The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. 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. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Business analytics is a growing science that’s rising to meet the demands of data-driven decision making within enterprises. To measure service quality, IT teams monitor infrastructure, applications, and user experience metrics, which in turn often support service level objectives (SLO)s. What is business analytics?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

Rather, they must be bolstered by additional technological investments to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Dynatrace offers essential analytics and automation to keep applications optimized and businesses flourishing. AI innovation elevates efficiency and performance of Google Cloud AI adoption is increasingly critical for any organization. Learn to boost system reliability through proactive issue detection.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

In what follows, we define software automation as well as software analytics and outline their importance. What is software analytics? This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI. We also discuss the role of AI for IT operations (AIOps) and more.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Technology and operations teams work to ensure that applications and digital systems work seamlessly and securely. They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Through predictive analytics, SREs and DevOps engineers can accurately forecast resource needs based on historical data.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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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.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business and technology leaders are increasing their investments in AI to achieve business goals and improve operational efficiency. By packaging [these capabilities] into hypermodal AI, we are able to run deep custom analytics use cases in sixty seconds or less.” In this example, there is a suspicious increase in scripting events.

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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

MARCH 29, 2024

Teams require innovative approaches to manage vast amounts of data and complex infrastructure as well as the need for real-time decisions. As a result, organizations are turning to AI to automate tasks—from code development to incident response—to reduce manual effort and human error, and to boost workforce efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. It removes much of the guesswork of untangling complex system issues and establishes with certainty why a problem occurred. That’s where causal AI can help. Causal AI is particularly effective in observability. Timeliness.

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s more important than ever for organizations to ensure they’re taking appropriate measures to secure and protect their applications and infrastructure. Organizations should adopt comprehensive practices that encompass a wide range of potential vulnerabilities and apply them across all their IT systems.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And operations teams need to forecast cloud infrastructure and compute resource requirements, then automatically provision resources to optimize digital customer experiences. In addition, they can automatically route precise answers about performance and security anomalies to relevant teams to ensure action in a timely and efficient manner.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment. AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development. Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability. Dynatrace is making the value of AI real.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

With ever-evolving infrastructure, services, and business objectives, IT teams can’t keep up with routine tasks that require human intervention. Ultimately, IT automation can deliver consistency, efficiency, and better business outcomes for modern enterprises. IT automation tools can achieve enterprise-wide efficiency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. 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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 7, 2023

They can also use generative AI for cybersecurity, write prototype code, and implement complex software systems. But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Developers use generative AI to find errors in code and automatically document their code.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Organizations have increasingly turned to software development to gain competitive edge, to innovate and to enable more efficient operations. This shift often requires more frequent software releases with built-in measures that ensure a strong digital immune system. Observability. Continuous validation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

And specifically, how Dynatrace can help partners deliver multicloud performance and boundless analytics for their customers’ digital transformation and success. This digital transformation journey requires AI-powered answers and intelligent automation that legacy systems can’t deliver.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They are required to understand the full story of what happened in a system. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I also built online serving systems and microservices powering Walmart’s e-commerce. Moreover, its petabyte scale also brings unique engineering challenges.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But legacy, custom software can often prevent systems from working together, ultimately hindering growth. An open approach enables technologies to interoperate, whereas proprietary, legacy systems often create vendor lock-in and prevent interoperability and data integration. The platform approach vs. the best-of-breed approach.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a rather simple move as it doesn’t directly impact your infrastructure, just your contract with your electricity provider. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. A modern APM solution should give you complete observability into your front-end, back-end, underlying infrastructure, and cloud environments. APM solutions: A primer. Application performance insights.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

As the globe strides into 2023 — with rapid change and macroeconomic uncertainty looming — organizations want tools and technologies that enable them to become more efficient, reduce costs, and innovate more. Ultimately, IT automation can deliver consistency, efficiency, and better business outcomes for modern enterprises.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

In addition to APM , th is platform offers our customers infrastructure monitoring spanning logs and metrics, digital business analytics, digital experience monitoring, and AIOps capabilities.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. Check out our Power Demo: Log Analytics with Dynatrace.

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