The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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DZone

MARCH 29, 2023

Data migration is the process of moving data from one location to another, which is an essential aspect of cloud migration. Data migration involves transferring data from on-premise storage to the cloud. With the rapid adoption of cloud computing , businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud.

Best Practices 304

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. What is a data lakehouse? How does a data lakehouse work?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

While this approach can be effective if the model is trained with a large amount of data, even in the best-case scenarios, it amounts to an informed guess, rather than a certainty. But to be successful, data quality is critical. Teams need to ensure the data is accurate and correctly represents real-world scenarios. Consistency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimize cost and availability while staying compliant Observability data like logs and metrics provide automated answers, root cause detection, and security issues. Customer decisions about data retention are often determined by important security, privacy, and legal issues.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

ln a world driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, businesses increasingly turn to data-driven decision-making to stay agile. They’re unleashing the power of cloud-based analytics on large data sets to unlock the insights they and the business need to make smarter decisions. All of these factors challenge DevOps maturity.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

I have ingested important custom data into Dynatrace, critical to running my applications and making accurate business decisions… but can I trust the accuracy and reliability?” ” Welcome to the world of data observability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Predictive AI uses machine learning, data analysis, statistical models, and AI methods to predict anomalies, identify patterns, and create forecasts. This data-driven approach fosters continuous refinement of processes and systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. This contextualization of log data enables AI-powered problem detection and root cause analysis at scale. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work.

Storage 219

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Network traffic data aggregation and filtering for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. However, cloud infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Further, the delivery infrastructure that makes this happen has also become complex.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But IT teams need to embrace IT automation and new data storage models to benefit from modern clouds. As they enlist cloud models, organizations now confront increasing complexity and a data explosion. Data explosion hinders better data insight. Log management and analytics have become a particular challenge.

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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. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Visualize your synthetic monitor data.

Infrastructure 152

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 152

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But IT teams need to embrace IT automation and new data storage models to benefit from modern clouds. As they enlist cloud models, organizations now confront increasing complexity and a data explosion. Data explosion hinders better data insight. Log management and log analytics have become a particular challenge.

Cloud 147

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DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The ELK stack is an abbreviation for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, which offers the following capabilities: Elasticsearch: a scalable search and analytics engine with a log analytics tool and application-formed database, perfect for data-driven applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 8, 2020

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

Infrastructure 235

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. So how can organizations ensure data quality, reliability, and freshness for AI-driven answers and insights? And how can they take advantage of AI without incurring skyrocketing costs to store, manage, and query data?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

Anyone moving to the cloud knows that it isn’t just a change from running servers in your data center to running them in someone else’s data center. If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. Able to provide answers, not just data.

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Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

JAR) form to be executed as part of the user defined data pipeline. data pipeline ?—?a DAG) for the purpose of transforming data using some business logic. Netflix homegrown CLI tool for data pipeline management. task, an atomic unit of data transformation logic, a non-separable execution block in the workflow chain.

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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 on the Product Data Science and Engineering team.

Data Engineering 173

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

One of the promises of container orchestration platforms is to make i t easier for the developers to accelerate the deployment of their app lication s without having to worry about scalability and infrastructure dependencies. It is important to understand the impact infrastructure can have on the platform and the application it runs.

Infrastructure 194

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming data, accessing and working with data, and triggering automations.

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DZone

JUNE 4, 2019

NVMe Storage Use Cases. NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. There are several AI/ML focused use cases to highlight.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

Media 290

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

Analytics 179

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. Even for a supported component, delivering logs from applications and infrastructure to DevSecBizOps workflows requires significant manual configuration.

Open Source 192

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

Traffic 208

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 208

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. Once teams solidify infrastructure and application performance, security is the subsequent priority.

Analytics 193

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. An increasingly large fraction of data in modern workloads comes from less predictable and highly variable sources. joins) during query processing.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Challenges organizations face in using observability and security data to drive automation. With 85% of organizations facing challenges using observability and security data to drive problem remediation and DevOps automation [1] , overcoming the burden of siloed data is imperative. In-context topology identification.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure.

Virtualization 185

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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