The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

DZone

JULY 3, 2023

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. IaC enables treating infrastructure setups as version-controlled code, allowing for automated provisioning, deployment, and configuration management.

Data Engineering 141

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner.

Infrastructure 170

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 170

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 178

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 178

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Simplify SAP HANA performance monitoring and analysis. Captured metrics include infrastructure measures (CPU, Disk, and Network metrics) as well as details related to Backups, Savepoints, Replication, and more. All metrics are analyzed for anomalies and used as input for automated problem analysis by the Davis AI.

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DZone

APRIL 19, 2019

Network monitoring, at scale, is an age-old problem in IT. In this post, I’ll discuss a brief history of network monitoring tools — including the pain points of legacy technology when it came to monitoring thousands of devices — and share my modern-day solution using Sensu Go and Ansible.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce that with Dynatrace version 1.198, we’ve dramatically improved CPU analysis, allowing you to easily understand CPU consumption over time, in the context of your workloads. All deeper analysis actions are performed across the entire timeframe. Easily identify and analyze your most impacting workloads.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Effortlessly analyze IBM i Performance with the new Dynatrace extension Dynatrace has created a new version of its popular extension that is faster, offers better interactive pages, and includes more metrics, metadata, and analytics without having to install anything on your mainframe infrastructure. It’s all monitored remotely !

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

To address this, many states apply for federal funding to build a security operations center to proactively defend against the growing rate of cybersecurity threats and ensure the resilience of digital infrastructure. What is a security operations center? Successful observability is actionable.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Davis provides automatic anomaly detection and root-cause analysis, precisely pinpointing performance and security issues and enabling the automatic generation of detailed tickets with automatic routing to the appropriate team. Infrastructure monitoring mode offers the same capabilities except tracing and profiling.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Challenges with running Hyper-V Working with Hyper-V can come with several challenges.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 23, 2021

This is where email infrastructure comes in handy. While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. Email infrastructure usually consists of your server and domain configuration, server performance, IP address, mail agents, and more. Mail Agent.

Infrastructure 98

Infrastructure Monitoring Servers Network 98

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Releasing the Dynatrace OTel Collector reinforces the company’s commitment to open source software and democratizing how organizations collect data from cloud infrastructure and applications.

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. Exceeded throughput levels can be a sign that some changes to the network configuration might be required.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

SAP HANA server infrastructure monitored with OneAgent. Troubleshoot faster with quick, automated root-cause analysis within SAP and between SAP and non-SAP integrated domains. This enables end-to-end observability of SAP business operations and predictive SAP health monitoring supported by unique Dynatrace Davis ® AI.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Comprehensive platform solutions that provide full-stack monitoring with AI at their core can automatically detect anomalies and provide root-cause analysis to prevent future issues. Networking. Large-scale, multicloud deployments can introduce challenges related to network visibility and interoperability. Observability.

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Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 192

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. One of our software engineers, Tomasz Gajger, has been involved in a research project related to GPU performance analysis.

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Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring Software Engineering 135

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But there’s more than just a need for minimizing resource (CPU, memory, storage) and network (bandwidth) consumption for observability at the edge. Moreover, edge environments can be highly dynamic, with devices frequently joining and leaving the network.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Load time and network latency metrics. Minimize network requests.

Best Practices 197

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 197

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

SIEM platforms offer centralized management of security operations, making it easier for organizations to monitor, manage, and secure their IT infrastructure. Normalization: The collected logs are normalized into a common format, allowing for easier analysis and correlation of security events.

Storage 136

Storage Data Engineering Network Infrastructure 136

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Dynatrace tracks and mitigates its own IT carbon footprint Like many tech companies, Dynatrace is experiencing increased demand for its SaaS-based Dynatrace platform , which we host on cloud infrastructure. As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 208

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

Best Practices 222

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Analytics 184

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 184

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy.

Analytics 187

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 187

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data. Observability tools can provide insights into resource utilization metrics, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network throughput.

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