The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company did a postmortem on its monitoring strategy and realized it came up short. We’ve automated many of our ops processes to ensure proactive responses to issues like increases in demand, degradations in user experience, and unexpected changes in behavior,” one customer indicated. It was the longest 90 seconds of my life.

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Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 246

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Improved Vacuuming: A redesigned memory structure lowers resource use and speeds up the vacuum process. JSON_QUERY extracts JSON fragments based on query conditions.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

Traditional deployment techniques that roll out updates or patches directly into full production can present significant risks and lead to potential downtime. By implementing these strategies, organizations can minimize the impact of potential failures and ensure a smoother transition for users.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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DZone

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Any development process must include the deployment of new software versions or features. It does, however, present risks and uncertainties, making it a daunting task. The user experience and system disruption caused by new releases are things that organizations work to prevent. Canary releases become important at this point.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. So, what is IT automation?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. predict and prevent security breaches and outages. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 295

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination. Implementing a robust monitoring and observability strategy has become the foundation of an organization’s ability to improve business resiliency and stay in control of their critical IT environments.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Proactive workforce members are acclimating to these fluid conditions through a variety of strategies, such as career “zigzagging” (a less linear career path that involves diverse roles), career upskilling, and mentoring. This strategy is becoming essential to thrive in the future of work. I said, ‘Elevate me, work with me.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 What happens when we adjust our compression strategy? The former makes for a simpler build step, but is it faster?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Selecting the right tool plays an important role in managing your strategy correctly while ensuring optimal performance across all clusters or singularly monitored redistributions. It provides detailed information about memory utilization as well as presenting visual representations of CPU consumption with little effort required from users.

Strategy 130

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

This traditional approach presents key performance metrics in an isolated and static way, providing little or no insight into the business impact or progress toward the goals systems support. Often, these metrics are unable to even identify trends from past to present, never mind helping teams to predict future trends.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Enterprise cloud security is vital due to increased cloud adoption and the significant financial and reputational risks associated with security breaches; a multilayered security strategy that includes encryption, access management, and compliance is essential.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. Data Featurization A complete list of features used in this work is presented in Table 1. The features mainly belong to two distinct classes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This limitation highlights the importance of continuous innovation and adaptation in IT operations and AIOps strategies. With the latest release, we drive this further by improving the automatic connection of relevant log and trace data for further drill down, presenting the full context of an issue in a single view.

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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 Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2022

Michael touched on the opportunity Application Security presents for the next year and the importance this holds when delivering solutions in the wake of Log4j and other vulnerabilities, but you can find out all the details on that in our breakout sessions. Accelerating partner growth. Next on Mainstage was Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Our partner community plays a vital role in facilitating this transition by effectively communicating the benefits of SaaS and ensuring a seamless migration process. Dynatrace SaaS presents a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enabling customers to consolidate various tools, thereby optimizing costs and enhancing internal user experiences.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This intricate allocation strategy can be categorized into two main domains. In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Streamlining the CI/CD process to ensure optimal efficiency.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Selecting the right tool plays an important role in managing your strategy correctly while ensuring optimal performance across all clusters or singularly monitored redistributions. It provides detailed information about memory utilization as well as presenting visual representations of CPU consumption with little effort required from users.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Organizations that have transitioned to agile software development strategies (including the adoption of a DevOps culture and continuous delivery automation) enforce automated solutions for such decision making—or at the very least, use automation in the gathering of a release-quality metrics. Each entry represents a process group instance.

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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. This significantly increases event latency.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Static site generators have several strategies to address long build times , including build caching, incremental builds, dynamic persistent rendering, and website sharding. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

“It was an iterative process allowing us to reflect on the past, present, and future of Dynatrace, discuss our findings, and explore the results received in the employee experience discovery.” ” Dynatrace CEO, Rick McConnell Now, our refreshed Dynatrace Core Values are established. Stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI. Therefore, these organizations need an in-depth strategy for handling data that AI models ingest, so teams can build AI platforms with security in mind.

Artificial Intelligence 264

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Further, legacy custom-developed apps were not built to meet the present-day user experience that HHS clients and partners expect. It’s practically impossible for teams to modernize when they can’t visualize all the dependencies within their infrastructure, processes, and services.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2020

The basic premise of AIOps is: Automatically monitor and analyze large sets of data across applications, logs, hosts, services, networks, meta, and processes through to end users and outcomes. Automatically baseline performance and present findings on what can be improved. Create a topology of how everything is interconnected.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience. These retail-business processes must work together efficiently to orchestrate customer satisfaction: Inventory management ensures you can anticipate and meet dynamic customer demand.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Finding a balance between complexity and impact must be a priority for organizations that adopt AI strategies.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Setting aside APRA’s mandate and the heavy fines and penalties of non-compliance – it’s in companies’ best interests to undergo the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risk within the business. Organisations typically waste valuable time discussing and deciding the right strategy for hunting down the problem.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 24, 2020

They often require painstaking manual processes to piece together an accurate picture and pinpoint the source of a problem. Traditional monitoring and siloed observability tools put the burden on these teams to manually troubleshoot performance issues, whereas an AI-driven approach simply presents them with the answers they need.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It’s no surprise, then, that financial services companies have adapted their competitive strategies to emphasize customer experience over product and usability over location through the use of business observability. In fact, more than half of US consumers rely on three or more banking apps, and industry churn rates are at an all-time high.

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