The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Netflix software infrastructure is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers that are operated on the AWS and Netflix owned services. The Flow Exporter also publishes various operational metrics to Atlas. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line. What is digital experience monitoring?

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 198

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story. Track log metrics and receive alerts without manually setting thresholds.

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Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 257

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

In software we use the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to enable us to keep track of our system versus our goals, often shown in a dashboard – like below –, to help us to reach an objective or provide an excellent service for users. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Creating a dashboard reporting your relevant KPI.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Many use cases in your software development, delivery, and operations depend on the real-time data that your Dynatrace monitoring environment collects. More cost-efficiency through the incorporation of consumption and usage data. Example: GET /metric?fields=+aggregationTypes,-description. Example: GET /metric?fields=transformations,dimensionDefinitions.

Metrics 185

Metrics Scalability Tuning Monitoring 185

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform supports you on your way to the enterprise cloud with deep insights into containerized, scalable microservices on cutting-edge technologies like Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes. These capabilities allow you to build efficient and robust business services on the mainframe. Stay tuned!

Java 176

Java Database Programming Government 176

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

As more organizations respond to the pressure to release better software faster, there is an increasing need to build quality gates into every stage of BizDevOps processes , from early development to deployment. Dynatrace news. What are quality gates? Using quality gates for measurable impacts. The value of fixing issues up-front.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 178

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. It’s important to ensure the bells and whistles of any software-as-a-service (SaaS) they offer can support where you aim to take your business, keeping your strategy tight and on track.

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is particularly important for large enterprises, where implementing least privilege access to all software used within the organization is likely required. To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 108

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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Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 261

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

Dynatrace extends AI-powered software intelligence platform to hybrid mainframe environments. As with all other technologies monitored by Dynatrace, Smartscape auto-discovery delivers a quick and efficient overview of all the topological dependencies in your environment. IBM mainframe agents don’t provide host metrics.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready? Vanilla PostgreSQL is not enterprise-ready.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 81

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

If you work in software development, SRE, or DevOps, you’ve likely heard the terms observability, telemetry, and tracing. These concepts are crucial for understanding how applications behave in production environments, and they’re an essential part of modern software development practices. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 228

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 235

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Today’s highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and complex software systems require organizations to establish observability for all provided cloud-native services. T o get performance insights into applications and efficiently troubleshoot and optimize them, you need precise and actionable analytics across the entire software life cycle.

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Metrics Open Source Tuning Analytics 150

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture 182

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 281

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub helps enterprises easily apply AI to all technologies and data sources and unlock automation at scale. Just like the Dynatrace Platform, the Software Intelligence Hub is built with automation at its core. It requires a simple and automated approach to provide value at scale.

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Software Software Technology Technology 142

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context.

Analytics 181

Analytics Innovation Metrics Architecture 181

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

State and local agencies must spend taxpayer dollars efficiently while building a culture that supports innovation and productivity. APM helps ensure that citizens experience strong application reliability and performance efficiency. million annually through retiring legacy technology debt and tool rationalization. over five years.

Government 158

Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 158

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. For software to be delivered in a deployable state at all times requires that it be developed with that mindset.

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Our customers are increasingly transitioning to agile software development, DevOps, and progressive continuous delivery to deliver business value faster. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 149

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. Watch webinar now! Networking. Observability.

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Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 296

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log files contain much of the data that makes a system observable: for example, records of all events that occur throughout the operating system, network devices, pieces of software, or even communication between users and application systems. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 204

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 204

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Software companies who have already been following and adopting DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices alongside their shared ancestry in agile concepts came out on top – especially if they adopted those practices across the whole organization and customer value stream. when looking at a software issue ticket.

Cloud 164

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 164

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

To bring higher-quality information to Well-Architected Reviews and to establish a strategic advanced observability solution to support the Well-Architected Framework 5-pillars, Dynatrace offers a fully automated, software intelligence platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 142

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. Establishing robust data retention policies that are consistently enforced can guarantee both compliance with these requirements and the facilitation of efficient logging operations.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Immutable infrastructure. The principles of cloud-native architecture.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., The key to an efficient system is the identification of cold pages: the cold age threshold determines how many seconds we can go without a page being accessed before it is declared cold. ML-based auto-tuning. ASPLOS’19. Evaluation.

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

A single pane of glass to view trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics. Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. See your AWS serverless workloads in full context with customer experience and business outcome metrics.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Mobile 204

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. How do we give the software delivery organization a louder voice in business strategy? Register today .

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91