The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Our AnswerContent Hubs Media Production Suite(MPS) [link] Building a global scalable solution that could be utilized in a diversity of markets has been an exciting challenge. This infrastructure is available for Netflix shows and is foundational under Content Hubs Media Production Suite tooling. So what isit?

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High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. We’d like to explicitly acknowledge that some of the strategies this book recommends require infrastructure support that simply may not exist where you’re currently working. Google has problems, just like you.

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Google Systems Best Practices Strategy 208

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

According to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Data & Analytics, 28% of businesses run analytics on their employee behavior data, roughly the same number that analyze IT infrastructure data. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. They’re currently putting it into traditional financial firms.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

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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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Easy scalability. Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. million in 2020. Process portability. CaaS vs. PaaS.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 297

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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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

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. What is Docker?

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 334

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. The infrastructure is typically consumed on public clouds.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

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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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

To get started – just follow the new Keptn Quickstart with a special gift from our friends at Google Cloud Platform! We want to say “Thank you Google” for your support on our mission towards Autonomous Cloud and helping us grow the user base of Keptn! Keptn Quickstart on GKE with $500 GCP credits.

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Cloud Open Source Google Scalability 295

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 264

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 264

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! kellabyte : “Open source” infrastructure companies are a giant s**t show right now. See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Still looking for that perfect xmas gift? Don't be late.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 246

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 245

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

To do so we have successfully established AI-based White box load and resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace, helping identify and resolve major performance and scalability problems in recent projects before deploying to production. Each step is automated from provisioning infrastructure to problem analysis. zone } } } }.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Encouraging a shift-left approach , testing earlier in the development lifecycle. SRE vs DevOps?

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 268

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy. Establish data governance.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

IT operations, application, infrastructure, and development teams all look to the topic of observability as the silver bullet to solve their problems. Neglecting the front-end perspective potentially skews or even misrepresents the understanding of how your applications and infrastructure are performing in the real world, to real users.

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IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 237

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 sectors of infrastructure as 'critical', and 14 of them depend on GPS.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Hyperscaler cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform can do this, too. ” But Dynatrace goes further.

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Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 278

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Smaller teams can launch services much faster using flexible containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, or serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. Service mesh. Auto-discovery.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With increased scalability, agility, and flexibility, cloud computing enables organizations to improve supply chains, deliver higher customer satisfaction, and more. That’s why, in part, major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are discussing cloud optimization.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud Innovation 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This led to scalability issues, as teams were stuck managing dozens of custom integrations where a small issue could lead to a major problem. Additionally, Dynatrace provides organizations with more than 625 integrations, including AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and more.

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Open Source Strategy Lambda Metrics 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. When designing and running modern, scalable, and distributed applications, Kubernetes seems to be the solution for all your needs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

However, these highly dynamic and distributed environments require a new approach to monitoring Kubernetes infrastructure and applications. Cloud-native refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure-as-code. How do you make it scalable?

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make it scalable? . Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : .

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Company brands are now measured by the “app” and “app experience” and expect every application to be as fast as Google. As you walk the journey with them, you’ll learn lessons and tweak your approach, usually building out reusable pipelines and infrastructure logistics. Rethinking the process means digital transformation.

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Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 245

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. Immutable infrastructure. Infrastructure is provisioned and modified in code, eliminating much of the need for manual installation and tuning.

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Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. As I wrote in Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018 : Centralized Wins.

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Cloud Internet Internet Google 144

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Motivation Growth in the cloud has exploded, and it is now easier than ever to create infrastructure on the fly. At many companies, managing cloud hygiene and security usually falls under the infrastructure or security teams. If you missed the talk, check it out here. They are the one-stop-shop for cloud permissions and access.

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AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 260

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Vulnerability assessment: Protecting applications and infrastructure – Blog. Vulnerability assessment tools are essential for protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data. Apps and services depend on other services and infrastructure, but each tool and cloud platform stands alone.

Artificial Intelligence 245

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 245

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At ScaleGrid, we’re always pushing the boundaries to offer more flexibility and scalability to our customers. We’re proud to introduce AWS Outposts support, allowing you to manage cloud infrastructure on-premises while maintaining full AWS integration.

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Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make it scalable? . Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : .

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. Over the past months, we’ve also worked very closely with Google to bring new SLO capabilities into our Software Intelligence Platform to enable all our users to scale their SRE practices. Release decision making with Service-Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 231

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Scale and manage infrastructure.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147