The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data?

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business and technology leaders are increasing their investments in AI to achieve business goals and improve operational efficiency. By packaging [these capabilities] into hypermodal AI, we are able to run deep custom analytics use cases in sixty seconds or less.” In this example, there is a suspicious increase in scripting events.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By analyzing patterns and trends, predictive analytics helps identify potential issues or opportunities, enabling proactive actions to prevent problems or capitalize on advantageous situations. Through predictive analytics, SREs and DevOps engineers can accurately forecast resource needs based on historical data.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

This, in turn, accelerates the need for businesses to implement the practice of software automation to improve and streamline processes. In what follows, we define software automation as well as software analytics and outline their importance. What is software analytics? What is software automation?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, organizations prioritized efficiency and cost reduction while facing soaring inflation. And a staggering 83% of respondents to a recent DevOps Digest survey have plans to adopt platform engineering or have already done so. 6: Platform engineering becomes mission-critical. Technology prediction No.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently? Note that unoptimized queries contribute to this by going over/processing more data than necessary, loading them into the caching structure, and often pushing hot data out of it. MySQL does.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Validation stage overview The validation stage is a crucial step in the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) process. Doing so reduces the risk of production disruptions and instills confidence in both SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) and end-users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. Improving data quality is a strategic process that involves all organizational members who create and use data. Another common impediment is manual data tagging and handling, an error-prone process that teams should minimize.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But to be scalable, they also need low-code/no-code solutions that don’t require a lot of spin-up or engineering expertise. All these tasks can take place seamlessly—ultimately resolving issues or identifying them proactively—and without needing to interrupt an engineer from a more strategic task.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Assuming the responsibility and taking the initiative to instill effective cybersecurity practices now will yield benefits in terms of enhanced productivity and efficiency for your organization in the future. This approach helps organizations deliver more secure software and infrastructure with greater efficiency and speed.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. This computational efficiency also reduces energy consumption, which in turn reduces carbon emissions. A PUE of 1.0

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You have to get automation and analytical capabilities.” Throw in behavioral analytics, metadata, and real-user data. … But it is also about process automation. For the latest news from Perform, check out our “ Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI.”

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Adding AIOps to automation processes makes the volume of data that applications and multicloud environments generate much less overwhelming.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries. Engineering teams will, therefore, always need to check the code they get from GPTs to ensure it doesn’t risk software reliability, performance, compliance, or security.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Strict fault-tolerance is a principal requirement for the engine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails By Sean Barnes, Studio Production Data Science & Engineering I am going to tell you a story about a person that works for Netflix. and to major in aerospace engineering. Pretty straightforward, right?!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Not only will they get much more out of the tools they use daily, but they’ll also be able to deliver superior functionality, efficiency, and performance to your customers. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This placement recognizes Dynatrace’s focus on customers and pushing the art of what’s possible in AI and automation as it’s applied to observability, security, and business analytics. The deterministic, causation-based AI engine, Davis , continuously analyzes dependencies, anomalies, and event sequences. What is trending in AIOps?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Dynatrace is a launch partner in support of AWS Lambda Response Streaming , a new capability enabling customers to improve the efficiency and performance of their Lambda functions. Lambda functions allow teams to run code for applications, back-end services, streaming processing, or any layer of the stack with less overhead.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the cloud network infrastructure to address the identified problems. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Logs and events play an essential role in this mix; they include critical information which can’t be found anywhere else, like details on transactions, processes, users and environment changes. Some solutions that use logs for troubleshooting only provide manual analytics to search for the root causes of issues.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Container orchestration is a process that automates the deployment and management of containerized applications and services at scale.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To provide customers with greater efficiency, simplicity and speed as they undergo digital transformation, our latest infrastructure monitoring module leverages the answers-first approach delivered by the AI and advanced automation capabilities at the core of our all-in-one Software Intelligence Platform. Next-gen Infrastructure Monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

When it comes to logs and metrics, the Dynatrace platform provides direct access to the log content of all mission-critical processes. Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. Check out our Power Demo: Log Analytics with Dynatrace. Why Dynatrace? This includes Transit Gateway.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

AI-powered precise answers and timely insights with ad-hoc analytics. Engineering teams often gravitate toward a 100% do-it-yourself approach, which is OK for experimentation and testing. With open standards, developers can take a Lego-like approach to application development, which makes delivery more efficient.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development. With AIOps , practitioners can apply automation to IT operations processes to get to the heart of problems in their infrastructure, applications and code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

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