O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. think in these terms: the smaller the service, the more you maximize the benefits and downsides of microservice architecture.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon. This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability.

Engineering 215

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. Ingest and process with Grail. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud.

Artificial Intelligence 272

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 224

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. It must be solid, firm.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. . – Agile.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. Neotys and T-Systems MMS are amongst the first companies to build extensions.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each subdomain is owned by a separate team.

Architecture 98

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. This is made possible through generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities. For organizations building business-centric SLOs, Aguiar had some recommendations. “If

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service? Architecture Putting this all together, below you can see a simplified view of the architecture. By transacting with a database which is monitored by a CDC connector that creates events, or b.

Engineering 263

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user.

Architecture 221

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Working within the time budget introduces an extra resource constraint for the recommender system. The evaluation process may include trying to recognize the show from its box art, watching trailers, reading its synopsis or in some cases reading reviews for the show on some external website.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. These range from the simple lift-and-shift re-hosting approach to the significant architectural changes involved in refactoring. “At one point, we saw a process that was causing a lot of CPU contention.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The general agreed-upon definition of. Data from all these sources is collected and analyzed by Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis, that’s built into the core of the platform (not bolted on) to drive intelligent and definitive problem identification and root-cause analysis. Legacy IT systems inhibit change while consuming budgets.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. Fact #2: No significant impact on Dynatrace Users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2021

However, Kim underlined there is no single definition of DevOps, referring to one of his earlier works, The DevOps Handbook , where the practice was described as “architectural practices, technical practices, and cultural norms that allow us to increase our ability to deliver applications and services quickly and safely.”.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 25, 2023

But what’s also clear is that the process of programming doesn’t become “ChatGPT, please build me an enterprise application to sell shoes.” In this post, Fowler describes the process Xu Hao (Thoughtworks’ Head of Technology for China) used to build part of an enterprise application with ChatGPT. That excitement is merited.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

IoT – Data processing on edge locations. It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud. AWS System Manager.

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These days, there’s been a lot of talk in the industry about setting up one’s database system on PostgreSQL. Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MYSQL: OS: Ubuntu 16.04 MySQL version 5.7

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. Dynatrace news. Cloud-native injection with admission controllers.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Here is the definition of this model: ?. In this visual, you can see the whole processing of Keptn deploying, testing, and evaluating performance tests against defined SLIs is automated.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Watch highlights covering the latest tools and techniques of software architecture. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2018. Experts from across the software architecture world came together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Defining software architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

delivering a large amount of business value in the process. Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. The Status-Quo Until very recently, Gatekeeper was a completely event-driven system. The team responsible for this curation is Title Operations.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets?

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Instead of relying on engineers to productionize scientific contributions, we’ve made a strategic bet to build an architecture that enables data scientists to easily contribute. It centralizes metrics definitions which used to be scattered across many teams. Getting Data with the Metrics Repo 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Introduction and account creation Highlight our value propositions and begin the account creation process.

Engineering 142

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. How do you make a system ‘observable’?

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