The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow, Netflix’s ML Platform tl;dr Today, we are open-sourcing a long-awaited GUI for Metaflow. The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. Of these open-source observability tools, one stands out. Dynatrace news. OpenCensus, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A production bug is the worst; besides impacting customer experience, you need special access privileges, making the process far more time-consuming. It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This cumbersome process should not be the norm.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

They will adopt your monitoring self-service platform instead of building a custom monitoring solution that fits into their development process and mindset. This will make your life easier when scaling monitoring in your organization as well as it increases productivity of your application teams as you fit right into their existing processes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users. Step-by-step setup The log ingestion wizard guides you through the prerequisites and provides ready-to-use command examples to start the installation process. Figure 5.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What Exactly is Greenplum? Greenplum Advantages.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. However, due to the fact that they boil down selected indicators to single values and track error budget levels, they also offer a suitable way to monitor optimization processes while aligning on single values to meet overall goals.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Analytics Engineers deliver these insights by establishing deep business and product partnerships; translating business challenges into solutions that unblock critical decisions; and designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end analytical systems. DJ has a strong pedigreethere are several prior semantic layers in the industry (e.g.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

Scale to zero Scaling systems to match current demand prevents underutilized machines from consuming significant energy while idling. While building production systems that can scale to zero and reliably restart can be challenging, it’s often simpler in test stages and build pipelines, making this a great place to start.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Many organizations are turning to open source solutions to streamline their operations and reduce costs. Open source migration can be a game-changer, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Below, we’ll explore the common pitfalls of open source migration and provide insights on how to avoid them.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration.

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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. Organizations usually implement observability using a combination of instrumentation methods including open-source instrumentation tools, such as OpenTelemetry.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. The unstoppable rise of open source databases. What’s causing this massive shift? Check out the PostgreSQL vs. Oracle Infographic.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2020

It's challenging to troubleshoot issues in a distributed database because the information about the system is scattered in different machines. TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Before version 4.0,

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Our detailed analysis not only illuminates the specifics of CVE-2024-53677 but also offers practical measures to secure your software systems against similar threats. Organizations can better protect their systems and data from exploitation by comprehensively addressing each phase. out of 10.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

The Dynatrace platform now enables comprehensive data exploration and interactive analytics across data sets (trace, logs, events, and metrics)empowering you to solve complex use cases, handle any observability scenario, and gain unprecedented visibility into your systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira. Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Security misconfiguration Security misconfiguration covers the basic security checks every software development process should include. Vulnerable and outdated components This is another broad category that covers libraries, frameworks, and open source components with known vulnerabilities that may not have been patched.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Open source vulnerabilities creeping in through the software supply chain are one key reason for this substantial increase. According to one survey, supply chain attacks on open source software increased 650% in 2021. The compromised software can then compromise customer data or IT systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

Logging provides platform and application owners with an effective way to understand the state of their workloads by giving them a view into the inner workings of their systems. Fluent Bit, an open source tool within the CNCF ecosystem, is a popular choice when choosing which log collection tool to use.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DevSecOps teams can address this unsettling tradeoff by automating processes throughout the SDLC, centralizing application configuration with a shared set of tools, and using observability platforms to gain visibility into code-quality lapses, security gaps, and other software development issues.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While the overall process may be more complicated in practice, this is the gist. The various flavors of RAG borrow from recommender systems practices, such as the use of vector databases and embeddings. For example, a mention of “NLP” might refer to natural language processing in one context or neural linguistic programming in another.

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DZone

JUNE 30, 2020

Network service automation-related requirements are usually realized by means of commercial or open-source network orchestrator or controller software system. JMeter Netconf Plug-in and Network Service Automation. JMeter Netconf plug-in implementation includes two modules.

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