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

APRIL 4, 2025

Journald provides unified structured logging for systems, services, and applications, eliminating the need for custom parsing for severity or details. Dynatrace Grail lets you focus on extracting insights rather than managing complex schemas or index and storage concepts.

Analytics 147

Analytics Operating System Scalability Infrastructure 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems. Unlike full backups that duplicate everything, incremental backups store only changes since the last save, reducing storage needs and speeding up recovery.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. The idea has been that a CDN has fast edge servers that cache content and deliver it based on the user’s geolocation. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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Cache Tuning Storage Website 305

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. AWS offers four serverless offerings for storage. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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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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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) 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. High Level Design. Architecture. Fetching User Feed.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

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DZone

JUNE 24, 2024

Objectives Modern AI innovations require proper infrastructure, especially concerning data throughput and storage capabilities. While GPUs drive faster results, legacy storage solutions often lag behind, causing inefficient resource utilization and extended times in completing the project.

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Systems Software Software Storage 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI requires more compute and storage. Training AI data is resource-intensive and costly, again, because of increased computational and storage requirements. AI performs frequent data transfers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system. Effectively managing this data at scale to extract valuable insights is crucial for ensuring optimal user experiences and system reliability.

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Serverless container services.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 297

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Limited visibility.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. The core component in Anna v11 is a monitoring system & policy engine that together enable workload-responsiveness and adaptability.

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Storage Performance AWS Media 199

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Organizations need to unify all this observability, business, and security data based on context and generate real-time insights to inform actions taken by automation systems, as well as business, development, operations, and security teams. Systems automatically generate logs, which record events that took place. Event severity.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 305

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Our monitoring coverage already includes ?

Technology 246

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 246

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. You can remotely access and navigate another database server. Easier access to files, features, and the operating system. Metadata search among rows in database system tables.

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Open Source Database Azure Servers 262

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Internet Internet Games Java 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Organizations can uncover critical insights about customers, track the health of complex systems, or view sales trends. Much of the data business analysts rely on is stored in proprietary systems, where it’s difficult to access and often stale. High storage costs. On one hand, more data potentially offers more value.

Analytics 246

Analytics Strategy Storage Technology 246

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

Storage 114

Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

Analytics 185

Analytics Database Storage Systems 185

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images. You can often do this using built-in apps on your operating system. This can result in a loss of revenue and reputation damage.

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage. Dynatrace support for AMP. Dynatrace now provides support for the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.

Technology 246

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

Artificial Intelligence 245

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 245

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 120

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Source code management systems are only accessible from within the Dynatrace corporate network. Every storage location involving data at rest is encrypted as well. These certificates are stored on physical devices which are plugged into specifically hardened build servers. No manual, error-prone steps are involved.

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Software Software Development AWS 289