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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Combining the power of automation with version-controlled configurations lands us at GitOps – you describe the configuration of your system as a set of files that you process and apply in an environment. They allow us to easily create a primary key of a configuration that is unique in the system. Identifiers are great!

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this preview video for Dynatrace Perform 2022, I talk to Ajay Gandhi, VP of product marketing at Dynatrace, about how adding a vulnerability management strategy to your DevSecOps practices can be key to handling threats posed by vulnerabilities. ?. Why DevSecOps practices benefit from vulnerability management.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on vulnerability management for cloud application security: Today’s cloud apps with their fast innovation cycles and frequent use of open-source libraries must address a gap for runtime vulnerability management in production environments. Dynatrace news. Contextual insight.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A good Kubernetes SLO strategy helps teams manage and make containerized workloads more efficient. Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. Establishing SLOs for Kubernetes clusters can help organizations optimize resource utilization.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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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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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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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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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy. Operations analytics ensures IT systems perform as expected. Apache Spark.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

This blog will suggest five areas to consider and questions to ask when evaluating your existing vendors and their risk management strategies. Vendors take different testing and QA approaches, ranging from simple crash testing to newer strategies such as canary and blue-green. A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Dynatrace helps enhance your AI strategy with practical, actionable knowledge to maximize benefits while managing costs effectively. How to set up and instrument your data with OpenLLMetry Traceloop OpenLLMetry is an open source extension that standardizes LLM and Generative AI data collection.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

OpenTelemetry is an open source observability project that encompasses a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation standards. Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. What is OpenTelemetry? There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Having siloed systems that only provide visibility into one or two of these sources won’t result in an effective observability strategy. OpenTelemetry is an open source standard for gathering observability signals, including metrics, traces, and logs. 1: Observability is more of an attribute than a process

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread .

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Thinking about going multi-cloud?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Between multicloud environments, container-based architecture, and on-premises infrastructure running everything from the latest open-source technologies to legacy software, achieving situational awareness of your IT environment is getting harder to achieve. Getting adequate insight into an increasingly complex and dynamic landscape.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. Kubernetes deployments can be managed using a combination of both the open-source Azure Kubernetes set context Action and Kubernetes deployment GitHub Action. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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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. Is it exposed to the public Internet?

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. A case in point is Log4Shell, which emerged in late 2021 and exposed open source libraries to exploitation. Dynatrace introduces automatic vulnerability management for PHP open source scripting language – blog.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy. of PostgreSQL deployments were leveraging a multi-cloud strategy.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

Such insights include whether the system can effectively collect, analyze, and report this data. With greater visibility into systems’ states and a single source of analytical truth, teams can collaborate more efficiently. Greater system reliability and uptime improve user experiences. Improved user experiences.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. In fact, it can be difficult to make code changes that won’t disrupt the entire system. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated. Observability aims to interpret them all in real time.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. More than 70% of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey now consider IT automation to be a strategic component of their digital transformation strategies.

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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. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. Above all, companies modernize and adopt a multicloud strategy to innovate, scale, and increase efficiency. AIOps strategy central to proactive multicloud managemen t – blog.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Others involve introducing new threats as AI becomes more integrated into IT systems as a whole. In this article, we explore recent survey data from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), sponsored by Dynatrace, on how organizations approach IT automation, as well as the benefits and challenges they encounter as they adopt it.

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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. We buffer spans for a time period in order to collect all spans for a trace in the first job.

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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. Your key business objectives will drive your strategy and metrics. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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