The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications. Platform engineers design and implement these platforms, as well as ensure their security, scalability, and reliability. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

Engineering 211

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 211

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. Microsoft designed the kernel and other aspects of the OS with an emphasis on security due to its focused role in executing container workloads.

Azure 226

Azure Monitoring Operating System Virtualization 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimize cost and availability while staying compliant Observability data like logs and metrics provide automated answers, root cause detection, and security issues. This means compromising between keeping data available as long as possible for analysis while juggling the costs and overhead of storage, archiving, and retrieval.

Analytics 213

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

According to the Dynatrace “2022 Global CIO Report,” 79% of large organizations use multicloud infrastructure. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. We also couldn’t compromise on performance and availability.”

Cloud 171

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 171

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This framework was initially intended to be internal only, focusing on integration with the Netflix ecosystem for tracing, logging, metrics, etc. At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. It provides an easy way for tooling to consume the schema.

Open Source 246

Open Source Java Architecture Metrics 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Create a baseline of performance metrics and alert administrators when performance varies.

Artificial Intelligence 232

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 232

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%.

Metrics 190

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 190

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. Like Kubernetes, it allocates resources efficiently and ensures high availability and fault tolerance.

Open Source 206

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 206

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. This is a rather simple move as it doesn’t directly impact your infrastructure, just your contract with your electricity provider.

Cloud 208

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 208

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 254

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 254

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

Additionally, we’ve been able to unify dev teams and business teams to set and monitor metrics around user interaction with our sites.” Director of infrastructure, software sector “ Strong technology and stronger people. Download the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability. Download now!

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Retail Performance Government 220

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework.

AWS 246

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. When designing and running modern, scalable, and distributed applications, Kubernetes seems to be the solution for all your needs.

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. Second, backend services or infrastructure can be scaled intelligently as adoption ramps up.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. There is a wide selection of advanced solutions available for cloud monitoring, including various choices for ensuring top-notch security in your organization’s systems.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. Application availability measures the time an application is available and fully functional for end users.

DevOps 187

DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

A typical design pattern is the use of a semantic search over a domain-specific knowledge base, like internal documentation, to provide the required context in the prompt. Businesses in all sectors are introducing novel approaches to innovate with generative AI in their domains. Our example dashboard below visualizes OpenAI token consumption.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 164

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations. Setting up clear rules for managing your cloud infrastructure is key to keeping things from getting out of hand.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A few months ago we wrote about how you can scale your API operations with our version 2 APIs , by showing off the Dynatrace Metrics API v2 and the Monitored entities API v2. We know how crucial this information can be when it comes to reporting, analyzing long-term trends, or identifying problem entities in your infrastructure.

Metrics 245

Metrics Monitoring Efficiency Availability 245

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. Additionally, large differences in a metric by themselves do not make a metric poor.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

The ideal end user experience is friction-free: users can access available and functional applications how, when, and where they want. 65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025.

Mobile 166

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 166

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

In addition to APM , th is platform offers our customers infrastructure monitoring spanning logs and metrics, digital business analytics, digital experience monitoring, and AIOps capabilities. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace LLC. . This combination sets us apart. .

DevOps 242

DevOps Innovation Monitoring Analytics 242

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

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. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. The graphic below (Fig.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Upcoming topics include infrastructure and application monitoring, AI/ML platforms, and more. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Apply here. Need excellent people?

Software 125

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure 125

High Scalability

MARCH 19, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Upcoming topics include infrastructure and application monitoring, AI/ML platforms, and more. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Apply here. Need excellent people?

Software 122

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure 122

High Scalability

MARCH 5, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Upcoming topics include infrastructure and application monitoring, AI/ML platforms, and more. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Apply here. Need excellent people?

Software 116

Software Software Analytics Infrastructure 116

High Scalability

JANUARY 8, 2019

For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

Java 137

Java Metrics Software Engineering DevOps 137

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Label-based access control is a security mechanism that allows companies to control who can access specific metrics based on their labels. To simplify access management : Label-based access control can simplify access management by allowing companies to assign labels to metrics. Which approach should I use when assigning roles?

Metrics 105

Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 105

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Choose the most promising subset of tests out of thousands of test cases available when running continuous integration against a device.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. How do AWS Lambda functions impact monitoring?

Lambda 179

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

High Scalability

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

Java 125

Java Metrics Software Engineering DevOps 125