The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? 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. SRE focuses on automation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. As of today, Dynatrace constantly and automatically tracks DNS requests with zero additional configuration.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly. Enable the Davis AI causation engine to automatically analyze every metric. Enable the Davis AI causation engine to automatically analyze every metric.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Cloud infrastructure analysis ensures the secure configuration of cloud infrastructure including virtual machines, containers, cloud-hosted databases, and serverless services. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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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. Dynatrace news. SRE focuses on automation. SRE drives a “shift left” mindset.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: are automatically distributed to a group of ActiveGates, balancing the load automatically and switching workloads in case of infrastructure failure, to assure continued monitoring execution. Extensions 2.0

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Because of its adaptability, Prometheus has become an essential tool for observability engineering. Jolly good!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. Managing this change is difficult.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2022

Today, Google announced virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture on Compute Engine called Tau T2A , which are optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads, as well as GKE Arm. Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis® , uses this map to automatically identify and prioritize anomalies, and enable automatic remediation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. Even for a supported component, delivering logs from applications and infrastructure to DevSecBizOps workflows requires significant manual configuration.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Predictive AI empowers site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies and irregular patterns in their systems long before they escalate into critical incidents. Capacity planning.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. This is the problem domain on which Keptn can help Platform Engineers provide a solution and guard rails for teams to deploy software that works perfectly.

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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.

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VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability , aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. So when they don’t get one, they ask again — and again… and again… We thus have two compelling reasons for why high availability is so important: 1. What is high availability?

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Flexible pricing models that offer discounts based on commitment or availability can greatly reduce cloud waste. Suboptimal architecture design.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure. Finally, observability helps organizations understand the connections between disparate software, hardware, and infrastructure resources.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To bring these practices to life within an organization at scale, the discipline of platform engineering has gained popularity. From a high-level point of view, platform engineering aims to: Reduce the cognitive load on development teams. The new functionality has already been released and is available for your use.

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InfoQ

AUGUST 3, 2023

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2022

Life as an SRE means always being alerted on issues, because your infrastructure and applications never sleep. the newly released mobile app available on Android and iOS , uses Davis AIOps to push alert notifications directly to your phone and significantly reduce the incident response times. How to manage incidents on your mobile?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

GKE Autopilot empowers organizations to invest in creating elegant digital experiences for their customers in lieu of expensive infrastructure management. These CSI pods provide a unique way of solving a handful of infrastructure problems. Here we asked Davis, the Dynatrace AI engine , to correlate CPU usage against other signals.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But organizations must also be aware of the pitfalls of AI: security and compliance risks, biases, misinformation, and lack of insight into critical metrics (including availability, code development, infrastructure, databases, and more). After updating the query to ask for log data, the engineer was able to identify attack attempts.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

After meeting the necessary requirements, we are excited to announce that the Dynatrace AI-powered platform as a SaaS on Microsoft Azure is now available in Switzerland. This represents the first observability solution available to Microsoft customers as a Switzerland-based SaaS deployment. Legal regulations. Obligations to end users.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. Tracking the availability, health, and resource utilization of the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure is essential for several reasons. This saves infrastructure and application teams time and resources and empowers them to act collaboratively.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure. What is BPF?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications. What is Lambda?

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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