The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. It was time to take a step back and reevaluate our ES data indexing and sharding strategy. We also changed our mapping strategy to overcome these issues.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But the process of cloud migration brings complexity. This struggle may be because cloud modernization is a process, not a singular event—or a “lift and shift”—in which applications are ported to the cloud without being redesigned. Instead, cloud modernization is an ongoing process of assessing, optimizing, and migrating.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

For IT teams seeking agility, cost savings, and a faster on-ramp to innovation, a cloud migration strategy is critical. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops. The pilot cloud migration helps uncover risks related to process, operational, and technology changes.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem? Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Digital transformation with AWS: Making it real with AIOps. When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. Gartner data also indicates that at least 81% of organizations have adopted a multicloud strategy. A resource guide to Dynatrace and AWS for AWS re:Invent.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We’ve worked closely with our partner AWS to deliver a complete, end-to-end picture of your cloud environment that includes monitoring support for all AWS services. Now Dynatrace is pleased to announce another industry first: automatic, end-to-end observability for AWS Lambda functions in Node.js and Python via traces.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We recently attended the PostgresConf event in San Jose to hear from the most active PostgreSQL user base on their database management strategies. AWS, however, has taken a significant leap from our last report, where they now average 77.4% AWS was not the only cloud provider to grow – we found that 19.4%

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. Enterprise-grade observability and root-cause detection for AWS Lambda functions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. Enterprise-grade observability and root-cause detection for AWS Lambda functions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Versatile, feature-rich cloud computing environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP have been a game-changer. Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Welcome to the first post in our exciting series on mastering offline data pipeline's best practices, focusing on the potent combination of Apache Airflow and data processing engines like Hive and Spark. In this kickoff post, we delve into the intricacies of Apache Airflow and AWS EMR, a managed cluster platform for big data processing.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, this baseline measurement has become an important component of our sustainability strategy. For example, Dynatrace has been able to view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center along with top CO2e emitters within a specific host group. A host-level breakdown of energy consumption and CO2e impact.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Setup the Dynatrace AWS CloudWatch Integration. Step #1: Install Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 2021 set to be a new high for the number of data breaches , it was plainly evident that we needed to evolve how we approach our cloud infrastructure security strategy. We currently process tens of millions of log records every minute and analyze these events to perform in-house custom detections.

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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. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A key takeaway from this talk is how important it is to be aware of the different sampling strategies and know which one makes sense for your application in a particular overload situation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As more organizations invest in a multicloud strategy, improving cloud operations and observability for increased resilience becomes critical to keep up with the accelerating pace of digital transformation. The team couldn’t do everything within AWS, so they contracted some pieces to several SaaS providers. .

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

An exception to this trend is when we redirect traffic between AWS data centers during regional evacuations, which leads to sudden spikes in traffic in multiple regions. 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.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. There is a tendency to micromanage and add process overhead that needs to be resisted. As an employee, it’s usually best to leave in the first wave of cuts.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A key takeaway from this talk is how important it is to be aware of the different sampling strategies and know which one makes sense for your application in a particular overload situation.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

com and the strategies we use to keep it up and running with high availability. These are some of the highlights: We went from processing a couple of million logins per month to 1.5+ We doubled-down decided to use a single cloud provider for each of our environments and moved all our public cloud infrastructure to AWS.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG embodies a set of criteria that guides an organization’s strategy, measures the organization’s impact, and informs potential investors across these three pillars. For example, you could view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center or top CO2e emitters within a specific host group. Filters help narrow your focus.

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Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 188

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, help to automate the process of upscaling or downscaling compute power by providing autoscaling groups. As the expected behavior of spot instances is that they are shut down within 5 minutes of their creation, the traditional strategy of availability alerting isn’t viable.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy. A recent report by RightScale found that 69% of businesses have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy by combining both public clouds and private clouds. of PostgreSQL deployments were leveraging a multi-cloud strategy. were in the process of migrating to PostgreSQL and the last 14.1%

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

This release extends auto-adaptive baselines to the following generic metric sources, all in the context of Dynatrace Smartscape topology: Built-in OneAgent infrastructure monitoring metrics (host, process, network, etc.). Cloud platform metrics (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc.). Custom log metrics. Synthetic monitor metrics.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

While AWS EBS snapshots were mentioned the most, the likes of persistent disk snapshots on GCP, Azure-managed disk snapshots, or local storage, as well as k8s snapshot capabilities, were also playing a crucial part in the backup strategies. I am happy to announce that with PBM 2.2.0, Now why Technical Preview, you may ask?

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes ( for example, cloud provider infrastructure ) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS m onitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage.

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