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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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. Just like the Dynatrace Platform, the Software Intelligence Hub is built with automation at its core.

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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. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. The dynamic architectures represent a major challenge for both monitoring and analysis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based Indeed, according to Dynatrace data, 71% of CIOs say the explosion of data from cloud-native architectures is beyond human ability to manage.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2022, our conversations included the following: Katy Craig, Retired Navy Chief, now Adjunct Faculty at National University, & Director, Security Architecture at Aquia, Inc. Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer (CSO). Elizebeth Varghese , Global and Americas Leader – HR Transformation Client Offerings at IBM.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

Best Practices 195

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DZone

MAY 1, 2020

In a software system, in order to acquire observability, we mainly implement the following aspects: logging, metrics, and tracing. Especially when we are moving away from monolithic software systems to microservices-based architectures, observability becomes a key aspect of the system design.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Netflix software infrastructure is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers that are operated on the AWS and Netflix owned services. 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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Companies can choose whatever combination of infrastructure, platforms, and software will help them best achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of new apps and services while simultaneously baking in security measures. Development teams create and iterate on new software applications. Development. Operations.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Golden Paths for rapid product development Modern software development aims to streamline development and delivery processes to ensure fast releases to the market without violating quality and security standards. To bring these practices to life within an organization at scale, the discipline of platform engineering has gained popularity.

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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. How to get started.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. We will continue to share our work in this space, 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. It allows for the breaking up of heavy monolithic architectures into multiple serverless “functions.” Understand and optimize your architecture. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news. What’s next.

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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. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news. What’s next?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles. By tuning workflows, you can increase their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

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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. With the help of log monitoring software, teams can collect information and trigger alerts if something happens that affects system performance and health.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Three pillars of observability converge with context and business data at the massive scale of Grail The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has always brought the full value of logs, metrics, and traces together with context and user data for AI-powered analysis.

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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. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Dynatrace news. Chaos engineers ask why.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently. Making use of serverless architecture. The Serverless Process.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services. If so, stay tuned for more news about direct AWS Kinesis Data Firehose configuration in AWS console. Or explore the recently introduced support for AWS Lambda logs.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. We are happy to announce we are enhancing our Software Intelligence Platform to automatically capture log and event streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. Modern applications, on average, comprise 70% of open-source software, the rest being custom code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Batch Pensive Batch Pensive Architecture Batch workflows in the data platform run using a Scheduler service that launches containers on the Netflix container management platform called Titus to run workflow steps. One example where it can dramatically help is Spark jobs, where memory tuning is a significant challenge.

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Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. It allows for the breaking up of heavy monolithic architectures into multiple serverless “functions.” Understand and optimize your architecture. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news. What’s next.

Serverless 143

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 143

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

From the software perspective, Linux players like RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE have already entered this market with fully supported enterprise versions of Linux for ARM. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer. The above architecture has served us well over the last decade, though changing business needs and evolving industry standards have added more complexity to our IPC ecosystem in a number of ways.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. With the self-service features and an everything-as-code architecture, labor requirements will significantly decrease and SRE best practices will emerge. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

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Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 192

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. Generally, SLOs are important because they: Improve software quality. It is inevitable that software can break.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The rapidly evolving digital landscape is one important factor in the acceleration of such transformations – microservices architectures, service mesh, Kubernetes, Functions as a Service (FaaS), and other technologies now enable teams to innovate much faster. New cloud-native technologies make observability more important than ever….

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. Figure 1 shows the high-level architecture.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

Companies face many challenges as they deploy modern IT architectures. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub provides integration with supported open source tools. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub provides direct access to open source tools that Dynatrace supports, as well as instrumentation guides to help with customizations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The zero-configuration philosophy we’ve infused into its architecture, combined with continuous automation, has made it possible for Dynatrace to offer the best-in-class solution on the market. Large-scale software deployments rarely depend on the manual invocation of installers.

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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. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

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Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Source: [link] Cassandra has tunable consistency which means that not only on the database level, you can tune the immediate and eventual consistency of your data per query/operation by setting the read CL (consistency level) and write CL. Comments and thoughts welcome.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. For software to be delivered in a deployable state at all times requires that it be developed with that mindset.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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