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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

At Amazon's scale, a miscalculated metric, like cost per unit, or delayed data can have a huge impact (think millions of dollars). The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster. It would later become known internally as the Galaxy data lake.

Big Data 209
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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. In the previous section, we noted that many distributed query processing algorithms resemble message passing networks. It is conceptually similar to the in-stream processing pipelines.

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What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

Dynatrace

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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What is ITOps? Why IT operations is more crucial than ever in a multicloud world

Dynatrace

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. A network administrator sets up a network, manages virtual private networks (VPNs), creates and authorizes user profiles, allows secure access, and identifies and solves network issues.

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Any analysis, any time: Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail

Dynatrace

Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes. The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously. Even in cases where all data is available, new challenges can arise.

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