The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

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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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Are you looking to monitor your infrastructure using one of our ready-made extensions, or would you like to draw on our experience and create your own synthetic monitors? Third-party synthetic monitors.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice?

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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. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. How log management systems optimize performance and security.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

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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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. In this article, I will share some of the best practices to help you understand and survive the current situation — as well as future proof your applications and infrastructure for similar situations that might occur in the months and years to come.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

You might have state-of-the-art surveillance systems and guards at the main entrance, but if a side door is left unlocked, all the security becomes meaningless. What seems like an innocuous config file could contain the access credentials to your most sensitive systems. Security principle. Real-world impact. Real-world impact.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This modular microservices-based approach to computing decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide greater flexibility and durability, while enabling developers to build and update these applications faster and with less risk. A service mesh can solve these problems, but it can also introduce its own issues.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. Without seeing syslog data in the context of your infrastructure, metrics, and transaction traces, you’re slowed down by manual work with siloed data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

You can either continue with the custom infrastructure metrics dashboard you created in Part I or use the dashboard we prepared here (Dynatrace login required). In our Dynatrace Dashboard tutorial, we want to add a chart that shows the bytes in and out per host over time to enhance visibility into network traffic.

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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? Networking.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Many organizations, somewhat erroneously, respond to cloud complexity by using multiple tools to monitor and manage system health. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops?

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions. Media p erformance .

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. In cloud computing environments, infrastructure and services are maintained by the cloud vendor, allowing you to focus on how best to serve your customers. However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A unified platform approach to observability and security Dynatrace and its partners offer powerful solutions to complex business resiliency challenges through an observability and security platform that delivers a unified view of applications, infrastructure, and business processes.

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Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance 290

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The resulting outages wreaked havoc on customer experiences and left IT professionals scrambling to quickly find and repair affected systems. Dynatrace offers various out-of-the-box features and applications to provide a high-density overview of system health for all hosts and related metrics in a single view.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems. This data helps teams see where attacks began, which systems were targeted, and what techniques attackers used.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. But manual configuration of observability for systems like this is nearly impossible. SNMP observability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Organizations are doing their best to monitor what they can, often using disparate tools for logs, infrastructure, and digital experience. The webinar begins with an overview of Kubernetes, emphasizing its popularity and the technical simplicity that underscores the value of infrastructure as code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Now, Dynatrace has the ability to turn numerical values from logs into metrics, which unlocks AI-powered answers, context, and automation for your apps and infrastructure, at scale. Key information about your system and applications comes from logs. Duration: 163.41 ms Billed Duration: 200 ms. Dynatrace metrics break down silos.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated. And when a system breaks, AI-enabled platforms like these find the issue in seconds.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. This is achieved by active-active deployment for optimum hardware utilization, thus eliminating the need for separate standby disaster recovery (passive) hosts and the associated infrastructure to store and transfer backup data. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

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., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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