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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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Dynatrace extends Synthetic Monitoring capabilities with Network Availability Monitors to validate the availability of infrastructure and services

Dynatrace

Why browser and HTTP monitors might not be sufficient In modern IT environments, which are complex and dynamically changing, you often need deeper insights into the Transport or Network layers. Is it a bug in the codebase, a malfunctioning backend service, an overloaded hosting infrastructure, or perhaps a misconfigured network?

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

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. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement.

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Uber Infrastructure in 2019: Improving Reliability, Driving Customer Satisfaction

Uber Engineering

Every day around the world, millions of trips take place across the Uber network, giving users more reliable transportation through ridesharing, bikes, and scooters, drivers and truckers additional opportunities to earn, employees and employers more convenient business travel, and hungry … The post Uber Infrastructure in 2019: Improving Reliability, (..)

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Fallacy #7: Transport cost is zero

Particular Software

In order to connect our data center to the rest of the world, we must exchange currency for the transport of our bits and bytes. Trade-offs must be made between infrastructure costs and development costs, both upfront and ongoing. Beware premature optimization We can’t neglect to consider the cost of development effort.