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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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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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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. 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. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

.” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example. Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. What is infrastructure as code? Consistency.

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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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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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