The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microservices architecture has revolutionized modern software development, offering unparalleled agility, scalability , and maintainability. However, effectively implementing microservices necessitates a deep understanding of best practices to harness their full potential while avoiding common pitfalls.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Having a diverse payment system is crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, to leverage local payment methods, and to maintain control over costs. But as your application's market reach grows, so does the necessity for flexible and diverse payment options.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever. Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Horizontally scalable data stores like Elasticsearch , Cassandra , and CockroachDB distribute their data across multiple nodes using techniques like consistent hashing. As nodes are added or removed, the data is reshuffled to ensure that the load is spread evenly across the new set of nodes.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In today's digital landscape, it's not just about building functional systems; it's about creating systems that scale smoothly and efficiently under demanding loads. But as many developers and architects can attest, scalability often comes with its own unique set of challenges.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The power of cloud observability Modernizing legacy systems can be challenging, and it’s important to do so with purpose—not just to modernize for its own sake. “It’s not the big that will eat the small, it’s the fast that will conquer the slow.” – Jay Snyder, SVP of Partners and Alliances at Dynatrace.

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DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

The goal is to help developers, technical managers, and business owners understand the importance of API performance optimization and how they can improve the speed, scalability, and reliability of their APIs. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot Overview One of the most popular Java EE frameworks for creating apps is Spring.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices. In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This thoughtful approach doesnt just address immediate hurdles; it builds the resilience and scalability needed for the future. In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. Lets explore how this mindset drivesresults.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. Dynatrace news. This is great!

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DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Global corporations with offices in multiple countries need to ensure that their internal systems are accessible to all employees, regardless of their location. A prominent solution is virtual machines, however, this is inadequate for customers who deploy their systems with Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. The post Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability appeared first on Dynatrace blog. This approach is costly and error prone.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By automating root-cause analysis, TD Bank reduced incidents, speeding up resolution times and maintaining system reliability. To improve this, they turned to Dynatrace for AI-driven automation to accelerate problem detection and resolution. The result? This ability to innovate faster has given TD Bank a competitive edge in a complex market.

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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. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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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). It also supports scalability, making it suitable for organizations of all sizes. High flexibility , adapting to dynamic environments and diverse user needs.

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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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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2025

Observability has become a key component in software development as it enables the best customer experience by ensuring system health and performance and detecting systemic issues proactively. OpenSearch simplifies this by providing an open-source, scalable solution for logging, metrics, and visualization.

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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 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.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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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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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system. Created by Grafana Labs in 2018, Loki has rapidly emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional logging systems, particularly for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. It is designed for simplicity and cost-efficiency.

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DZone

JULY 25, 2023

On top of the system was a book focused on using dBase II. For more: Read the Report Back in 1986, I relocated to Boulder, CO, to work for my uncle's start-up company. When we arrived at the office that first day, he helped me to a nearby desk supporting a Compaq Portable computer.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics. Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale.

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DZone

JUNE 7, 2023

ERP systems are crucial in modern software development because they integrate various organizational departments and functions. ERP systems offer standardized processes, enabling developers to accelerate development cycles and align with industry best practices.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Maintaining reliability and scalability requires a good grasp of resource management; predicting future demands helps prevent resource shortages, avoid over-provisioning, and maintain cost efficiency. Forecasting can identify potential anomalies in node performance, helping to prevent issues before they impact the system.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you need typically used failure-rate or response-time metrics to ensure your system’s availability and performance or if you need to rely on abnormal log drops to gain insights into raising problems—SLOs leveraged with Grail provide all the information you need.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In the changing world of data centers and cloud computing, the desire for efficient, flexible, and scalable networking solutions has resulted in the broad use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Traditional networking models have a tightly integrated control plane and data plane within network devices.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API. However, the binding approach lacked in the areas of durability and scalability, and more importantly, could not be combined with other Dapr APIs. Prior to v1.14

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