The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of database sharding, enabling you to implement it effectively in your systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A business process is a collection of related, usually structured tasks or steps, performed in sequence, that achieve a defined business goal. Tasks may be manual or automatic, and many business processes will include a combination of both. Make better decisions by providing managers with real-time data about the business.

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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With businesses constantly in the race to stay ahead, the process of integrating this data becomes crucial. However, it's no longer enough to assimilate data in isolated, batch-oriented processes. Businesses were content with accumulating data over defined intervals and then processing it in scheduled batches.

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DZone

JUNE 5, 2024

Batch processing is a capability of App Connect that facilitates the extraction and processing of large amounts of data. Sometimes referred to as data copy , batch processing allows you to author and run flows that retrieve batches of records from a source, manipulate the records, and then load them into a target system.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. These measures are especially important for high-frequency trading systems, where split-second decisions on buying and selling stocks must be made.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Using open-source technology is a good idea when dealing with Automated Clearing House (ACH) batch processing, the primary system that agencies use for electronic funds transfer (EFT).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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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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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the ever-changing realm of modern business practices, ensuring the successful execution of batch jobs is vital for activities like data processing, system upkeep, and the general workflow of the organization. A groundbreaking approach, as outlined in innovation – Patent US1036596B1 , has been introduced to address this challenge.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. asc | fields `Host`, `Recently Restarted?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

User provides a sample image to find other similar images Prior engineering work Approach #1: on-demand batch processing Our first approach to surface these innovations was a tool to trigger these algorithms on-demand and on a per-show basis. Processing took several hours to complete. Maintaining disparate systems posed a challenge.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples.

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2024

if you wanted to schedule a job, you could use the Cron binding component to implement recurring jobs on a regular defined schedule; for example, automating database backups, sending out recurring email notifications, running routine maintenance tasks, data processing, and ETL, running system updates and batch processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. To streamline this process, we standardized media assets with pre-processing steps that create and store dedicated quality-controlled derivatives with associated snapshotted metadata.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Windows Events logs record many different operating system processes, application activity, and account activity. We will be shipping Windows Event logs to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops. You can find out more on the GitHub page here. What Signals Matter? Some relevant log types you will want to monitor include:

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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DZone

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building performant services and systems is at the core of every business. Growing organizations, in the process of upscaling their services, unintentionally introduce complexities into the system. Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Mainframe architecture refers to the design and structure of a mainframe computer system, which is a powerful and reliable computing platform used for large-scale data processing, transaction processing, and enterprise applications.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2023

The core concept is essentially the same, having pieces of the whole system completely independent one from the other and running each in its own process. Their peculiarity is that their communications are based essentially on REST and messaging protocols, which have the advantage of being widely spread standards.

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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. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Each data point in a system that produces data on an ongoing basis corresponds to an Event. Event Stream Processing refers to the action taken on generated Events. Event Streams are described as a continuous flow of events or data points.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The appeal of building a system that's inherently designed to grow and adapt as the startup evolves is undeniable. Microservices promise a distributed architecture where each service runs its unique process and communicates through a well-defined, lightweight mechanism.

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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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DZone

JUNE 6, 2023

Sometimes, it is necessary to examine the behavior of a system to determine which process has utilized its resources, such as memory or CPU time. These resources are often scarce and may not be easily replenished, making it important for the system to record its status in a file. This is atop.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s a go-to database for many projects dealing with Online Transaction Processing systems. How It All Started Historically, we focused on two distinct database workflows: Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). PostgreSQL is one of the most popular SQL databases.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Streaming Data Model. Optimization.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Almost every software development process involves secrets: credentials for your developers to access your version control system (VCS) like GitHub, credentials for a microservice to access a database, and credentials for your CI/CD system to push new artifacts to production.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Ensuring high availability in PostgreSQL involves implementing automatic failover, a critical process that maintains database operability and preserves data accessibility when unexpected failures occur. In the event of a primary server failure, standby servers are prepared to assume control, which helps reduce system downtime.

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