The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. Replay traffic enabled us to test our new systems and algorithms at scale before launch, while also making the traffic as realistic as possible.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Technology and operations teams work to ensure that applications and digital systems work seamlessly and securely. They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Understanding future capacity requirements is crucial for maintaining system stability.

Artificial Intelligence 263

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

It requires specialized talent, a new technology stack to manage and deploy models, an ample budget for rising compute costs, and end-to-end security. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5

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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.

Infrastructure 186

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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. Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

FinOps aligns technology initiatives with business objectives while maintaining financial transparency and accountability to reduce unnecessary cloud spend and lower costs. 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 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

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. When we examine IBM Power Systems usage by industry, the majority of Fortune 500 companies run their most demanding mission-critical workloads on AIX. The ones that are available are old generation.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. So, what is ITOps?

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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. The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system.

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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. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business and technology leaders are increasing their investments in AI to achieve business goals and improve operational efficiency. The second use case involves a security engineer who becomes aware of a new threat and wants to know if any of the organization’s systems might be affected. AI implementations are no exception.

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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.

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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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 255

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s also a great opportunity for you to learn more about the available roles, the technical challenges the teams are facing and what it’s like to work on a backend engineering team at Netflix. Let us know if you need any assistive technology or other accommodations ahead of time, and we’ll be sure to work with you to get it set up.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 188

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration management tool.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

PTC System Monitor (PSM) reached the end of support back on March 31, 2021, and with PSM no longer included for new Windchill and ThingWorx releases, it is a perfect time to get started with Dynatrace. As a PTC system administrator, you may be performing manual health checks of your PTC environment on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

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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. With the Dynatrace mobile app, you can check your system notifications and alerts from anywhere. The Dynatrace mobile app takes the desktop experience you are already familiar with and makes it available on your mobile.

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Mobile Infrastructure DevOps Monitoring 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Often, organizations resort to using separate tools for different parts of their technology stack. By integrating Nutanix metrics into Dynatrace, you can gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Nutanix infrastructure. Understanding what’s happening across these diverse environments can be tricky.

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Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 193

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 186

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. It highlights the potential of GPT technology to drive “information democracy” even further.

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Innovation Software Software Artificial Intelligence 260

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

The challenge was that technology wasn't capable of processing real human conversation. The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. People interact with many different applications and systems at work.

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Systems AWS Games Transportation 110

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

This enables unified observability because logs are indispensable for troubleshooting apps, monitoring infrastructure, auditing or investigating security incidents, tracking business events, and many other use cases. As an alternative, OpenTelemetry lets you extend Dynatrace technology coverage with log data.

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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. Workflows are powered by a core platform technology of Dynatrace called the AutomationEngine. This workflow uses the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian application.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Every day, healthcare organizations across the globe have embraced innovative technology to streamline the delivery of patient care. Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, this trend was undeniably apparent.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. Benefits of migrating to the cloud.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? What is always-on infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 183

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. By carefully considering the various APM tools available and how well they meet your needs, you’ll have the best chance of picking the right one for your organization. APM solutions: A primer.

Artificial Intelligence 232

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 232

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. According to the recent Dynatrace report, “ The state of AI 2024 ,” 83% of technology leaders said AI has become mandatory to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud environments.

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Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 186

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. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 176

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 176

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

To adapt, many are turning to AIOps and other automation technologies to solve the complex issues that accompany cloud-native architecture. While shifting to a multicloud model offers many advantages, the change also introduces more data and systems to track and a complex matrix of systems to manage. Dynatrace news.

Cloud 178

Cloud DevOps Architecture Technology 178

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Cloud computing has become a widely-used model of computing, as it offers a number of benefits over traditional, on-premises computing systems. Can you expand?

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Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. How does chaos engineering work?

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 226

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. They are required to understand the full story of what happened in a system.

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