The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation? Let’s have a look at a few applications.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns. To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. The term can also point to a way of using an AI tool that upholds the tenets of AI transparency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. Architectural overview.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models. What will the new architecture be?

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Auto-scaling is often presented as a panacea for performance problems, but, even if it is properly implemented (which is, of course, better to be tested), it just assigns a price tag for performance.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Ortner reviewed the process of solving these issues. “We

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Individual teams may be full-stack/end-to-end or dedicated presentation/domain teams. An Experience Group is a collection of teams which handle only experience and presentation concerns. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each team in an Identity group may own one or more features.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner. Often there is a tension. Having a quantifiable number.

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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. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Distributed Storage Architecture Distributed storage systems are designed with a core framework that includes the main system controller, a data repository for the system, and a database. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

In a federated graph architecture, how can we answer such a query given that each entity is served by its own service? Architecture Putting this all together, below you can see a simplified view of the architecture. By transacting with a database which is monitored by a CDC connector that creates events, or b.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives. Each algorithm needed a process of evaluation and tuning to get great results in AVA Discovery View. Each algorithm needed a process of evaluation and tuning to get great results in AVA Discovery View.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

DevSecOps presents organizations that are already practicing DevOps with an alternate, more proactive perspective on security. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native and multicloud architecture, teams are now releasing software more frequently and running into operational complexities, including critical security risks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? How does late-arriving data impact us?

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InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. By Michelle Garrett.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. What is DevOps maturity?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grail – the foundation of exploratory analytics Grail can already store and process log and business events. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. You no longer need to split, distribute, or pre-aggregate your data.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. Why is that? Should we be alarmed as a community?

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. Present Bias. In Thaler’s book, he uses the term “present bias” to describe how people discount the future and give larger weight or value to decisions that are closer in time. Discounting the Past.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It connects to PostgreSQL as a predefined user (whose password must be present in the userslist.txt file) and executes the auth-query to find the user’s password and matches it to the provided value. pgBouncer Architecture | Source. If it violates the max_client_connections restriction, it aborts the connection.

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Particular Software

JULY 12, 2021

In your back-end system, you might benefit from event-driven architecture, automatic message retries, and orchestration of long-running business processes. Ideally, a message receiver could process an incoming message without requiring any specific header. On the.NET side, we can use NServiceBus to process the message.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. We would need to process authentication tokens (and protocols) further upstream. EAS also covers the read-only processing of tokens to create Passports (more on that later).

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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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Consumers expect personalized, proactive, and convenient service, which traditional application architectures often struggle to provide. Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. Competitive advantage. Enhanced business operations.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Further, these resources support countless Kubernetes clusters and Java-based architectures. Each process could generate multiple log entries, adding up to terabytes of data every day.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

” But, he continues, ” Today’s environments present a completely different picture. They need to automate manual tasks, streamline processes, and invest in new technologies. And according to 451 Research, 83% of organizations plan to adapt their monitoring process. during 2021–2026.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is a combination of policies, processes, and controls that aim to reduce the risk of exposing cloud-based applications to compromise or failure from external or internal threats. This process can delay deployments or cause developers to skip security testing completely to meet project deadlines.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These dynamics orchestrate a multifaceted overhaul of the business terrain, including processes and operations, and require teams to explore new approaches. Automation and AI are critical to achieving deep cloud observability, and in order to keep up with the changing landscape, it’s fundamental.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy. In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015!

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