The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 224

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 208

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Logs highlight observability challenges Ingesting, storing, and processing the unprecedented explosion of data from sources such as software as a service, multicloud environments, containers, and serverless architectures can be overwhelming for today’s organizations. Ingesting, processing, retaining, and querying logs.

Analytics 187

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

Software Architecture 69

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

pgBouncer Architecture | Source. Lightweight – It is a single process, and all commands from the client and responses from the server passthrough PgBouncer without any processing. It recommends using other common linux tools like HAProxy to create an architecture which does support these features. Pool definitions.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

People use these words to try and articulate the types of work and activities they are referring to, or where they are in the process of building something new. Indi provides a precise definition of each space including the types of activities that fit within them. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

Development 98

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. These range from the simple lift-and-shift re-hosting approach to the significant architectural changes involved in refactoring. “At one point, we saw a process that was causing a lot of CPU contention.

Cloud 171

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 171

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. This is made possible through generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities. For organizations building business-centric SLOs, Aguiar had some recommendations. “If

Best Practices 191

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. With the option to use multiple CDNs, you can select the areas you want to focus on, all while saving a pretty penny in the process. But what if we could streamline this?With

Architecture 52

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important. This is especially crucial in microservice architectures, where the number of components can be overwhelming. The screenshot below displays such a configuration.

Best Practices 189

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Intertwined processes slow down automation at scale. Developing applications based on modern architectures comes with a challenge for release automation: integrating delivery of many services with similar processes but often with different technologies and tools along the delivery pipelines. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 182

DevOps Cloud Testing Tools Strategy 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The general agreed-upon definition of. Data from all these sources is collected and analyzed by Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis, that’s built into the core of the platform (not bolted on) to drive intelligent and definitive problem identification and root-cause analysis. Figure 2 The scope of Observability compared to APM.

DevOps 218

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Research shows that at least 35% of providers consider the buffering issues their main QoE when it comes to video streaming.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2021

However, Kim underlined there is no single definition of DevOps, referring to one of his earlier works, The DevOps Handbook , where the practice was described as “architectural practices, technical practices, and cultural norms that allow us to increase our ability to deliver applications and services quickly and safely.”.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Watch highlights covering the latest tools and techniques of software architecture. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2018. Experts from across the software architecture world came together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Defining software architecture.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. This is great!

Analytics 186

Analytics Systems DevOps Healthcare 186

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. If your custom resource-definition targets the pod’s namespace, OneAgent will be injected before it starts. If not, the pod will remain as is.

Government 164

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 164

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

IoT – Data processing on edge locations. It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud.

AWS 131

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Though the existing system may be mature and stable, they will have distinct differences in architecture, feature set, and performance capabilities. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MySQL version 5.7

Open Source 122

Open Source Database Architecture Design 122

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. Fact #2: No significant impact on Dynatrace Users.

AWS 189

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 189

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 220

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Both Kubernetes monitoring and routing capabilities now use a containerized architecture and are managed by the new Dynatrace Operator. In addition to deploying ActiveGate capabilities as pods, the new Dynatrace Operator also includes: A simplified custom resource definition (CRD) for all Dynatrace components.

Cloud 224

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 224

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Here is the definition of this model: ?. In this visual, you can see the whole processing of Keptn deploying, testing, and evaluating performance tests against defined SLIs is automated.

Performance 242

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 242

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets?

Metrics 191

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 191

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

STDOUT Datasink This diagram displays the process of streaming a backup to object storage utilizing the current STDOUT datasink: XtraBackup spawns multiple copy threads. This architecture works fine when uploading data via WAN (we mostly will not have this speed over WAN). Each one will be reading a chunk of data from a specific file.

Storage 78

Storage Speed Open Source Servers 78

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

The evaluation process may include trying to recognize the show from its box art, watching trailers, reading its synopsis or in some cases reading reviews for the show on some external website. This evaluation process incurs a cost that can be measured in units of time. If the discount factor ? =0, Therefore q with ? =

Metrics 178

Metrics Systems Architecture Processing 178

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But there are cases where you might be limited in setting up a dedicated syslog server with OneAgent because of environment architecture or resources. One recurrent challenge is collecting Kubernetes logs if you’re limited in installing OneAgent because of technical or architectural restrictions.

Strategy 180

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 180

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. From common terms and their definitions, individuals, teams, and services. Architecture Dispatch makes use of the following components: Python 3.8

AWS 204

AWS Open Source Google Speed 204

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and Keptn – the Event-Driven Autonomous Cloud Control Plane – are helping our Dynatrace customers to automate their delivery and operations processes. The Dynatrace teams also built automation on top of Dynatrace to automate many tasks of our Continuous Delivery & Feedback (CDF) and operational processes.

Cloud 187

Cloud DevOps Azure Architecture 187

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It offers automatic data sharding, master-replica configurations for high availability, and a scalable and flexible architecture to maintain consistent performance. The purpose is scaling out distributed systems effectively and offering improved management and performance while processing numerous keys. Visualize it as a relay race.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

Processing 272

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2019

“I’m happy—no need to change” Most of our AppMon customers are already in the process of upgrading from AppMon to the Dynatrace platform. AppMon is still the best-in-class second-generation APM solution, but it requires you to instrument each process manually and pick the corresponding agent technology.

Infrastructure 134

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Government 134

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

AppMon is still the best-in-class second-generation APM solution, but it requires you to instrument each process manually and pick the corresponding agent technology. Smartscape , our real-time topology visualization tool, provides a holistic view of your environment, showing all dependencies in your infrastructure, processes, and services.

Monitoring 146

Monitoring Systems Infrastructure Cloud 146

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. Dynatrace news.

IoT 161

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 161

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. What is a Distributed System? Multi-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74