The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You have set up a DevOps practice. As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

“As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. ” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example. .” What is infrastructure as code? What challenges does IAC solve?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams aim to deliver software faster and with higher quality. We refer to this culture and practice as observability-driven DevOps and SRE automation. The role of observability within DevOps. The results of observability-driven DevOps speak for themselves.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

DevOps seeks to accomplish smooth and efficient software creation, delivery, monitoring, and improvement by prioritizing agility and adaptability over rigid, stage-by-stage development. What is DevOps? As DevOps pioneer Patrick Debois first described it in 2009, DevOps is not a specific technology, but a tactical approach.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Organizations are increasingly adopting DevOps to stay competitive, innovate faster, and meet customer needs. By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. Thankfully, DevOps orchestration has evolved to address these problems. What is orchestration?

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. Though the industry champions observability as a vital component, it’s become clear that teams need more than data on dashboards to overcome persistent DevOps challenges.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

Many organizations that have integrated their software development and operations into DevOps practices struggle with efficiency because they’re juggling disparate DevOps tools, or their tools aren’t meeting their needs. The status quo of the DevOps toolchain. How to approach transforming your DevOps processes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2021

DevOps metrics and digital experience data are critical to this. Breaking down the silos between IT and operations to form a DevOps team, and then extending this to other departments to achieve BizDevOps, has been central to reaching this goal. Dynatrace news. Every journey matters, and we have to deliver on every single transaction.”.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. So which is it: SRE vs DevOps, or SRE and DevOps? DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps as a philosophy.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. As part of the continuous cycle of progressive delivery, DevOps teams are also adopting shift-left and shift-right principles to ensure software quality in these dynamic environments.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. As part of the continuous cycle of progressive delivery, DevOps teams are also adopting shift-left and shift-right principles to ensure software quality in these dynamic environments.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

That’s especially true of the DevOps teams who must drive digital-fueled sustainable growth. Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. All of these factors challenge DevOps maturity. What is DevOps maturity?

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

Infrastructure complexity is costing enterprises money. AIOps offers an alternative to traditional infrastructure monitoring and management with end-to-end visibility and observability into IT stacks. As 69% of CIOs surveyed said, it’s time for a “radically different approach” to infrastructure monitoring.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Cloud 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

If security concerns are driving you to review your approach to development, you’re likely weighing DevOps vs DevSecOps, and considering how to incorporate security practices into your software delivery workflows, to protect your users and your business. DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security into the DevOps workflow.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Creating an SLO dashboard for Business, DevOps, and SREs. Dynatrace news. This capability was nicely explained in a recent blog.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. Dynatrace news. What is vulnerability assessment? Assess risk.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 176

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The development of internal platform teams has taken off in the last three years, primarily in response to the challenges inherent in scaling modern, containerized IT infrastructures. The ability to effectively manage multi-cluster infrastructure is critical to consistent and scalable service delivery.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

The DevOps playbook has proven its value for many organizations by improving software development agility, efficiency, and speed. These methods improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC), but what if infrastructure deployment and management could also benefit? Dynatrace news. What is GitOps? How does GitOps work?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. The goal is to abstract away the underlying infrastructure’s complexities while providing a streamlined and standardized environment for development teams.

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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. How is it different from DevOps, and what’s next for the relationship between development, security, and operations within enterprises? Operations.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. These DevSecOps trends will also aid teams as they integrate security and compliance into processes without slowing innovation or creating additional work for already time-strapped teams.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications. Other aspects of the discipline — such as infrastructure as code, automation, and standardization — reduce extraneous manual processes to increase developer productivity.

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Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 218

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, speed and DevOps automation are critical to innovating faster, and platform engineering has emerged as an answer to some of the most significant challenges DevOps teams are facing. Unified observability and security in the development process are crucial to defining ownership in the development process.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. With DQL, the workflow trigger to initiate a required automation and remediation process can be defined.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2024

Navigate digital infrastructure complexity In today’s rapidly evolving digital environment, organizations face increasing pressure from customers and competitors to deliver faster, more secure innovations. The effectiveness of this automation relies on the quality of the underlying data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. And that includes infrastructure monitoring. This also implies a fundamental change to the role of infrastructure and operations teams. Able to provide answers, not just data.

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Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 153

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As a result, IT operations, DevOps , and SRE teams are all looking for greater observability into these increasingly diverse and complex computing environments. In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 189

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This modular microservices-based approach to computing decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide greater flexibility and durability, while enabling developers to build and update these applications faster and with less risk. A service mesh can solve these problems, but it can also introduce its own issues.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Observability across the full technology stack gives teams comprehensive, real-time insight into the behavior, performance, and health of applications and their underlying infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 24, 2020

IT, DevOps, and SRE teams seeking to know the health of their apps and services have always faced obstacles that can drain productivity, stifle collaboration, ratchet up the time to resolution, and limit the effectiveness of their collaboration with other parts of the business. Dynatrace news.

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