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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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g.,

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. What’s ahead.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. Solving custom API observability with OpenTelemetry Because the bank group needed complete coverage for all API traffic, it wanted to standardize tracing on all API calls.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. Telegraf is an open-source agent by Influxdata. With the addition of a secure local REST API, we’ll soon bring this to other open-source metric providers like Spring Micrometer or OpenTelemetry metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Whatever your use case, when log data reflects changes in your infrastructure or business metrics, you need to extract the metrics and monitor them.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

This is due to a number of factors, including the rise of cloud infrastructure, automation, and an abundance of prebuilt open-source libraries and third-party/supply-chain products. Traffic lights on a busy stretch of road could go dark. Innovating with software is happening faster than ever.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Monitor your cloud OpenPipeline ™ is the Dynatrace platform data-handling solution designed to seamlessly ingest and process data from any source, regardless of scale or format. With OpenPipeline, you can effortlessly collect data from Dynatrace OneAgent ® , open-source collectors such as OpenTelemetry, or other third-party tools.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Amazon EC2.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces. In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability. Especially if you have custom applications that rely on APIs to integrate with other services.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Delivering financial services requires a complex landscape of applications, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Dynatrace can detect and prioritize exposures in any monitored application, including third-party software like COTS and open source.

Best Practices 290

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Some of the prominent open-source solutions include: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover by ClusterLabs Replication Manager for PostgreSQL Clusters by repmgr (2ndQuadrant) Patroni Each tool provides its way of managing high-availability PostgreSQL clusters. There was no disruption in the writer application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. Telltale uses a variety of signals from multiple sources to assemble a constantly evolving model of the application’s health: Atlas time series metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity. Distributed traces are the path of a transaction as it touches applications, services, and infrastructure from beginning to end.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul. You’ll hear from two teams here: first Application Security, and then Cloud Gateway.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers have confidence to receive change events as they occur on a source.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. Where is Cacti for streaming telemetry?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers receive change events as they occur on a source.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the past few years, Dynatrace has been a keen voice in the field of DevOps and provided enterprise knowledge and expertise in the shape of Keptn, the open-source, cloud-native, lifecycle orchestration control plane developed as a CNCF sandbox project.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch is one of the best and widely adopted distributed, open source search and analytics engines for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured or unstructured data. We also utilize Kafka to process these assets asynchronously without impacting our real time traffic.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. First, Dynatrace OneAgent  will automatically monitor and trace our infrastructure and communicate with Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We’re using cvxpy as a nice generic symbolic front-end to represent the problem which can then be fed into various open-source or proprietary MIP solver backends. The predictions are then fed into a MIP which is solved on the fly. Since MIPs are NP-hard, some care needs to be taken. For services, the gains were even more impressive.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. Heading over to `Infrastructure` / `Hosts` in your dashboard, you should now have an entry for the host where you installed OneAgent.

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