliver high-quality, cloud-native applications to accelerate innovation. group of companies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

To facilitate easier access to incrementality results, we have developed an interactive tool powered by this framework. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model. This makes it difficult to measure the impact of different game launches on acquisition.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

SRE is becoming an essential discipline in organizations that use DevOps (the combination of development and operations) and agile methodologies. In order to unleash the innovation organizations need to evolve their SRE approaches. SRE adoption is growing, yet gaps remain. MTTR reduction remains top of the list for SREs.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

Kubernetes traces its roots back to Google’s internal Borg and Omega cluster management systems from the early 2000s. “Kubernetes has become almost like this operating system of applications, where companies build their platform engineering initiatives on top.” Read the full article in The Register.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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 We’re born in the cloud, we’re a cloud-native company.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. Dynatrace news. This is fueling key DevSecOps trends in 2022. and 2.14.1.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Takeaways from this article on DevOps practices: DevOps practices bring developers and operations teams together and enable more agile IT. Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

In today’s digital-first world, data resides across dozens of different IT systems, from critical business applications to the modern cloud platforms that underpin them. The final stage is developing true business observability. Agility and innovation. This problem has worsened as enterprise operational complexity has grown.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2024

These criteria include operational excellence, security and data privacy, speed to market, and disruptive innovation. Ally’s goal was to reduce the number of monitoring tools it was using and its annual spend while gaining better, more actionable—and more automatable—insights into systems that affect customer experiences.

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of digital product development, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have emerged as indispensable tools that not only connect systems but also play a pivotal role in shaping product roadmaps.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Whilst our traditional Dynatrace website predominantly showcases Dynatrace content and product information for visitors, the idea behind the creation of our new Engineering website – engineering.dynatrace.com – was to set up a space to feature the results of our research and innovation efforts and aims to be a site made by engineers for engineers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on vulnerability management for cloud application security: Today’s cloud apps with their fast innovation cycles and frequent use of open-source libraries must address a gap for runtime vulnerability management in production environments. Contextual insight.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

A truly modern AIOps solution also serves the entire software development lifecycle to address the volume, velocity, and complexity of multicloud environments. Increased business innovation. If IT teams spend the bulk of their time responding to alerts and dealing with false positives, there’s little time for innovation.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This year, they’ve been asked to do more with less, innovate faster, and tame the ever-increasing complexities of modern cloud environments. 2: AI-generated code will create the need for digital immune systems. And industry watchers have begun to make their technology predictions for 2024. Technology prediction No.

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