The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the following sections, we’ll explore various strategies for achieving durable and accurate counts. Without an efficient data retention strategy, this approach may struggle to scale effectively. Additionally, we employ a bucketing strategy to prevent wide partitions. We hope you found this blog post insightful.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Such frameworks support software engineers in building highly scalable and efficient applications that process continuous data streams of massive volume. After failures, Kafka Streams’ partition assignment strategy, triggered by rebalances, causes its executions to accumulate more lag. This significantly increases event latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Although the adoption of serverless functions brings many benefits, including scalability, quick deployments, and updates, it also introduces visibility and monitoring challenges to CloudOps and DevOps. So please stay tuned! Why you need end-to-end observability for your AWS Lambda functions. Improved mapping and topology detection.

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. Are you running containerized applications on IBM Z?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2019

The Dynatrace platform automatically integrates OpenTelemetry data, thereby providing the highest possible scalability, enterprise manageability, seamless processing of data, and, most importantly the best analytics through Davis (our AI-driven analytics engine), and automation support available. What’s next?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. Retention : The status indicates which tables fall inside and outside of the retention window.

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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. On the other hand, in model-based anomaly detection approaches, models are built and used to detect anomalous incidents in a fairly automated manner.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. Below is an example workflow from this repo for a basic deployment strategy: The GitHub workflow first sets the Azure cluster credentials using the set context Action. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. This comprehensive view helps teams gain an initial understanding of a monolithic application so they can develop a migration strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Even within Netflix, we have many groups that do some form of data analysis, including business strategy and consumer insights. They’re still analysts at heart but, similar to data engineers, they have a deep understanding of data warehouse capabilities and are pros at data processing optimization and performance tuning.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

This talk will delve into the creative solutions Netflix deploys to manage this high-volume, real-time data requirement while balancing scalability and cost. If you are interested in attending a future Data Engineering Open Forum, we highly recommend you join our Google Group to stay tuned to event announcements. Until next time!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. These strategies help maintain system performance, reduce read overhead, and meet SLOs by minimizing the impact of deletes.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

One of the promises of container orchestration platforms is to make i t easier for the developers to accelerate the deployment of their app lication s without having to worry about scalability and infrastructure dependencies. In your monitoring strategy, you need to consider a comprehensive , single-pane of glass, approach: ? .

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 2021 set to be a new high for the number of data breaches , it was plainly evident that we needed to evolve how we approach our cloud infrastructure security strategy. We knew that given our scale, we needed to rely heavily on automations and that we needed to build our solutions using battle tested scalable infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. It inherits the automation, AI, scalability, and enterprise-grade robustness of the Dynatrace platform. Stay tuned – this is only the start.

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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. As part of our observability engineering strategy, we want that data as well and to make sure it gets sent to Dynatrace.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. The main advantages of distributed SQL databases are scalability and continuous operation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Yet as a platform, it is in no way considered a standalone environment, containing all the functionality needed for Cloud Native development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

We have to do it at Netflix’s scale: For hundreds of millions of users across hundreds of concurrent tests, spanning many deployment strategies from traditional A/B experiments, to evolving areas like quasi experiments. In the democratization of the experimentation platform we also want to allow custom analysis.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

The new Dynatrace AWS Lambda extension further improves enterprise-grade scalability with low memory overhead, effortless manageability, continuous automation, and granular access-permission controls that support the structures of cloud-native applications teams within large organizations. stay tuned?for functionality?in

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Sharded time-series collections for improved scalability and performance. Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? x: Live resharding of databases for uninterrupted sharded key changes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The complexity of these factors makes it difficult to determine the best creative strategy for upcoming titles. For many teams and titles, Stills are essential to Netflix’s promotional asset strategy. Each algorithm needed a process of evaluation and tuning to get great results in AVA Discovery View.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed. AutoOptimize relies on some of the Iceberg specific features such as snapshot and atomic operations to perform the optimizations in an accurate and scalable manner. AutoAnalyze In short, AutoAnalyze finds the best tuning/configuration parameters for a table.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

The software also extends capabilities allowing fine-tuning consumption parameters through QoS (Quality of Service) prefetch limits catered toward balancing load among numerous consumers, thus preventing overwhelming any single consumer entity. This scalability is essential for applications that experience fluctuating workloads.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

According to a 2023 Forrester survey commissioned by Hashicorp , 61% of respondents had implemented, were expanding, or were upgrading their multi-cloud strategy. Nearly every vendor at Kubecon and every person we spoke to had some form of a multi-cloud requirement or strategy. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration. Are you looking to enhance performance, improve scalability, cut expenses, or gain access to specific features you don’t currently have? Start by identifying the reasons driving the migration.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. Maestro is highly scalable and extensible to support existing and new use cases and offers enhanced usability to end users. There are three common issues that the dataset owners usually face.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Have you tuned your environment? To achieve this, a substantial commitment is necessary from your team to master effective testing strategies. Look for firms with a proven track record, positive client testimonials, and those that offer scalable solutions. What’s your plan to mitigate or minimize downtime?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

However, this strategy does not work for all databases. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks. Linkedin’s scalable consistent change data capture platform. Using database specific features. Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

However, this strategy does not work for all databases. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks. Linkedin’s scalable consistent change data capture platform. Using proprietary database features. Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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