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?

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. What are the key advantages of DBMS?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Modern IT organizations are generating more data from more tools and technologies than ever. Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. However, they had numerous custom applications with separate APIs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Through the RUM data, Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis, detected seven users were impacted by the outage when they tried to access the Web Interface. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. In our case that includes the login to our SaaS tenants and exploring captured data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. It's midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times, currently serving as the "situation room." During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2023

Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

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DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

It simplifies configuration and management, offering powerful tools to handle traffic flows between services, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data, all without requiring changes to microservice code.

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DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” I’ve called out the data field’s rebranding efforts before; but even then, I acknowledged that these weren’t just new coats of paint. Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” Goodbye, Hadoop.

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, uses Envoy as its data plane. This is where Aperture comes in.

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InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. These could include issues with vulnerable and outdated components, injections, and software and data integrity failures.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Instead, Redis stores data in data structures which makes it very flexible to use. Data Structures in Redis.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data. According to 2022 data, 78% of companies plan to increase spending on network visibility tools over the next two years, according to Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Dynatrace automatically detects and connects monitored services and web applications, considers synthetic data in AI-powered answers by Davis, and even lets you drill down from a synthetic transaction to code-level if necessary. Easily integrate Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics data into Dynatrace. This blog post explains how to do this.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Data suggests that organizations are quite concerned about the role of AI in making responsible, well-informed decisions. It can be difficult to understand the basis of AI systems’ decisions, particularly when they are trained on large and complex data sets. Unauthorized usage of data for AI. Trusted data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. a contiguous chunk of data (typically 64 bytes on x86 systems) transferred to and from the cache.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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