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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. These kinds of problems are unacceptable.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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Elasticsearch Indexing Strategy in Asset Management Platform (AMP)

The Netflix TechBlog

Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. It was time to take a step back and reevaluate our ES data indexing and sharding strategy. We also changed our mapping strategy to overcome these issues.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim.

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Digital transformation strategies: Success stories from three digital transformation journeys

Dynatrace

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. A comprehensive digital transformation strategy can help organizations better understand the market, reach customers more effectively, and respond to changing demand more quickly. Competitive advantage.

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable.

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