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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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. But why stop there?

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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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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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Machine Configuration: Spinnaker Starting at the left of the chart, Spinnaker is an open-source platform that controls the creation of workstation pools. They could need a GPU when doing graphics-intensive work or extra large storage to handle file management. Spinnaker uses “pipelines” as instructions for creating the pools.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. Kube-ops-view provides read-only system dashboard. The backup files are stored in an object storage service (e.g. Kube-ops-view. It is a handy tool for SRE and Ops teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. The following sections describe our journey in building these components.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

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. Proactive protection, however, focuses on finding evidence of attacks before they compromise key systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit. Data related to monitoring is stored in RAM and LevelDB nevertheless data can be stored to other storage systems such as ElasticSearch, InfluxDb, and others, [link]. Watch out for your self-destructing apps!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Start using Grail now.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Linux System Mining with Python ( Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). Hacker News).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Organizations need to unify all this observability, business, and security data based on context and generate real-time insights to inform actions taken by automation systems, as well as business, development, operations, and security teams. You need data from myriad sources centralized to get the right context to power precise answers.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. The core component in Anna v11 is a monitoring system & policy engine that together enable workload-responsiveness and adaptability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Syncing with external data sources. Often times an external system is providing data as JSON, so it might be a temporary store before data is ingested into other parts of the system. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. What is your favorite project?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability was first reported to the Apache Foundation (an open-source project) on November 24 by security researcher Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, after an attack was documented on December 9 and affected servers of the game Minecraft. When was the vulnerability in the Log4j 2 library discovered?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. Dynatrace fully embraces OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

DevOps enables developers to rapidly and frequently release new features and services by using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , suites of collaboration tools, and version control practices, most often with the open source Git software at its core.

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DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The load testing for the database needs to be conducted usually so that the impact on the system can be monitored in different scenarios, such as query language rule optimization, storage engine parameter adjustment, etc. The operating system in this article is the x86 CentOS 7.8. Why Load Testing Matters in Nebula Graph?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems. Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Automate as much as possible.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. What is Prometheus?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts.

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