Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For more on cloud migration and the role of modern observability, read on. . Modern observability platforms enable teams to gain the benefits of cloud infrastructure while retaining visibility. . 5 Steps to accelerate your cloud migration with Dynatrace – blog . – blog . – blog .

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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. For brevity we skipped annotating ladder points with their spatial resolutions but the overall observations from our previous article on SDR-4K encode optimization apply here as well. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

The internals here are outside the scope of this blog post. A few years ago, as noted in this blog , only about a hundred services were using Telltale; thanks to Atlas Streaming we have now managed to onboard thousands of other services at Netflix. OK, Results?

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

So, I figured it’s about time I summarized the top reasons why you as an ITOps person need to look beyond your typical IT sources – logs, metrics and traces – which are these days known as Observability data. In this Omni-channel world, looking at observability data to figure out what the user’s digital experience was won’t help you.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Business analytics relies on business observability, a natural evolution of how we think of full-stack observability. When it comes to connecting what could be known as the last great silo – or the gap between business teams and IT operations, business analytics enable collaboration by introducing a shared view of success.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

We had a fun conversation with his team, and we realized that some parts of it might make a good blog post as well. So we jointly edited a bit for length and clarity, and are posting here as well as on OfferFit’s blog. Adding this observational data layer makes user research much higher fidelity. Hope you enjoy the result.?—?Travis

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The county’s IT team were now on alert, and sprang into action, using Dynatrace’s deep observability to find answers. For this to be successful the County realized that they needed an early warning system to notify them of the unknown. Co-Authored Blog by Alex Handy @thinkoalex at Red Hat and Peter Hack @hackatdt at Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

” In response, I’d like to share with you my subjective NAM story. An agent-based approach with microscope-level observability of every transaction from inside the production server runtime revolutionized the way application teams managed their applications. Observability, as a standard, didn’t exist ten years ago.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service. We used Zipkin to consume the traces, which allowed us to search for a trace by path.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And 20% of the time the result from the test will be a false negative: in truth, there is an effect, but our observation from the test does not lie in the rejection region and we fail to conclude that there is an effect. Follow the Netflix Tech Blog to stay up to date. As a hypothetical, say that, for effect sizes smaller than a 0.1%

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set. The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. In particular, the Kafka integration is the most relevant for this blog post.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There were also side tracks on Web Assembly and Observability. 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. Final thoughts… this blog post took me a week to finish writing, and it’s already out of date.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read on to learn more about generative AI, causal AI, predictive AI, and how the AWS platform, alongside observability, promotes digital transformation, cloud modernization, and cloud migration without compromising application performance and security. What is causal AI? What is predictive AI? What is AIOps? But what is AIOps, exactly?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each observation is the time interval between a Netflix member hitting the play button and playback commencing, i.e., play-delay. These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment. The dotted black line indicates the nominal alpha=0.05

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Testlodge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Long story short – poor usability. Long story short – great usability here. Because identifying those flaws is critical to success, what should be done? In the majority of cases, the best way to do this is by having users test your product while observing their behavior as they do so. The answer is Usability Testing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It’s no surprise, then, that financial services companies have adapted their competitive strategies to emphasize customer experience over product and usability over location through the use of business observability. Our first story comes from a commercial bank serving clients with funds transfers and currency exchanges.

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Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Much like the story about the blind men interpreting the elephant as a snake, a tree, a wall, a rope; individual experiences at a small scale are all accurate, but being able to extrapolate it to the whole is important to look at the bigger picture. It is their own story to write and catalyze, and inspire more teams to join in.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

LinkedIn and Indeed both recommend staying for at least three years, though they observe that younger employees change jobs more often. We observed some of the same patterns that we saw with programming languages. Google Cloud is an obvious omission from this story. Is this a sign of what some have called a “great resignation”?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. This blog post will delve into the techniques leveraged at Netflix to introduce these changes to production.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2019

Over the last couple of weeks, Chad Turner from NYCM allowed me to share several internal success stories they had when applying Dynatrace for different Ops Use Cases. If you want to catch up on some of them check out Supporting IT help desk , Supporting Disaster Recovery, or the Making Davis more Human story.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While there have been many great stories of how customers relied on the Dynatrace platform as their “Single source of truth” during the chaos, and how it enabled them to deliver massive transformation seemingly over-night, one story of a banking customer solving an 11-figure (dollars) problem stands out to me. Derek Darling.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The path to “Architected for Resiliency” is long, but it clearly pays off in the long run, especially when outages occur, as I want to show you in this blog post. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #3: Minimum impact detected through synthetics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The stories on Netflix are multidimensional and there are many ways that a single story could appeal to different members. In a previous blog post we explained how our artwork personalization algorithm can pick the best image for each member, but how do we create a good set of images to choose from?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). To address this concern and increase the chances of a successful modernization, we previously wrote about an effective pattern we have observed in our work as consultants working with various clients — Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. A comprehensive list of benefits offered by Cosmos can be found in the linked blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Last year we wrote a blog post about how Data Mesh helped our Studio team enable data movement use cases. We’ll have blog posts deep dive into them. Over the past year, we have observed an increasing demand for all sorts of needs in other domains such as Machine Learning, Logging, etc. Data Mesh is a complex yet powerful system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

A framework to identify the causal impact of successful visual components. We are going to make an assumption that the presence of a specific component will lead to an artwork’s success. In other words, we can learn which attributes led to a title’s successful selection based on its artwork.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Does the metric story hang together? With something like the Top 10 test, for example, we might observe that certain design and row positioning choices generally lead to positive metric movements, some of which are statistically significant. Follow the Netflix Tech Blog to stay up to date. In Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We’re sharing our story to inspire others and encourage conversations around applicability elsewhere. Due to the loose coupling, we observed that many teams spent considerable effort building duplicative data-fetching code and aggregation layers to support their product needs. 1) Single-use aggregation layers?—?Due

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the last few years, AIOps and observability have come charging into this domain and Dynatrace took some time to discuss the differences and what they mean with our community during a recent event of ours, sampling whisky. Once we have these metrics, we must make sense of them – this moves us on to observability. Observability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 18, 2021

At Northbridge, a future-forward employee experience was a key strategic initiative with four goals for automation: establish complete observability, improve service, introduce a NoOps approach to eliminate risk, and increase collaboration among teams. How Northbridge Financial achieved a successful NoOps approach.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Initially, there was a lot of skepticism and dissent; the concept was fairly new and would require high alignment across the organization to be successful. Check out their conference talk and expect a future blog post from our colleagues. from our journey implementing it to lessons learned. We prioritized three areas: Alerting ?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Quality Data Mesh provides metrics and dashboards at both the processor and pipeline level for operational observability. However, our story doesn’t end here. We will have follow up blog posts on these topics in future. Old data files are overwritten with a set of new data files that contain only the compacted data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

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