DZone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This is particularly relevant in the domain of reimbursement calculation systems. The Monolithic Challenge Imagine a scenario where you have a large-scale, monolithic system - possibly a bulky C# console application or an extensive SQL Server stored procedure.

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DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps , the ability to gain deep insights into system behavior, diagnose issues, and improve overall performance is one of the top priorities. Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Other data sources, including APIs and log files — are used to expand access, often to external or proprietary systems. Dynatrace OpenPipeline is a new stream processing technology that ingests and contextualizes data from any source.

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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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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

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

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

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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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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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

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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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Dynatrace transforms this unstructured data into a strategic advantage, processing it automatically—no manual tagging required. By automating root-cause analysis, TD Bank reduced incidents, speeding up resolution times and maintaining system reliability. With over 2.5 The result?

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. Why manual alerting falls short As your product and deployments scale horizontally and vertically, the sheer volume of data makes it impossible for teams to catch every error quickly using manual processes.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

API resilience is about creating systems that can recover gracefully from disruptions, such as network outages or sudden traffic spikes, ensuring they remain reliable and secure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems. However, it often introduces new challenges in the process.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. This is crucial because middleware often serves as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, handling a high volume of requests and data processing tasks.

Database 222

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform. Real-time customer experience remediation identifies and informs the organization about any issues and prevents them in the experience process sooner.

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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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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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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

MARCH 19, 2025

Heres more about the VMware security advisory and how you can quickly find affected systems using Dynatrace so you canautomate remediation efforts. With a TOCTOU vulnerability, an attacker can manipulate a system between the time a resource’s state is checked and when it’s used, also known as a race condition.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Static Threshold: This approach defines a fixed threshold suitable for well-known processes or when specific threshold values are critical.

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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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Retaining multiple tools generates huge volumes of alerts for analysis and action, slowing down the remediation and risk mitigation processes. In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial. It refocuses resources on high-value tasks rather than managing legacy tools.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In a single view, developers get an instant overview of application performance, system health, logs, problems, deployment status, user interactions, and much more. As every developer knows, logs are crucial for uncovering insights and detecting fundamental flaws, such as process crashes or exceptions.

Development 235

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This process involves: Identifying Stakeholders: Determine who is impacted by the issue and whose input is crucial for a successful resolution. In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. And how did we arrive at thispoint?

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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 22, 2025

Enhanced observability and release validation Dynatrace already excels at delivering full-stack, end-to-end observability of your systems and user journeys. By integrating Dynatrace with GitHub Actions, you can proactively monitor for potential issues or slowdowns in the deployment processes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Protect data in multi-tenant architectures To bring you the most value by unifying observability and security in one analytics and automation platform powered by AI, Dynatrace SaaS leverages a multitenancy architecture, enabling efficient and scalable data ingestion, querying, and processing on shared infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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