The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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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. Kafka is optimized for high-throughput event streaming , excelling in real-time analytics and large-scale data ingestion. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Dynatrace platform automatically captures and maps metrics, logs, traces, events, user experience data, and security signals into a single datastore, performing contextual analytics through a “power of three AI”—combining causal, predictive, and generative AI. What’s behind it all?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

In addition to logs, and events, Dynatrace surfaces logs streamed from Fluentd so that you can analyze those logs in context with traces and services. The post Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

The following example will monitor an end-to-end order flow utilizing business events displayed on a Dynatrace dashboard. Maintaining reliability and scalability requires a good grasp of resource management; predicting future demands helps prevent resource shortages, avoid over-provisioning, and maintain cost efficiency.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2024

An architectural pattern named Event Sourcing is gaining more and more recognition from developers who aim for strong and scalable systems. This article is aimed at software architects, system developers, and project managers who might be contemplating or are already engaged in integrating Event Sourcing into their systems.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The complexity of these operational demands underscored the urgent need for a scalable solution. Using the source of truth: Logs serve as a reliable source of truth by providing a comprehensive record of system events. As we thought more about this problem and possible solutions, two clear optionsemerged.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

Over the last 3 years, the TripleLift data pipeline scaled from processing millions of events per day to processing billions. In this article, we'll mostly be focusing on the current state of this multi-billion event pipeline.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. Amazon S3: The Simple Storage Service stores and retrieves data from anywhere with scalability, data availability, security, performance, and a high degree of durability. Enhancing event ingestion. AWS offers four serverless offerings for storage. Improving data processing.

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High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

It's HighScalability time: Event horizon? Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). It's a close up of a security hologram. Makes one think.

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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

MARCH 5, 2019

Challenges & Opportunities in the Infra Data Space Security Events Platform for Anomaly Detection How can we develop a complex event processing system to ingest semi-structured data predicated on schema contracts from hundreds of sources and transform it into event streams of structured data for downstream analysis?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

events processed to date 300k+ users globally 50% of the Fortune 100 use @pagerduty 10,500+ customers of every size 300+ integrations ?? They'll love you even more. This issue has been gathering steam for the last few years, after aggressive moves by John Deere to lock down the equipment. RachFrieee : 3.6B So many more quotes.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of cloud computing and event-driven applications, efficiency and flexibility are absolute necessities. A smooth flow of messages in an event-driven application is the key to its performance and efficiency. A critical component of such an application is message distribution.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

However, having our analytics events in BigQuery is not enough. In part one , we described our Analytics data ingestion pipeline, with BigQuery sitting as our data warehouse. Most importantly, data needs to be served to our end-users.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the vibrant world of microservices and event-driven architectures, messaging queues have emerged as a critical component, enabling asynchronous communication, decoupling systems, and unlocking scalability. However, with a vibrant landscape of options, choosing the optimal queue can feel like navigating a complex maze.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With these additional availability zones you’ll get: More scalability and load-balancing options. More space for redundancy and additional options for managing any potential cloud vendor issues, or issues caused by external events. More resiliency and even safer public synthetic monitoring locations.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

sapessi : Lambda simplifies concurrency at the frontend, enforcing one event per function at a time. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We have chosen this NoSQL based solution over relational databases as it provides the scalability to have hierarchies which go beyond two levels and extensibility due to the schema-less behavior of NoSQL data storage. The entity C denotes the event where a user likes a post and entity D denotes the action when a user follows another user.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In order to allow for this mimicking, many systems implement an event handling, where they convert our request into a call to the real service with properties enabled to log when titles are filtered out of their response and why. Conclusion Throughout this series, weve explored the journey of enhancing title launch observability at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. SREs invest significant effort in enhancing software reliability, scalability, and dependability. However, this is highly unlikely.

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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

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. How does function as a service affect scalability? But what is FaaS? What is FaaS?

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. An orchestration platform needs to expose data about its internal states and activities in the form of logs, events, metrics, or transaction traces. Event logs for ad-hoc analysis and auditing.

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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. Triggering the Lambda function is event-driven and could include changes in state or an update to a file. What is a Lambda serverless function? What is Lambda Response Streaming?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. Understanding the context. OpenPipeline unifies the ingestion of data sent to Dynatrace from any source in any format.

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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. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is widely used to build event-driven systems or decouple services on AWS. Benefits of Amazon SQS Amazon SQS is a highly reliable and scalable message queuing service that enables you to reliably connect your applications. It provides the following benefits:

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can read part one here: Scalable Solutions With Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Set Up Three PostgreSQL Database Instances. Check the “ Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL (Part 1) ” blog post to set up three nodes. event_time: A timestamp to record when the event occurred.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Many organizations also adopt an observability solution to help them detect and analyze the significance of events to their operations, software development life cycles, application security, and end-user experiences. Making observability actionable and scalable for IT teams.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While we were able to put out the immediate fire by disabling the newly created alerts, this incident raised some critical concerns around the scalability of our alerting system. It became clear to us that we needed to solve the scalability problem with a fundamentally different approach. OK, Results?

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InfoQ

MARCH 7, 2024

The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution. By Rafal Gancarz

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