The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. As the consumer processes these results, the system tracks the number of items consumed and the total size used.

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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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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. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, this category requires near-immediate access to the current count at low latencies, all while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum. Eventually Consistent : This category needs accurate and durable counts, and is willing to tolerate a slight delay in accuracy and a slightly higher infrastructure cost as a trade-off.

Latency 224

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 224

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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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 202

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. The ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases are SQL Server databases and should be part of a regular backup process, just like other user databases. Tuning Options.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2024

Complexity of digital ecosystems Pain point : Financial services operate in complex environments with numerous applications, hybrid cloud infrastructures, and third-party vendors. This complexity increases cybersecurity risks and complicates governance.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On Episode 73 of the Tech Transforms podcast , MITRE’s Tracy Bannon and I sat down with Allan Friedman , a senior advisor and strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this episode, Friedman explained the challenges with this process, namely balancing perspectives from across government and industry.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2024

Complexity of digital ecosystems Pain point : Financial services operate in complex environments with numerous applications, hybrid cloud infrastructures, and third-party vendors. This complexity increases cybersecurity risks and complicates governance.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Text-based records of events and activities generated by applications and infrastructure components. To understand what this means, let’s first look at two of the core concepts: observability and telemetry.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The voice service then constructs a message for the device and places it on the message queue, which is then processed and sent to Pushy to deliver to the device. The previous version of the message processor was a Mantis stream-processing job that processed messages from the message queue.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

So when people hear me explain things, it’s this process of convincing myself I completely understand it.”. There are stakeholders, dependencies, and end-users throughout the process. Infrastructure as code vs infrastructure as data. As a result, teams can automate more processes in their software development lifecycle.

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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. They enable IT teams to identify and address the precise cause of application and infrastructure issues.

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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. What is BPF?

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. The validation process is automated based on events that occur, while the objectives’ configuration, which is validated by the Site Reliability Guardian , is stored in a separate file.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, the Parliament of India released the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , which regulates the processing of digital personal data in India and recognizes the right of individuals to protect their data in India. Dynatrace is already supported in 17 local regions on three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).

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AWS Azure Tuning Analytics 249

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Pensive infrastructure comprises two separate systems to support batch and streaming workloads. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure. In the future, we are looking to automate this process.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Golden Paths for rapid product development Modern software development aims to streamline development and delivery processes to ensure fast releases to the market without violating quality and security standards. After completing this two-step process, a ready-to-use guardian is created.

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Government Best Practices DevOps Engineering 207

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

” The Dynatrace Kubernetes app also provides process ownership data, ensuring information is directed to the right team and root causes are addressed. Dynatrace and Akamas work together to help organizations pinpoint problems, determine ownership, and implement autonomous processes that help reduce the risk of ongoing issues.

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Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 239

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Immutable infrastructure. The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

RabbitMQ augments its users’ security and experience by simplifying the processes involved in granting authorizations. This process follows authentication and determines the permissible actions for a user. By adopting OAuth 2.0, This streamlines managing access rights for users within the service.

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Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, teams have begun to apply DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation, giving developers a more active role with GitOps as an operational framework. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

This process, known as auto-adaptive thresholding, eliminates the need to define a static threshold upfront. While platform engineers can build and prepare the necessary infrastructure and templates for self-adoption, developers must still provide some customization.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without adequate flexibility in the subscription model, your organization might fail to benefit from capabilities that could transform your observability and security processes. Also, if limits are set too low, some critical components in your infrastructure might go unmonitored, potentially negatively impacting your business.

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Monitoring Tuning Infrastructure Availability 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log monitoring is a process by which developers and administrators continuously observe logs as they’re being recorded. Log analytics is the process of evaluating and interpreting log data so teams can quickly detect and resolve issues.

Analytics 222

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 222

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

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Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 201

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

DevOps 209

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 209

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. PostgreSQL Configuration Management & Tuning.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Many technologies expose their metrics in the Prometheus data format.

Technology 229

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 229

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length. Error logs for the process reveal a PHP syntax error with code-level information that caused the outage. See the complete list of log sources on each host page, even if the sources are tied to another process group.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Project by Netflix’s Cloud Infrastructure Security team ( Alex Bainbridge , Mike Grima , Nick Siow) Cloud security is a hard problem, but an even harder one is cloud security at scale. We knew that given our scale, we needed to rely heavily on automations and that we needed to build our solutions using battle tested scalable infrastructure.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Scalability 202

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. The ultimate goal of each of these reviews is to identify gaps, quantify risk, and develop recommendations for improving the team, processes, and architecture with each of the five pillars.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. of PostgreSQL users are currently in the process of migrating to the RDBMS, according to the 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report , an astounding percentage considering this is the 4th most popular database in the world.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

To solve this problem , Dynatrace offers a fully automated approach to infrastructure and application observability including Kubernetes control plane, deployments, pods, nodes, and a wide array of cloud-native technologies. None of this complexity is exposed to application and infrastructure teams. A look to the future.

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