The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

By leveraging Dynatrace observability on Red Hat OpenShift running on Linux, you can accelerate modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes. Dynatrace observability is available for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The end goal, of course, is to optimize the availability of organizations’ software. Dynatrace is widely recognized for its AI capabilities’ ability to predict and prevent issues, and automatically identify root causes, maximizing availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing. Commitment to privacy.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Query Optimization.

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DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems. It typically involves setting up specific metrics, thresholds, and alerting mechanisms to track the performance and availability of various components.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure allows enterprises to streamline deployment, gain critical insights, and automate manual processes. As of October 2024, Dynatrace is available on Microsoft Azure Australia East region, enabling joint customers to maintain a local SaaS presence. The result?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming data, accessing and working with data, and triggering automations.

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DZone

JANUARY 15, 2024

It provides features for load balancing, scaling, and ensuring high availability of your containerized applications. In this comprehensive tutorial, we will walk you through the process of setting up a Docker Swarm cluster and deploying Docker containers within it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Eventually Consistent Global Counter While some users may accept the limitations of a Best-Effort counter, others opt for precise counts, durability and global availability.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2024

Health information on SNMP devices is often isolated and discovered devices are not placed in the correct context, failing to fulfill the goal of the discovery process: associating SNMP device data with the IT environments where the devices reside. Start the configuration process for the SNMP Autodiscovery extension.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

A key learning from the outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike “Rapid Response” update is how critical it is to understand your vendors’ quality control and release processes. What is your testing process? A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage. A variety of events and circumstances can cause an outage.

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DZone

AUGUST 6, 2021

The entire process of Cloud Testing is operated online with the help of the required infrastructure. This primarily helps the QA teams to deal with the challenges like limited availability of devices, browsers, and operating systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. Alongside this data ingest, Grail enables highly efficient processing pipelines to enrich ingested data, extract metrics, or add a privacy filter. Retain data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Processing took several hours to complete.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. availability, performance, and security), to ensure applications can effectively deliver their data payload across a globally dispersed cloud-based ecosystem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. The sched_wakeup and sched_wakeup_new hooks are invoked when a process changes state from 'sleeping' to 'runnable.' ' They let us identify when a process is ready to run and is waiting for CPU time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

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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. How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Availability. SLOs improve software quality. SLOs promote automation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Whether you’re looking to zero in on specific hosts, operating system and application processes, or devices, the improved filters enable high-precision searches without sacrificing the operational performance of the Infrastructure & Operations app.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2024

Our company uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to streamline the comparison and purchasing process for car insurance and car loans. This architecture ensures high availability and stability of the data while significantly enhancing system performance and data recovery capabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case. After reading the asset ids using one of the ways, an event is created per asset id to be processed synchronously or asynchronously based on the use case.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Event Prioritization Considering the use cases were wide ranging both in terms of their sources and their importance, we built segmentation into the event processing. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

This means high-frequency streamed logs from Firehose can be captured in your Dynatrace environment, automatically processed, stored in Grail for the retention period of your choice, and included in the full observability automation suite of the Dynatrace® platform, apps, and Davis ® AI problem detection.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Limited data availability constrains value creation. While all these measures address the mounting economic pressure to reduce the costs of data storage, they have two major shortcomings: they restrict data availability, and they don’t create value. Even in cases where all data is available, new challenges can arise.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. Hence, having a dedicated dashboard tile visualizing the key parameters of each SLO simplifies the process of evaluating them.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency. Enterprises seek solutions that enable these processes to interact across their entire system landscape without compromising security.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The adoption process takes time and consideration. What used to take a lot of valuable time, resources, and tools is now available in one central place. By using the available ownership information, teams can quickly and immediately begin to collaborate on optimizing these workloads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. We can then create offline distributed batch processing jobs to correlate & compare the responses across the production and replay paths and generate detailed reports on the analysis.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2022

An access log is generated by the web server to log the details about the request that it has processed. Access logs are available for the below servers while the format for each of them varies: It logs status code, response time, URL, protocol, size, client IP address, etc., about the request.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

This enables the Dynatrace extension to perform activities like processing telemetry data and sending data to the Dynatrace Cluster following the return of Lambda function responses. All improvements are available with OneAgent version 1.217. Figure 2: Automatically imported AWS Resource tags on your AWS dashboard.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Automatic data capture and display: More data, including span attributes, is available for out-of-the-box analysis, with no additional configuration necessary. As soon as the new Distributed Tracing Experience is available for your environment, you’ll see a teaser banner in your classic Distributed Traces app.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

Next, we launched a Mantis job that processed all requests in the stream and replayed them in a duplicate production environment created for replay traffic. The Mantis query language allowed us to set the percentage of replay traffic to process.

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