The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more. What is infrastructure monitoring? . What to look for when selecting an infrastructure monitoring solution? It’s not hype, it’s the way forward.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

This is why we’re proud to announce fully automated and AI-powered full-stack monitoring for OpenShift 4.0 Traditional monitoring systems cannot keep up with the speed of change in those highly dynamic large-scale container environments. Automated distributed tracing, deep monitoring and AI-powered answers for OpenShift 4.0

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. Application architectures might not be conducive to rehosting. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data. Suboptimal architecture design. For example, poorly written code can consume a lot of resources, or an application can make unnecessary calls to cloud services.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-to-end code-level tracing. End-user monitoring. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

In today's digital landscape, where user experience is paramount, organizations must ensure their applications and systems are functioning optimally at all times. Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities. Because of their flexibility, dynamic, ephemeral environments are more difficult to monitor in real time than traditional on-premises infrastructure. At RSA 2022 , the theme is Transform.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Maximizing a strong foundation of IT infrastructure performance and security means effectively utilizing all the data that these systems produce to drive risk management processes and decision-making. Break down data silos.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Many global enterprises have instrumented their code to emit traces, metrics, and logs in a standardized and vendor-neutral way using OpenTelemetry. Native support for OpenTelemetry (OTLP) logs also supports enterprises that have highly diverse technical architectures.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration management tool.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. What stands out as an imperative now is the urgent need for vendors to shift their focus back to customers and resist the temptation to capitalize on the growing demand for extensive data management and monitoring in complex IT environments.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Vulnerabilities for critical systems A global leader in the energy space found itself asking this very question. Additionally, the energy company didn’t have systems in place to engage in automated remediation were an attack to unfold.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Cloud application security remains challenging because organizations lack end-to-end visibility into cloud architecture. As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they must balance the agility that microservices architecture brings with the complexity and lack of transparency that can also come with it.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

It also entails secure development practices, security monitoring and logging, compliance and governance, and incident response. Cloud application security practices enable organizations to follow secure coding practices, monitor and log activities for detection and response, comply with regulations, and develop incident response plans.

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Apica

JANUARY 18, 2023

That’s an apt description for a lot of IT architectures today. Visibility Challenges in Today’s Architecture. As a result of these legacy systems, businesses are selling themselves short when it comes to understanding what is happening within — and across — their applications.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 1, 2023

As digital transformation accelerates, organizations turn to hybrid and multicloud architectures to innovate, grow, and reduce costs. But the complexity and scale of multicloud architecture invites new enterprise challenges. Security vulnerabilities can easily creep into IT systems and create costly risks.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. They are required to understand the full story of what happened in a system. Organizations struggle to effectively use logs for monitoring business-critical data and troubleshooting.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model. Scalability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

The practice uses continuous monitoring and high levels of automation in close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure applications are highly available and perform without friction. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Moreover, distributed microservices architecture and data silos mean teams don’t have access to the context that’s critical to make sense of this data and all its different data formats. For this comprehensive monitoring in context, they had adopted Dynatrace.

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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. Using an interactive no/low code editor, you can create workflows or configure them as code.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. There are simply too many disparate sources of information to successfully manage and monitor without automation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

PTC System Monitor (PSM) reached the end of support back on March 31, 2021, and with PSM no longer included for new Windchill and ThingWorx releases, it is a perfect time to get started with Dynatrace. As a PTC system administrator, you may be performing manual health checks of your PTC environment on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. Monitor and measure progress during the migration. Once a modernization plan is in place, strategize how to monitor and measure the process.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

The team can “catch more bugs and performance problems before the code is deployed to the production environment,” Smith said. This means that our development teams are spending less time fixing defects and more time writing new code. It helps our DevOps team respond and resolve systems’ problems faster,” Smith said.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Considering open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, this threat is not going anywhere anytime soon. Cloud operations and observability boost resilience for American Family – blog.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. They need automated DevOps practices.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Monitoring automation is ongoing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

2021 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Application Performance Monitoring. Observability provides deeper technical insights into what’s happening within cloud environments, in comparison to APM and/or traditional monitoring methods. Observability isn’t simply a new name for application performance monitoring (APM).

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Organizations have clearly experienced growth, agility, and innovation as they move to cloud computing architecture. As a result, many IT teams have turned to cloud observability platforms to reduce blind spots in their cloud architecture, to resolve problems rapidly, and to deliver better customer experience. Dynatrace Grail.

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