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.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management.

Systems 189

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 189

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 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

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. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely.

Analytics 206

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 206

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. Application and system logs are often collected in data silos using different tools, with no relationships between them, and then correlated in manual and often meaningless ways. where an error occurred at the code level.

Analytics 226

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 226

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.

Artificial Intelligence 266

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Analytics Engineering 266

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. Fragmented and siloed data storage can create inconsistencies and redundancies. Timeliness.

Government 205

Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage 205

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 219

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 219

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail needs to support security data as well as business analytics data and use cases. With that in mind, Grail needs to achieve three main goals with minimal impact to cost: Cope with and manage an enormous amount of data —both on ingest and analytics. High-performance analytics—no indexing required.

Artificial Intelligence 272

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 272

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

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. From a technical perspective, however, cloud-based analytics can be challenging. That’s especially true of the DevOps teams who must drive digital-fueled sustainable growth.

DevOps 188

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 188

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key Takeaways A hybrid cloud platform combines private and public cloud providers with on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, secure, cost-effective IT environment that supports scalability, innovation, and rapid market response. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Understanding complex systems Causal AI holds great importance for achieving full-stack observability in complex systems. More generally, causal AI can contribute to explainable and fair AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence 212

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 212

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

Traditional monitoring approaches worked fine when an operator was tasked with tracking a simple, static system,” wrote Ali Siddiqui in “ How to harness the power of observability, AIOps and automation.” Organizations can be more agile when they have access to real-time data about their IT infrastructure. during 2021–2026.

Analytics 147

Analytics Innovation Infrastructure Scalability 147

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As an application owner, product manager, or marketer, however, you might use analytics tools like Adobe Analytics to understand user behavior, user segmentation, and strategic business metrics such as revenue, orders, and conversion goals. Enable the storage types, select Add property. Identifiers of push notifications.

Analytics 139

Analytics Mobile Airlines Monitoring 139

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

The partnership between AI and cloud computing brings about transformative trends like enhanced security through intelligent threat detection, real-time analytics, personalization, and the implementation of edge computing for quicker on-site decision-making. Key among these trends is the emphasis on security and intelligent analytics.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. Data observability is crucial to analytics and automation, as business decisions and actions depend on data quality.

DevOps 197

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How this data-driven technique gives foresight to IT teams – blog By analyzing patterns and trends, predictive analytics enables teams to take proactive actions to prevent problems or capitalize on opportunities. But, as resources move off premises, IT teams can lose visibility into system performance and security issues.

AWS 213

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 213

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Many organizations, somewhat erroneously, respond to cloud complexity by using multiple tools to monitor and manage system health. If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users.

Network 221

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 221

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.

Infrastructure 191

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 191

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In what follows, we explore some key cloud observability trends in 2023, such as workflow automation and exploratory analytics. From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

Efficiency 281

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 281

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

Analytics 245

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 245

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

Analytics 185

Analytics Storage Database Systems 185

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ScaleGrid’s comprehensive solutions provide automated efficiency and cost reduction while offering tailored features such as predictive analytics for businesses of all sizes. Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. Issue remediation.

Best Practices 203

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 203

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.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. System Components. Fetching User Feed. Streaming Data Model.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda.

Best Practices 216

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 216

DZone

JULY 22, 2019

In our double-sided system of user behavior and app condition monitoring, we use Graylog as a single data storage for logs and other data about the web app, and Grafana , a powerful data visualization tool. App-specific metrics are complemented by other analytics to give a broader picture of system state and performance.

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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.

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Reduce alert noise and accelerate your mean time to repair (MTTR) for infrastructure incidents. Dynatrace connects straight to the Prometheus exporters on your systems. Dynatrace news.

Technology 222

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 222

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). Procella system overview. VLDB’19. are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Moreover, the system lacks flexibility, imposing strict schemas that administrators and developers must adhere to avoid additional costs. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. The majority of costs are associated with data querying.

Retail 242

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 242

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time . Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system . To provide actionable answers monitoring systems store, baseline, and analyze telemetry data. Further reading about infrastructure monitoring: .

Analytics 135

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 135

Uber Engineering

APRIL 5, 2018

Three years ago, Uber Engineering adopted Hadoop as the storage ( HDFS ) and compute ( YARN ) infrastructure for our organization’s big data analysis.

Systems 109

Systems Big Data Storage Infrastructure 109