The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevSecOps initiatives aren’t rooted in a specific technology. Dynatrace news. But what exactly does this mean? What is DevSecOps? Operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. To avoid processing old events, a staleness filter is applied as a gating check.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). – New Technologies. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Cloud and virtualization triggered appearance dynamic, auto-scaling architectures, which significantly impact getting and analyzing feedback. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It is difficult to fault their argument – as it’s absolutely true that: Each client having its own process prevents a poorly behaving client from crashing the entire database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Flow Exporter The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. What is BPF?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 30, 2020

In an effort to effectively and efficiently produce this content we are looking to improve and automate many areas of the production process. Production: Enable content creation from script to screen that optimizes the production process for efficiency and transparency.

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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. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Dynatrace news. billion in 2020 to $4.1 What are logs?

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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.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. So please stay tuned for updates. . Dynatrace news. What’s next.

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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. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

this technology. OpenTelemetry demo application architecture diagram. You can ingest OpenTelemetry data in two ways: using Dynatrace OneAgent technology or using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), which relies exclusively on open source technology. Support for metrics will be extended in the near future, so stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Understand and optimize your architecture. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3].

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The devil is in the detail, though because of the sheer number, breadth, and volatility of technologies used in modern architectures and the immense volume, velocity, and variety of data they produce. Explore and access 500+ automatically and natively supported technologies.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Especially as software development continually evolves using microservices, containerized architecture, distributed multicloud platforms, and open-source code.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. This fully automated scaling and tuning will enable a serverless-like experience in our Operators and Everest.

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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. These two technologies, alongside a host of other resiliency and chaos tools, made a massive difference: our reliability improved measurably as a result.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and periodically compute key information for a member or a video. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. SLO validation – ?Automatically Topics in this blog series.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled microservice architecture and with a global studio footprint, surfacing and connecting the data from microservices into a studio data catalog in real time has become more important than ever. tactical) in nature. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Thanks to its simple and modern structure, it has gained popularity among many large technology companies from Uber to Dropbox. With no required recompilation or code changes, you can: Monitor web-scale and highly dynamic microservice architectures including statically as well as dynamically linked Go applications and platform components.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Dynatrace news. Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. So, the organization sought to reduce complexity and raise production quality.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Peter deSantis does a Monday evening technology keynote that usually has most of the sustainability related content in it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

However, for many organizations, back-end technology layers create blind spots in their current approach to monitoring. The IBM IMS TM Resource adapter is another important bridging technology that is mainly used by Java applications or web services to access IMS transactions that are running on host IMS systems. CICS sockets).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. So, a well architected Lambda architecture can save a lot of costs.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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