The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Besides the need for robust cloud storage for their media, artists need access to powerful workstations and real-time playback. This infrastructure is available for Netflix shows and is foundational under Content Hubs Media Production Suite tooling. ACES and AMF for color pipeline management. So what isit?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Minimizes downtime and increases efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. Challenges with running Hyper-V Working with Hyper-V can come with several challenges.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency? Moreover, most organizations use a combination of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We kick off with a few topics focused on how were empowering Netflix to efficiently produce and effectively deliver high quality, actionable analytic insights across the company. Subsequent posts will detail examples of exciting analytic engineering domain applications and aspects of the technical craft.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The methodology and algorithms were designed by Dynatrace with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA), expanding on formulas from the open source project Cloud Carbon Footprint. In fact, most of the proposed optimizations for computational efficiency and improved performance will also reduce energy consumption.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

In this blog post, youll learn how Dynatrace OneAgent automatically identifies Journald and ingests structured logs into Dynatrace while enriching them with topology and infrastructure context. Thanks to its structured and binary format, Journald is quick and efficient.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This led to a suite of fragmented scripts, runbooks, and ad hoc solutions scattered across teamsan approach that was neither sustainable nor efficient. This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These developments open up new use cases, allowing Dynatrace customers to harness even more data for comprehensive AI-driven insights, faster troubleshooting, and improved operational efficiency. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues. where an error occurred at the code level.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. This model supports both simple and complex data models, balancing flexibility and efficiency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Dynatrace CSPM solution significantly enhances security, compliance, and resource efficiency through continuous monitoring, automated remediation, and centralized visibility for enterprises managing complex hybrid and multicloud environments. Grail allows for collaboration and remediation actions across multiple teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. Polymorphic Data Storage. Greenplum Advantages.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system.

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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? It is scalable and reduces time needed to set up infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. They enable IT teams to identify and address the precise cause of application and infrastructure issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Grail is built for such analytics, not storage.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Theyre often categorized by their function; core processes directly create customer value, support processes increase departmental efficiency, and management processes drive strategic goals and compliance. Log files using OpenPipeline to extract and transform business data while reducing log management and storage overhead.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. Cold storage and rehydration. Inadequate context.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. Cold storage and rehydration. Inadequate context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. They could need a GPU when doing graphics-intensive work or extra large storage to handle file management. We rely on our internal partner teams to support components installed on the workstation, such as storage and artist tools.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Progressive rollouts, rollbacks, storage orchestration, bin packing, self-healing, cost efficiency, and access to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem carry heavy observability challenges. Unlike evictions from resource exhaustion on a node, this event resulted from ephemeral storage limits exceeded on the pod.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

As organizations turn to artificial intelligence for operational efficiency and product innovation in multicloud environments, they have to balance the benefits with skyrocketing costs associated with AI. The good news is AI-augmented applications can make organizations massively more productive and efficient.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dynatrace, in tandem with the Nutanix extension, simplifies performance monitoring and makes issue identification and resolution more efficient. By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure.

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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. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. This enables IT teams to quickly and efficiently find the answers they need.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

As a result, organizations are implementing security analytics to manage risk and improve DevSecOps efficiency. Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes enables efficient resource utilization by easily scaling applications and services based on demand. Container Network Interface (CNI) provides a common way to seamlessly integrate various technologies with the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure. This helps to avoid downtime for end users. Automated scaling. Self-healing.

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