Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

The business process observability challenge Increasingly dynamic business conditions demand business agility; reacting to a supply chain disruption and optimizing order fulfillment are simple but illustrative examples. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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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. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Every software developer has faced the frustration of debugging. A production bug is the worst; besides impacting customer experience, you need special access privileges, making the process far more time-consuming. This cumbersome process should not be the norm.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform. Real-time customer experience remediation identifies and informs the organization about any issues and prevents them in the experience process sooner.

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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 28, 2023

Banks are facing challenges to make profits in today’s environment where technology development costs and interest rates are rising. One way to do this is by changing from proprietary tools-driven software development to open-source technology and automation, which eliminates licensing fees.

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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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Log analytics, on the other hand, is the process of using the gathered logs to extract business or operational insight.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Protect data in multi-tenant architectures To bring you the most value by unifying observability and security in one analytics and automation platform powered by AI, Dynatrace SaaS leverages a multitenancy architecture, enabling efficient and scalable data ingestion, querying, and processing on shared infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

We recently announced Dynatrace Live Debugger , which gives developers unprecedented access to real-time data and runtime behavior insights. This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance.

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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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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

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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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. For example: Infrastructure services might provide data about request timings that can give you a precise overview of system health, but the data is logged in a custom format.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This process involves: Identifying Stakeholders: Determine who is impacted by the issue and whose input is crucial for a successful resolution. In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. And how did we arrive at thispoint?

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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

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

Retaining multiple tools generates huge volumes of alerts for analysis and action, slowing down the remediation and risk mitigation processes. In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial. It refocuses resources on high-value tasks rather than managing legacy tools.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Applications must migrate to the new mechanism, as using the deprecated file upload mechanism leaves systems vulnerable. This blog post dissects the vulnerability, explains how Struts processes file uploads, details the exploit mechanics, and outlines mitigation strategies. Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users. Step-by-step setup The log ingestion wizard guides you through the prerequisites and provides ready-to-use command examples to start the installation process. Figure 5.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Enhanced observability and release validation Dynatrace already excels at delivering full-stack, end-to-end observability of your systems and user journeys. By integrating Dynatrace with GitHub Actions, you can proactively monitor for potential issues or slowdowns in the deployment processes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Whether you’re troubleshooting a specific issue or looking to improve overall system performance, Distributed tracing equips you with the tools you need to make informed decisions and maintain a high standard of application performance. To understand the benefits of the Distributed Tracing app, let’s take a look at a typical scenario.

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DZone

AUGUST 15, 2023

iOS development has long been associated with Apple's ecosystem and Xcode, which is only available for macOS. However, with the growing popularity of iOS apps, developers using Linux have sought ways to perform iOS development on their preferred operating system. Some of the popular cross-platform tools are:

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

For instance, Dynatrace has developed the Cost and Carbon Optimization app, a tool designed to measure, understand, and act on the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated by hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. For example, reporting jobs can process monthly data without running exactly at the end of the month.

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DZone

MARCH 6, 2025

Efficient query caching is a critical part of application performance in data-intensive systems. However, earlier implementations lacked flexibility, and developers had limited control over cache invalidation and customization. improve the process. Hibernate 6.3.0, Hibernate 6.3.0,

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. However, due to the fact that they boil down selected indicators to single values and track error budget levels, they also offer a suitable way to monitor optimization processes while aligning on single values to meet overall goals.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

P95 Response time over Time: A time series of how each service’s response time develops. In addition to service-level monitoring, certain services within the OpenTelemetry demo application expose process-level metrics, such as CPU and memory consumption, number of threads, or heap size for services written in different languages.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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