The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. We present two sets. The arrival of HDR-VMAF allowed us to create HDR streams with DO applied, i.e., HDR-DO encodes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Secondly, knowing who is responsible is essential but not sufficient, especially if you want to automate your triage process. Keeping ownership teams and their properties up to date is essential, as is having the right contact information available when needed. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Automation presents a solution. The following five-step approach is one that Andreas Grabner, DevOps activist at Dynatrace, and I recommend for organizations that want to incorporate SLOs within software delivery and incident management processes. Many organizations often start with the service availability and performance SLOs.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This process begins with an OpenSSL configuration file, a blueprint containing details like your country, state, and organization, capped with the common name that is your server’s alias. The process continues by combining the self-signed CA certificate and private key into a single.pem file.

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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? Some techniques we used were: 1.

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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. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. General Availability (Build 1.241.153). General Availability (Build 1.241.153). The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.241 appeared first on Dynatrace blog. New features and enhancements.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. A given consumer only processes each message once.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. A given consumer only processes each message once.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 188

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grail – the foundation of exploratory analytics Grail can already store and process log and business events. This is only possible because of our no-index approach and massive parallel processing capabilities, which enable Dynatrace to offer extra-long data retention (15+ months) at full granularity that is cost-efficient and fast.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Track changes via our change management process. All steps are fully automated, from source code being compiled to binaries, to the upload of the binaries to the AWS infrastructure where they are available for customers to download. The signatures are automatically verified during the update process on the customer infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

Though, it’s typically impossible to remediate all known security vulnerabilities so enterprises need a better solution for identifying those detected security vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk. Out of the box, Davis Security Advisor pinpoints the open-source components that present the greatest threat. What’s next?

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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. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Moreover, with the new metric browser , you can easily list and filter available metrics, chart metrics, and view automated multidimensional analysis. Events and alerts.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

DevOps and SRE engineers experience a lot of pressure to deliver applications faster and that adhere to standards like “ the five nines ” of availability, resulting in many new service level requirements. Developers also need to automate the release process to speed up deployment and reliability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Self-service update packages management is now available. You can safe your disk space and have more control over what’s available to your cluster . To better present default values, we changed the position of session replay permissions in group details page. . Now only valid versions are available to choose.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

What risks does this release present compared to existing versions that are already in production? Each entry represents a process group instance. Each Release details page shows a summary of captured release metadata and provides links to the process group and hosts where the release was deployed. How Release Analysis works.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

All the above commands are very likely to be described in separate future blog posts, but right now let’s focus on the dataflow sample command. Generally, we prefer to execute DDL commands as part of the workflow itself, instead of running outside of the schedule, because it simplifies the development process. test_sparksql_write.py

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Additional benefits from this new Amazon feature include the following: Customers can reduce operational overhead and easily process VPC Flow Logs by achieving the following: The offering eliminates dependencies on custom integrations. As a result, customers can send their flow logs to Dynatrace directly via Kinesis Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

General Availability (Build 1.235.121). General Availability (Build 1.235.121). Custom process group monitoring rule values are now correctly checked for illegal separator characters. (APM-347408). The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.235 appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace API. Resolved issues.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

When it comes to logs and metrics, the Dynatrace platform provides direct access to the log content of all mission-critical processes. For example, performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (that is, problems that represent anomalies in baseline system performance). Why Dynatrace? Log Viewer. Log Events.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Usage reduction is a continuous process.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s present in major platforms from Amazon Web Services to VMware, and services large and small. The web of dependencies among affected platforms and services means patching can be a complex and possibly time-consuming process. Also, check back on this FAQ blog for frequent updates. The post What is Log4Shell?

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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.

Engineering 167

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 167

VoltDB

APRIL 2, 2024

The value of ACID transactions is argued in the seminal Google F1 paper : The system must provide ACID transactions, and must always present applications with consistent and correct data. Available : All live nodes in a distributed system can process operations and respond to queries. WHAT DOES CAP STAND FOR? Plan accordingly.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In this blog post, we’ll explain how PgBouncer works, the pros and cons of using it, and how to setup the connection pooler. 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.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 9, 2019

However, when the crashed master comes back, you may find that it has transactions that are not present in the current master (which was previously a slave). Why exactly this happens is explained in full detail in the blog post by Jean-François Gagné (JF). However, discarding a server like this is expensive and inefficient.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. Much of what’s covered in this blog post is taken from that talk. To handle N parallel requests, N Lambda instances need to be available, and AWS will spin up up to 1000 such instances automatically to handle 1000 parallel requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics. Introduction and account creation Highlight our value propositions and begin the account creation process. Given the flow and mode, the Orchestration Service can then process the request.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

However, because organizations typically use multiple mobile monitoring tools, this process is often far more difficult than it should be. Organizations must ensure strict compliance without creating too many burdensome manual processes. The post Deliver a perfect, GDPR-compliant mobile experience appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” In particular, the Kafka integration is the most relevant for this blog post.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

Analytics 171

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 171