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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A. Choudhury, L.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

This results in site reliability engineers nudging development teams to add resource attributes, endpoints, and tokens to their source code. The OpenTelemetry Operator can be used for automated instrumentation, or metrics and resources can be added using open source libraries for each language. What’s ahead in 2023.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You need to go deeper into the stack — into the infrastructure itself. The latest enhancement enables our customers to automatically detect and assess open-source and third-party vulnerabilities in Node.js Davis, the Dynatrace AI-engine, uses exposure information to assess risk and impact and helps avoid false positives.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. By automatically feeding these captured metrics into our Smartscape topology model and Davis AI, we eliminate the need for manual maintenance of hundreds of alerts thanks to our true and trusted auto-adaptive baseline engine.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data. Next steps.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. Now, Dynatrace applies Davis, its AI engine, to monitor the new log sources.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Principal engineer at Google and co-founder of KubeCon, Hightower advocates simplicity and automation. I’ll make some assumptions, read multiple blog posts, and I need to run it myself a couple of times. Infrastructure as code vs infrastructure as data. Hightower likes to think of it as infrastructure as data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse with a massively parallel processing analytics engine, unites observability, security, and business data from multicloud and cloud-native environments while retaining the data’s context to deliver precise answers in real time. What is a data lakehouse?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. What is monitoring as code?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog, we share three log ingestion strategies from the field that demonstrate how building up efficient log collection can be environment-agnostic by using our generic log ingestion application programming interface (API). Yet observability into syslog data on Dynatrace would help you monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the Advancing DevOps and DevSecOps track, sessions aim to help security pros, developers, and engineers as they brace for new threats that are costly and time-consuming to address. The vulnerability is located in Log4j 2, an open-source Apache Java software used to run logging services in a host of front-end and backend applications.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Amazon EC2.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

OneAgent technology simplifies deployment across large enterprises and relieves engineers of the burden of instrumenting their applications by hand. If you’re new to Dynatrace this should feel like a breath of fresh air compared to existing commercial and open-source solutions. Dynatrace news. What’s ahead. New to Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dynatrace enables our customers to monitor and optimize their cloud infrastructure and applications through the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. That spans across the platform, our website, support platform, our business backends, as well as our open source projects such as Keptn.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source software toolkit used for event monitoring and alerting. This means Dynatrace isn’t collecting the metrics on the Prometheus server, but directly at the source of truth – the exporters. Significant reduction of maintenance tasks related to Prometheus infrastructure. What is Prometheus?

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Take Davis, our AI engine , for example – we embedded this into our Software Intelligence Platform before many were even using an AI engine to determine root-cause and auto-remediate. The post Beyond APM: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability – A Partner Perspective appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2021

Kubernetes (K8s) is the platform of choice for many organizations, providing a portable, extensible, open-source solution designed to streamline containerized workload oversight. ” At the core is the Dynatrace deterministic AI engine, Davis. But who watches the watchers? ” . . Experience management. Read eBook now!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer. Additionally, problems can be caused by changes in the cloud infrastructure.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development. With AIOps , practitioners can apply automation to IT operations processes to get to the heart of problems in their infrastructure, applications and code.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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Uber Engineering

JANUARY 19, 2023

Uber heavily relies on open source technologies for the Data analytics stack. In this blog post, we dive into the technical details behind solutions that helped us scale the adoption of Kerberos for authentication for the entire Data analytics infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 182

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

IT operations, application, infrastructure, and development teams all look to the topic of observability as the silver bullet to solve their problems. Neglecting the front-end perspective potentially skews or even misrepresents the understanding of how your applications and infrastructure are performing in the real world, to real users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

This is disrupting journalism, education, marketing, and search engine optimization, as well as causing concerns around deep fake images. As Uwe Friedrichsen discusses in his blog post ChatGPT Already Knows , the value of detailed knowledge used to be high, but is now being commoditized. Tristan Zajonc, CEO of Continual.ai

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many of you know that we at MachMetrics use WPT as our engine as well. Source: Catchpoint.com. With millions of consistent users, there was some concern within the industry that webpagetest.org might now become a paid service, or that it would no longer be open source. Source: Catchpoint. This is great news!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. An application could rely on dozens or even hundreds of Lambdas and other infrastructure. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. The post What is AWS Lambda?

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Uber Engineering

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

These microservices support a variety of solutions, such as mobile applications, internal and infrastructure services, and products along with complex … The post Observability at Scale: Building Uber’s Alerting Ecosystem appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Software Architecture Architecture Mobile Infrastructure 107

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2019

In this blog post, I’ll cover how to implement distributed tracing in Flask applications with the OneAgent SDK. Flaskr: A simple blog application. This is a simple blog application— open source , and part of the online tutorial to learn how to develop with the Flask framework. sdk = getsdk(). sdk = getsdk().

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Monitoring Software Software Database 135

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As a solution, teams often adopt open source observability tools like OpenTelemetry to gain situational awareness of their cloud-native environments. Open source observability tools help address cloud complexity. Using open-source tools to tame cloud complexity can lead to data silos.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. blog comments powered by Disqus. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

In this blog, we deep dive into the various aspects of mobile website testing, including the tools that can accelerate the testing process. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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