The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

All the above commands are very likely to be described in separate future blog posts, but right now let’s focus on the dataflow sample command. Having a well-defined set of defaults for data pipeline creation across Netflix makes onboarding easier, provides standardization and centralization best practices.

Best Practices 358

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 358

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. In our next blog post in this series, we’ll delve into the step-by-step process of automating the release pipeline using Dynatrace best practices.

Engineering 232

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 232

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Building on DevOps culture and practices, it integrates security into every step of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). DevSecOps presents organizations that are already practicing DevOps with an alternate, more proactive perspective on security. DevSecOps is short for development, security, and operations.

DevOps 213

DevOps Cloud Best Practices Open Source 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. The post AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Azure 218

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Mobile applications can present big revenue opportunities when executed with customer experience in mind. Best practices for improving mobile app performance using mobile analytics. This organization established four best practices for improving mobile app performance: Review dashboards daily to monitor KPI trends.

Mobile 217

Mobile Analytics Best Practices Software Engineering 217

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

In this way, Davis can link defined SLOs to those anomalies that present potential negative impact. We offer a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain; simply choose one of the predefined SLO templates that Dynatrace provides out-of-the-box.

Best Practices 162

Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 162

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2022

Michael touched on the opportunity Application Security presents for the next year and the importance this holds when delivering solutions in the wake of Log4j and other vulnerabilities, but you can find out all the details on that in our breakout sessions. Accelerating partner growth. Next on Mainstage was Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell.

Strategy 171

Strategy Programming Cloud Best Practices 171

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Data visualization : how to present, explore and interpret observability data from serverless functions intuitively, clearly, and holistically? What are serverless applications? and GoLang to reduce the necessary boilerplate code to a minimum.

Serverless 213

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Automation presents a solution. This approach was presented virtually in the on-demand observability clinic, Getting Started with Observability-Driven DevOps and SRE Automation. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain.

DevOps 224

DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 224

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. This implies that when the status is unfavorable, implementing sophisticated alerting methods like error budget burn rate alerting presents challenges and is therefore not applicable.

Efficiency 230

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 230

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Dynatrace has implemented several specific security controls and uses industry best practices to protect Dynatrace software components like OneAgent, ActiveGate, and Dynatrace Cluster installation packages from malicious manipulation by attackers on the way to our customers’ infrastructure.

Software 239

Software Software Development AWS 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you want to learn more check out the blog from Michael Kopp on Analyze microservice-based metrics without code changes or watch my YouTube Tutorial on Calculated Service Metrics. Request attributes can be used for multi-dimensional analysis as shown earlier in the blog. Step 1: Identify the context data.

Performance 152

Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 152

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn presents a declarative way to define orchestration so that developers can create automation sequences based on what should happen for delivery, remediation, and testing. Keptn includes best practices that help developers choose which sequences to use. The process is error-prone, manual, and doesn’t scale.

Open Source 193

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 193

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“Organizations need to prepare for both expected and unexpected demand, not only for the services that their customers and users rely on today but for the services being developed for tomorrow,” he wrote in a blog on Black Friday traffic. Black Friday 2022 may present its own challenges, from IT performance problems to cyberthreats.

Traffic 197

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 197

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing. With Dynatrace Cloud Automation and synthetic monitors, SREs can now rely on continuous validation of SLOs, presentation of the root cause when validation fails, and automatic problem remediation.

Monitoring 206

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering is a constantly evolving discipline, presenting opportunities to build methods, policies, and processes into the delivery pipeline that allow applications to “auto-remediate,” or for users to solve their own problems. SRE drives a “shift left” mindset. Solving for SR.

Engineering 257

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2024

ITIL defines consistent, repeatable processes rooted in “best practices”. As long as IT staff follow ITIL consistent processes, IT can’t be blamed for any outcome that resulted from its activity: they were, after all, following established “best practices.” The net effect is that ITIL defines governance as “compliance”.

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Government Best Practices Google Software 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. Watch the full Perform 2021 presentation from Logan Franey and Dominik Punz using the local links below.

Mobile 170

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 170

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In this way, the security agent can avoid the problem of false positives triggered by vulnerable libraries that are present but not used by the application, or not used in a certain manner that exposes a vulnerability. Best practices for container security. Pretty neat, isn’t it?

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

In this blog, I’ll first cover the basics, explaining what web application security is and why it’s important. Before one can design an optimal security approach, it helps to understand what kinds of vulnerabilities are commonly present in web applications. Most common vulnerabilities commonly present in web applications.

Open Source 183

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. Migration instructions are available in Dynatrace Documentation.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 322

Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This blog is regarding some of the usual MySQL database conversations and responses, which can appear “wrong” or “funny,” but there’s actually more to them. Additional read Mike’s blog on How to Find and Tune a Slow SQL Query Q: What is your disaster recovery (DR) strategy?

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Strategy Database Best Practices Tuning 76

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In Part 1 of this blog series – Getting ready! A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. This blog, Part 2, we’ll be doing the same for sessions 5 – 7.

DevOps 103

DevOps Software Software Best Practices 103

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering is a constantly evolving discipline, presenting opportunities to build methods, policies, and processes into the delivery pipeline that allow applications to “auto-remediate,” or for users to solve their own problems. SRE drives a “shift left” mindset. Solving for SR.

Engineering 181

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 181

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. The figure below presents a historical retrospective of the soft error problem as a timeline. Here, history can be a guide.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

So, in this blog, I’ll share how to create and use Jenkins shared libraries to provide an easy way to integrate Jenkins pipelines, to Dynatrace using Dynatrace’s Application Programming Interface (API). . #2 All the code referenced in this blog is open-source so that you can re-use and contribute back your improvements.

Software 144

Software Software DevOps Open Source 144

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the aftermath Ryan Sleevi wrote a really great blog post not just about the issue of this one certificate’s expiry, but the problem that so many TLS implementations have in general with certificate path building. If you haven’t read that blog post, you should. The sender’s certificate MUST come first in the list.

Servers 165

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 165

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Christian Heckelmann , Senior Systems Engineer at ERT, inspired me to write this blog when he brought up this topic in a conversation a couple of weeks back. Christian is co-presenting in my Release Better Software Faster Track on the topic Build resiliency into your continuous delivery pipeline with AI and automation.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Best Practices Testing Network 148

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

In this blog post, we present benefits of applying the above-mentioned optimizations to standard dynamic range (SDR) 10-bit and 4K streams (some titles are also HFR). As for VMAF score computation, for encoding resolutions less than 4K, we follow the VMAF best practice to upscale to 4K assuming bicubic upsampling.

Network 330

Network Storage Innovation Mobile 330

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to set up a build environment for compiling your own MySQL plugin to be loaded into MySQL as a function. You can build within the extracted source tree, but this goes against best practices. MySQL Loadable Functions would be the way to go. Or blinking an LED ?

C++ 79

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 79

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

If security concerns are driving you to review your approach to development, you’re likely weighing DevOps vs DevSecOps, and considering how to incorporate security practices into your software delivery workflows, to protect your users and your business. Why application security measures are failing.

DevOps 158

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 158

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So while I have retired from corporate life, I have ideas to share, as an analyst and presenter, and needed a framework to support consulting and analysis work. Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Best practices for delivering excellent digital experiences. No technology, tool, or practice can accomplish this for you. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Break down silos. Great digital experiences require the right culture and mindset. Challenges of digital experience monitoring. Watch webinar now!

Mobile 222

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 222