The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As Netflix expanded globally and the volume of title launches skyrocketed, the operational challenges of maintaining this manual process became undeniable. This led to a suite of fragmented scripts, runbooks, and ad hoc solutions scattered across teamsan approach that was neither sustainable nor efficient.

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DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern in the design and operation of distributed systems due to the increasing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly computing solutions.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Lastly, monitoring and maintaining system health within a virtual environment, which includes efficient troubleshooting and issue resolution, can pose a significant challenge for IT teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

As a result, requests are uniformly handled, and responses are processed cohesively. This data is processed from a real-time impressions stream into a Kafka queue, which our title health system regularly polls. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. JSON_QUERY extracts JSON fragments based on query conditions.

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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. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Kickstarting the dashboard creation process is, however, just one advantage of ready-made dashboards. There are cases where more flexible data presentation is needed. This efficient method allows you to easily browse and identify the appropriate metrics; adding them to your notebooks and dashboards requires just a single click.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Each format has a different production process and different patterns of cash spend, called our Content Forecast. Need to catch up?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Today, IT services have a direct impact on almost every key business performance indicator, from revenue and conversions to customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Often, these metrics are unable to even identify trends from past to present, never mind helping teams to predict future trends. Agility and innovation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. asc | fields `Host`, `Recently Restarted?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This approach improves operational efficiency and resilience, though its not without flaws. It filters billions of log lines, including the topology of each incident and its affected entities, for efficient problem triaging and troubleshooting, resulting in a 56% faster mean time to repair (MTTR) for critical incidents.

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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. This method known as GitOps would also boost the speed and efficiency of practicing DevOps organizations. These practices can be a boon to infrastructure management, but GitOps presents challenges.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

The risk of impact from an existing known vulnerability also depends on whether certain processes are using the vulnerable parts of a software component. Vulnerable function monitoring Tracking vulnerable open source software components efficiently is one of the most important pillars of managing attack surfaces. an RCE vulnerability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination. But gaining observability of distributed environments, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containerized application deployments, presents formidable challenges.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Moreover, seamless integration is achieved through out-of-the-box solutions that connect, transform, and map your findings data into a unified format using the Dynatrace Semantic Dictionary, ensuring a smooth and efficient security workflow. Cloud architects also seek to minimize manual efforts in managing each finding.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Adding AIOps to automation processes makes the volume of data that applications and multicloud environments generate much less overwhelming.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Communicating security insights efficiently across teams in your organization isn’t easy Security management is a complex and challenging task; effectively communicating security insights is even more so. Sample dashboard Next, you want to prepare an efficient plan for remediation.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Across both his day one and day two mainstage presentations, Steve Tack, SVP of Product Management, described some of the investments we’re making to continue to differentiate the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. Dynatrace news. Next-gen Infrastructure Monitoring.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I wanted to present as much information as possible. This is where the consolidated API, which I presented in my last post , comes into play. Getting the problem status of all environments has to be efficient. Websockets allows efficient data push via multicast to browsers and D3.js Lightweight architecture. js framework.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, developers, engineers, and architects face unprecedented challenges in managing, processing, and deriving value from vast amounts of data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models. What can we move?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When a question gets asked, run its text through this same embedding model, determine which chunks are nearest neighbors , then present these chunks as a ranked list to the LLM to generate a response. While the overall process may be more complicated in practice, this is the gist. What is GraphRAG? Do LLMs Really Adapt to Domains?

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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. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. mp4, clip1.mp4,

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Ortner reviewed the process of solving these issues. “We

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Each process could generate multiple log entries, adding up to terabytes of data every day. Traditionally, teams struggle to centralize all these data silos through the process of indexing.

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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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Think of Smartscape as the visualization of ‘Observability’ across Applications, Services, Processes, Hosts, and Datacenters. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior. Showing a list of key processes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Infrastructure & Operations app provides a comprehensive overview for effective prioritization The new Infrastructure & Operations app provides situational awareness to help ops and SRE teams group and categorize problems efficiently based on their impact. Host technologies in use with status information and links to processes.

Infrastructure 245

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 245

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

DevSecOps presents organizations that are already practicing DevOps with an alternate, more proactive perspective on security. With DevSecOps, organizations can combine security and observability with automation, transforming the SDLC into a quicker, more secure, software release process. Challenges of adopting DevSecOps.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The success of exposure management relies on a well-defined process that includes the following steps: Identifying external-facing assets: This includes everything from websites and web applications to cloud services, APIs, and IoT devices. Exposure management can help ensure compliance with these requirements.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2020

Part two added a few simple examples of how intellectual debt might accrue, highlighting the subtle but real drag on efficiency. We concluded by suggesting that the fuzziness of machine learning systems presents a fundamental problem for autonomous IT operations. Davis can precisely identify the root cause of a problem. Ready for more?

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. This significantly increases event latency.

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