The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure.

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

Best Practices 195

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 195

Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I took a big-data-analysis approach, which started with another problem visualization. I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. This is required for understanding how I intend to improve the efficiency of (manual) alert ticket handling.

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Tuning Architecture Monitoring Big Data 264

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. Over the years, the system expanded to support various new use cases.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Three pillars of observability converge with context and business data at the massive scale of Grail The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has always brought the full value of logs, metrics, and traces together with context and user data for AI-powered analysis. But logs are just one pillar of the observability triumvirate.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. Observability engineering success!

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. Improving the bitrate ladder that is generated after complexity analysis to choose points with greater intelligence than before.

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. So please stay tuned for updates. . What’s next.

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Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 261

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The many disaster scenarios and outcomes allow chaos engineers to better model what happens to applications and microservices, which gives them increasing intelligence to share with developers to perfect software and cloud-native infrastructure. The history of chaos engineering. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Utilizing the automatic dependency mapping functionality of the Dynatrace OneAgent, DevSecOps and SecOps teams gain real-time visibility into application and infrastructure architectures. And this poses a significant risk.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. This metric gauges the stability and efficiency of your DevOps processes. Watch webinar now!

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 206

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Lots of data intended to help and aid, but instead results in too much noise and unnecessary alerts due to the lack of intelligent root-cause analysis and transparency. Dynatrace Cloud Automation allows easy analysis of the status and impact a release has on your business or on test results in any environment. What’s next.

Cloud 171

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 171

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

To unlock these innovations we are making a strategic choice that our focus should be geared towards developing the surrounding infrastructure so that scientists’ work can be easily absorbed into the wider Netflix Experimentation Platform. In the democratization of the experimentation platform we also want to allow custom analysis.

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Engineering Design Innovation Java 174

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You don’t even have to know which technologies are running to get information beyond observability plus automatic anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Easily tie data to the application topology for deep analysis and to fuel the Davis AI engine. So please stay tuned for updates. .

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Software Software Technology Technology 146

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. of nonusers, 5.4%

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. Dynatrace not only automates instrumentation efforts, but also automates the analysis of distributed traces in a complete observability context, including related metrics and logs.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Mobile 214

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

In this benchmark, we measure MySQL throughput in terms of queries per second (QPS) to measure our query efficiency. Pricing is of course one of the most significant considerations when it comes to making an infrastructure investment. MySQL Configuration Management & Tuning. On-Demand Slow Query Analysis. Throughput.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. This rapid feedback enables developers to stay focused on innovation instead of managing infrastructure. Testing quality improves.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Video quality has matured in Cosmos and we are invested in making VQS more flexible and efficient. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. VQS currently represents the largest workload fueled by the Cosmos platform. Acknowledgments This work was made possible with the help of many stunning Netflix colleagues.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dynatrace combines RASP and observability for automatic and continuous analysis of applications, libraries, and code runtime in production and pre-production to detect, assess and manage vulnerabilities. One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Such a paradigm aspires to assist front-line operations personnel and stakeholders in “running the business”²; performing their tasks through means such as ad hoc analysis, decision-support, and tracking (of tasks, assets, schedules, etc). Please stay tuned! tactical) in nature. The audits check for equality (i.e. Dehghani, Zhamak.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. A common audience question was “can Hadoop run [my arbitrary analysis job or home-grown algorithm]?” You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Confidence for a safe release is provided by more validation of how the changes impact quality, for example, before deploying to production or with impact analysis during blue/green deployments. We are moving from static to very dynamic infrastructure and applications. Release decision making with Service-Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 154

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Those were the days when “connected” meant having some web presence, “interactions” were measured in number of clicks, and the analysis happened in batch overnight processes. The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. At least once? At most once?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The premium service purportedly provides ongoing threat analysis with no false positives. Retrace Retrace is a performance monitoring tool with an excellent error tracking feature to help you identify exceptions and address bugs quickly and efficiently.

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Development Open Source Java AWS 57

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. If you find you have a lot of users from other countries, then you need to make sure you have the infrastructure to support international visitors. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. For those interested in such things, the name of the invisible profiling operator used by the standard infrastructure is sqlmin!CQScanProfileNew.

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Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

SQL Performance

MARCH 5, 2020

Generally speaking, this means that the client side is not consuming the results efficiently, but based on the ensuing discussion I became intrigued enough to do some testing of whether or not an execution plan would actually impact the ASYNC_NETWORK_IO waits significantly.

Education 55

Education Servers Testing Tuning 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

It fundamentally helps you plan ahead to reduce risk and reach the destination in a more efficient and effective way. One major advantage of having a crew of this type is that you can have a shared strategy and work together toward a “north star” that meets internal and external needs — through ideation, analysis and collaboration.

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Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 93