The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! The internals here are outside the scope of this blog post.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. This Part 1 discusses Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while Part 2 presents the M/M/1 Queue. Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Designing systems for reliability Engineering teams must extend their focus beyond functional and load tests to instill assurance in the software release process via automated cycles.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 7, 2023

They can also use generative AI for cybersecurity, write prototype code, and implement complex software systems. This combined approach provides reliable answers for two key purposes,” wrote Dynatrace CTO Bernd Greifeneder in a May 2023 blog post. Visit our booth, number #2608, at Black Hat and c heck out our guide below.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it. blog comments powered by Disqus. Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s present in major platforms from Amazon Web Services to VMware, and services large and small. The amount of recordable data is broad, and ranges from basic user browser and web page information to detailed technical information about the system Log4j 2 is running on.

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Internet Internet Games Java 260

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Once you’ve crafted this foundation, a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) emerges, which you’ll present to the certificate authority, much like a knight presenting a decree to a king. showcases its dedication to providing a secure environment on select operating systems like Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9, and Amazon Linux 2023.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Without a centralized approach to vulnerability management, DevSecOps teams waste time figuring out how a vulnerability affects the production environment and which systems to fix first. The post Why vulnerability management enhances your cloud application security strategy appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Contextual insight.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

In this blog post, we present our project on Auto Remediation, which integrates the currently used rule-based classifier with an ML service and aims to automatically remediate failed jobs without human intervention. This presents the advantages of the integrated intelligence of the rule-based classifier and the ML service.

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Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Part 1 previously discussed Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while this post (Part 2) presents the M/M/1 Queue. In this Part 2, we conclude by presenting the M/M/1 Queue, which shows the answer to this third question is “no”: 3.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly adept at identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. But they also need a better strategy to address these attacks if they have IT systems and live applications that are already compromised. – blog. DevOps vs. DevSecOps – blog.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). It’s easy—no intermediaries and no redundant moving parts.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Watch webinar now!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. The post What is a message queue?

Monitoring 198

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 198

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2020

In part one, we began our discussion about intellectual debt by pointing out how machine learning systems contribute to the widening gap between what works and our understanding of why it works. We concluded by suggesting that the fuzziness of machine learning systems presents a fundamental problem for autonomous IT operations.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

With three sessions delivered around the globe and all but two presentations delivered live, it was great to set attendance records, and this is a testament to the strength of our partners and the community they create. The post Partner sales kick-off summary & NORAM awards: Amplify appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. The post AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

Analytics 214

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 214

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 254

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 254

Dynatrace

MAY 10, 2019

This announcement was made during the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston, where Dynatrace presented as one of the platinum partners. The post Dynatrace OneAgent supported for RHEL 8 deployments appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Please join us in congratulating Red Hat on this release, and stay tuned for further announcements.

Tuning 156

Tuning Cloud Technology Technology 156

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post discusses using the CLONE INSTANCE command with the safety option DATA DIRECTORY when you do not have enough disk space to store two datasets. However, when you clone a replica that already has a huge dataset, you may not have enough space for two datasets: one from the source server and data present on the replica.

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Open Source Servers Database Strategy 99

Percona

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction of pt-config-diff and the situation As you might know, the Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools used to perform various MySQL, MongoDB, and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. See more in this blog post: Using MySQL 8 Persisted System Variables.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

For example, performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (that is, problems that represent anomalies in baseline system performance). A feature that enables you to present log data in a filterable table that is easy to work with. Once Davis® detects a problem it lists the issue on your Problems feed.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 217

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

Analytics 180

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 180

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. This implies that when the status is unfavorable, implementing sophisticated alerting methods like error budget burn rate alerting presents challenges and is therefore not applicable.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

This is the second part of our blog series announcing the massive expansion of our Azure services support. Part 1 of this blog series looks at some of the key benefits of Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure HDInsight. Also, more detailed blog posts for selected Azure services are coming soon.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Automating IT practices without integrated AIOps presents several challenges. While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. The challenges of automating IT and how to combat them.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 188

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Import teams It is necessary to get ownership team information into the system and keep it updated. We’ll walk you through the various workflows and dashboards discussed in this blog post. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information. Contact us to schedule a demo.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This ensures that at least one backup is present at all times. For more information, see Dynatrace Managed system requirements. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.204 appeared first on Dynatrace blog. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.204 appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Storage Metrics Systems 103

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. If you are building resilient systems with failover, the control plane that manages failover is often the hardest part of the system to get right.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, one of the most challenging areas is the use of thick client presentation layers, such as SAP’s Graphical User Interface (SAPGUI). . SAP provides SAP GUI , known as one of the presentation layers to access ECC and S/4HANA applications. The SAPGUI observability challenge .

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