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.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Key benefits and strategies include: Real-Time Monitoring: Observability endpoints enable real-time monitoring of system performance and title placements, allowing us to detect and address issues as theyarise. Stay tuned for a closer look at the innovation behind thescenes!

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SQL Performance

MARCH 26, 2020

A performance tuning engagement can end up taking many turns as you work through it – it all depends on what is showing up as the problem and what the data tells you. One of my favorite parts of tuning is working with indexes and, as I was thinking about this post, I was tempted to label index tuning as an "easier" task… but it really isn't.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Creating a sound IT automation strategy. So, what is IT automation? What is IT automation?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This blog post dissects the vulnerability, explains how Struts processes file uploads, details the exploit mechanics, and outlines mitigation strategies. Stay tuned as we dive into the details of upcoming vulnerabilities. Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0 and later, where the legacy class is fully removed.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. They can be mirrored and configured for either availability or consistency, providing different strategies for managing network partitions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

After failures, Kafka Streams’ partition assignment strategy, triggered by rebalances, causes its executions to accumulate more lag. From the Kafka Streams community, one of the configurations mostly tuned in production is adding standby replicas. The performance gains achieved with the Kafka Streams tuning approach are paramount.

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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

APRIL 23, 2024

The Dynatrace data-centric approach ensures compliance isn’t a burden; it’s an opportunity to fine-tune operations. Customer feedback shapes our compliance strategy. Instead of waiting for January 2025 to engage with customers, we’re already engaging with CISOs, CIOs, risk managers, and compliance officers.

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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

MARCH 4, 2020

Dynatrace introduced Session Replay some time ago to help modernize your DEM strategy. Data masking rules enable you to fine-tune and customize masking to protect any sensitive data that may be captured by your applications. Stay tuned and watch this space for upcoming announcements! Dynatrace news.

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DZone

AUGUST 8, 2023

In an effort to reduce cloud hosting costs, recently, Uber tuned their garbage collection to reduce CPU utilization. In this article, we delve into five effective strategies that can help alleviate this concern, enabling developers to optimize application performance and mitigate the impact on hosting expenses.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With its exchange feature, RabbitMQ enables advanced routing strategies, making it well-suited for workflows that require controlled message flow and guaranteed delivery. Optimizing RabbitMQ requires clustering, queue management, and resource tuning to maintain stability and efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. Doing this safely for 100s of millions of customers without disruption is exceptionally challenging, especially considering the many dimensions of change involved.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. The way it is consumed is through regular storage classes and deserves a separate blog post.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Dynatrace helps enhance your AI strategy with practical, actionable knowledge to maximize benefits while managing costs effectively. It provides an easy way to select, integrate, and customize foundation models with enterprise data using techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, or continued pre-training.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This additional insight enables you to design strategies for handling the effects of cold starts, like warming up your functions or configuring provisioned concurrency for your functions. So please stay tuned! For each individual invocation, the Dynatrace Lambda extension automatically detects when a function is cold started.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Filter by metric dimensions and then choose Auto-adaptive baseline as your monitoring strategy: Both monitoring strategies (static and adaptive baselines) offer a convenient alert preview that allows you to review the potential number of alerts when using the given settings. Triggers an alert without causation and Davis AI involvement.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Operations refers to the processes of managing software functionality throughout its delivery and use life cycle, including monitoring system performance, repairing defects, testing after updates and changes, and tuning the software release system.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service. What’s next?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to his career as a bestselling author, Pelson has served as a vice president at Lucent Technologies and chief of convergence strategy for British Telecom. Tune in to the full episode for more insights from author and tech executive Jon Pelson. privacy and national security. They’re providing it to compromise the U.S.,

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2019

Dynatrace OneAgent will provide code-level insights that are essential for production debugging and performance tuning. If you’re a Dynatrace customer who is using OpenTracing or OpenCensus, we invite you to reach out to us to discuss the details of our OpenTelemetry strategy. What’s next?

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Strategically handle end-to-end data deletion Two key elements form the backbone of an effective deletion strategy in Dynatrace SaaS data management: retention-based and on-demand deletion. Check our Privacy Rights documentation to stay tuned to our continuous improvements. See documentation for Record deletion in Grail via API.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

For this, we designed and kicked off a Values Adoption Strategy, which includes four steps—Awareness, Comprehension, Application, and Ownership. Stay tuned. This will ensure that our long-standing culture is not only explicit for new team members to embrace but also one that builds on itself as we move forward.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

OpenTelemetry provides [extensive documentation]([link] and examples to help you fine-tune your configuration for maximum effectiveness. OpenTelemetry can complement and extend your existing observability tools to ensure a unified and effective strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Encoding Technologies teamed up with Performance Engineering to analyze the CPU usage pattern of AV1 encoding and based on our findings, Performance Engineering recommended an improved CPU scheduling strategy. Stay tuned!

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

TimeSeries Abstraction The TimeSeries Abstraction was developed to meet these requirements, built around the following core design principles: Partitioned Data : Data is partitioned using a unique temporal partitioning strategy combined with an event bucketing approach to efficiently manage bursty workloads and streamline queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These strategies help maintain system performance, reduce read overhead, and meet SLOs by minimizing the impact of deletes. A future blog post will describe the chunking architecture in more detail, including its intricacies and optimization strategies. This technique maintains read pagination protections.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Getting hybrid workplace strategies right and ensuring substantive connections across global teams will be critically important in driving innovation and growth. IAI can enhance the processes that nurture employee experiences and a healthy and motivated workforce. Prediction for 2024 No.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

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. To help answer these questions, Dynatrace uses built-in version detection strategies to support different technology standards for versioning.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. Migrating Persistent Stores Stateful APIs pose unique challenges that require different strategies. This alternate migration strategy has proven effective for our systems that meet certain criteria.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Multi-database type use has exploded over the past decade, compared to the traditional strategy of throwing all of your eggs in one basket. Other category, including migrations, queries, comparing, tuning, and replication. Single Database vs. Multi-Database Use. How much so? SQL + NoSQL Database Use: 75.6%.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid for PostgreSQL is architectured to leverage-high performance SSD disks on DigitalOcean, and is finely tuned and optimized to achieve the best performance on DigitalOcean infrastructure. Replication Strategies. PostgreSQL Configuration Management & Tuning. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Supported PostgreSQL Versions.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Adopting tools with high levels of automation can help reduce the learning curve. This number will likely increase as the SRE discipline matures.

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