The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Observability is no longer just for IT Ops Observability is no longer just about monitoring IT systems. Today, observability is integral to the entire software development lifecycle. Its aboutunderstandingand automating the entire digital ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shifting to customer-centric IT For observability data to be meaningful, it must connect the performance of IT systems to customer experience throughout their journey, across both digital and physical touchpoints. Only then can executives understand whether their software helps to deliver the intended business outcomes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

In today’s digital world, software is everywhere. Software is behind most of our human and business interactions. This, in turn, accelerates the need for businesses to implement the practice of software automation to improve and streamline processes. What is software automation? What is software analytics?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 12, 2022

Park ‘N Fly has created a series of software-based services to enhance customer experience while patrons park. But Park ‘N Fly’s services require software intelligence at every layer of the IT stack. Ultimately, better infrastructure management enables organizations like Park ‘N Fly to innovate through software.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable. However, the drive to innovate faster and transition to cloud-native application architectures generates more than just complexity — it’s creating significant new risk.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever. Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

With constraints on IT resources, downtime shifts staff away from innovation and other strategic work. Observability-driven DevOps enables state agencies to deliver higher-quality software faster MNIT can make better, data-driven release decisions by integrating observability data into the DevOps team’s delivery pipelines.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Dynatrace platform is a key part of our strategy where teams across the whole organization are leveraging Dynatrace® for end-to-end visibility across our entire technology stack and automating across our software development lifecycle (SDLC). Accelerated digital transformation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

According to recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), generative AI will change software development activities, from quality assurance to debugging to CI/CD pipeline configuration. On the whole, survey respondents view AI as a way to accelerate software development and to improve software quality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

These organizations have built automation into their DevOps environments to a degree that there is no longer a need for a traditional Ops team to manage software in-house. The survey had eight questions related to current team effectiveness and system stability. Where do you want to spend your time and money? How to get started.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Indeed, we have created some of our most innovative and successful ideas when we have entered unchartered territory. A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System , the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. You will need to invent on their behalf.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Why organizations are turning to software development to deliver business value. Digital immunity has emerged as a strategic priority for organizations striving to create secure software development that delivers business value. Software development success no longer means just meeting project deadlines. Autonomous testing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform provides you with so much more monitoring functionality. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

For operations, development and security teams, the pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster has never been more critical for business value. Dynatrace Delivers Software Intelligence as Code. They’re really getting more of a system.”?. Dynatrace news. Learn more!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. That’s because every company is now a software company. As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. That’s exactly what a software intelligence platform does.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Dynatrace, as the leading software intelligence platform ( Gartner Magic Quadrant ), has been known for many years for its unique auto-adaptive, multidimensional baselining in the APM space. Of course, we could define a static threshold for each disk within the IT system.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Tune in to learn how innovation can help government agencies gain control of open source security, manage risk, and secure the next generation of technology. Establish a proactive process to keep your products and systems as up-to-date as possible. Stephen Magill of Sonatype joins the podcast to ease concerns. Stay up to date.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

IBM Z systems power billions of transactions each day and are used by most Fortune 500 companies. Over the years however, classic mainframe environments have been transformed, with their services frequently linked to distributed systems or an enterprise cloud. Dynatrace news. This metric helps you to understand your current workload.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As software pipelines evolve, so do the demands on binary and artifact storage systems. Enterprises must future-proof their infrastructure with a vendor-neutral solution that includes an abstraction layer , preventing dependency on any one provider and enabling agile innovation. Let’s explore the key players:

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2024

Their collective contributions have helped to establish Kubernetes as the primary container orchestration software for 71 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes traces its roots back to Google’s internal Borg and Omega cluster management systems from the early 2000s. Read the full article in The Register.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Every software development team grappling with Generative AI (GenAI) and LLM-based applications knows the challenge: how to observe, monitor, and secure production-level workloads at scale. How can you gain insights that drive innovation and reliability in AI initiatives without breaking the bank?

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DZone

JUNE 24, 2024

Objectives Modern AI innovations require proper infrastructure, especially concerning data throughput and storage capabilities. Traditional enterprise storage or HPC-focused parallel file systems are costly and challenging to manage for AI-scale deployments. The 2U dual sockets server used by Delta and equipped with 24x 7450 NVMe 15.36

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 15, 2024

In a broadcast interview with CNBC Europe’s Squawk Box, Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell discussed how the company’s roots in Central Europe have been critical to its success and ability to deliver industry-leading innovation.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. Dynatrace news. This is fueling key DevSecOps trends in 2022.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace news. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. At Dynatrace Perform, the annual software intelligence platform conference, we will highlight new integrations that eliminate toolchain silos, tame complexity, and automate DevOps practices.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2024

These criteria include operational excellence, security and data privacy, speed to market, and disruptive innovation. Ally’s goal was to reduce the number of monitoring tools it was using and its annual spend while gaining better, more actionable—and more automatable—insights into systems that affect customer experiences.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The platform helps companies manage corporate spending using automation, card (physical and virtual), and integrations with expense management systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as Netsuite, Concur, Zucchetti, and so on. “We What is security by design? I think we had a very good result,” Domenella added.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. In order to unleash the innovation organizations need to evolve their SRE approaches. Dynatrace news. SRE adoption is growing, yet gaps remain.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Deploying and safeguarding software services has become increasingly complex despite numerous innovations, such as containers, Kubernetes, and platform engineering. Recent global IT outages, such as the CrowdStrike incident, remind us how dependent society is on software that works perfectly.

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