The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. The following example will monitor an end-to-end order flow utilizing business events displayed on a Dynatrace dashboard.

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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. Transparency and scalability. Infrastructure-as-code.

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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. They need event-driven automation that not only responds to events and triggers but also analyzes and interprets the context to deliver precise and proactive actions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The complexity of these operational demands underscored the urgent need for a scalable solution. This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure. As we thought more about this problem and possible solutions, two clear optionsemerged.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

These insights have shaped the design of our foundation model, enabling a transition from maintaining numerous small, specialized models to building a scalable, efficient system. To harness this data effectively, we employ a process of interaction tokenization, ensuring meaningful events are identified and redundancies are minimized.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. Why use a serverless architecture? Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity.

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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. From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Metrics can originate from a variety of sources, including infrastructure, hosts, services, cloud platforms, and external sources.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

This year, Google’s event will take place from April 9 to 11 in Las Vegas. As organizations continue to expand within cloud-native environments using Google Cloud, ensuring scalability becomes a top priority. The annual Google Cloud Next conference explores the latest innovations for cloud technology and Google Cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure.

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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 old saying in the software development community, “You build it, you run it,” no longer works as a scalable approach in the modern cloud-native world.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices. Dynatrace supports scalable data ingestion, ensuring your observability infrastructure grows with your cloud environment.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform accelerates cloud operations, helping organizations achieve service-level objectives (SLOs) with automated intelligence and unmatched scalability. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Event logs for ad-hoc analysis and auditing.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Dynatrace provides powerful AI-based observability, putting all your infrastructure, applications, and events in context. AWS provides the cloud infrastructure, Dynatrace ensures application performance and observability, and Snyk enhances security throughout the development lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

You can easily pivot between a hot Kubernetes cluster and the log file related to the issue in 2-3 clicks in these Dynatrace® Apps: Infrastructure & Observability (I&O), Databases, Clouds, and Kubernetes. A sudden drop in received log data? For a single log record found, you can easily see the surrounding logs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

A traditional log management solution uses an often manual and siloed approach, which limits scalability and ultimately hinders organizational innovation. Organizations can be more agile when they have access to real-time data about their IT infrastructure. Free IT teams to focus on and support product innovation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Streaming raises the default 6 MB hard limit to a 20 MB soft limit, adding greater scalability and flexibility to their applications. Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run. Triggering the Lambda function is event-driven and could include changes in state or an update to a file.

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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. Logs are automatically produced and time-stamped documentation of events relevant to cloud architectures.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. Built for enterprise scalability. What is Lambda? What is Lambda SnapStart?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. As a result, logging tools record large event volumes in real time. What else did the initial event affect?

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. The entity C denotes the event where a user likes a post and entity D denotes the action when a user follows another user. System Components.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. Triggers are powerful mechanisms that react to events dynamically and in real time. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Get a health overview of each system Monitor your system’s performance and detect unexpected events such as IPLs, CPU spikes, and exceeded total job limits. Identify users who are consuming the most spooling files.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

While traditional AI relies on finding correlations in data, causal AI aims to determine the precise underlying mechanisms that drive events and outcomes. Therefore, causal AI is a useful deterministic AI technique that provides concrete answers about the source of events, not probabilistic outputs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

GKE Autopilot empowers organizations to invest in creating elegant digital experiences for their customers in lieu of expensive infrastructure management. Dynatrace’s collaboration with Google addresses these needs by providing simple, scalable, and innovative data acquisition for comprehensive analysis and troubleshooting.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior. AI helps provide in-depth context around system issues, anomalies, and other events instead of merely identifying them.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Improved compliance A better understanding of data security across multiple applications and environments provides a unified view of events and information. Security analytics vs. SIEM Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are staples of enterprise security. This offers two advantages for compliance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. OneAgent: Citrix infrastructure performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance. It delivers vital enterprise applications to thousands of users.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2023

In turn, manual approaches to identifying code issues and troubleshooting are not scalable. Meanwhile, the Gartner 2022 State of Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Automation report indicates that just 21% of I&O leaders report high success in their automation endeavors. This statistic is despite the $9.1

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