The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. It can be integrated as a drop-in solution, i.e., we do not need any other changes on the Netflix encoding side or the client device side.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

In this blog, I want to guide you through the steps of implementing release quality gates in your delivery automation or as we often call it “ Shift-Left SLOs with Quality Gates ”. Whether it’s used to automate your test analysis or fully integrated into your delivery pipeline, this blog will guide you through it!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications. This blog wil cover the importance of platform engineering, the role of a platform engineer, and where the practice is heading in the future. Why is platform engineering important?

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

What is Fluent Bit? SQL processor: Integration of SQL processing capabilities for precise data selection and routing, allowing users to filter logs and traces based on specific criteria for optimized backend storage. Be sure you can achieve what you want with Fluent Bit; otherwise, you might need to look into other options.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

The trick then becomes being able to immediately detect if your organization is affected, how badly, and what systems to remediate first to minimize the effects. What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference – blog Vulnerability management is an essential part of securing IT operations.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integration with the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform takes automated remediation to a whole new level. In some cases, this meant testing my scripted methodology hundreds of times before deploying to production in order to catch every nuance and condition that could affect the result.

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Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. While being integrated with the system, each component is analyzed individually.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

in October 2020 where I’ll specifically focus on how Keptn integrates and automates on top of Dynatrace Davis. In this blog, I want to dig a bit into a core capability of Keptn which is used across all use cases: SLI/SLO-based Evaluations for Quality Gates as well as Auto-Remediation. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. With this integration, Dynatrace customers can now leverage Terraform to manage their monitoring infrastructure as code,” said Asad Ali, Senior Director of Sales Engineering at Dynatrace. What is monitoring as code?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

So, what is IT automation? And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? What is IT automation? Automating IT practices without integrated AIOps presents several challenges. Testing automation can be painstaking. How does IT automation work?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Three years ago, I toured through the US, Europe, and Asia giving hands-on training sessions on what I then called the “Unbreakable Delivery Pipeline Tour”. You may be asking yourself now: “ Unbreakable WHAT??”. Dynatrace news. Hands-on 1: Your first quality gate. This is where the dashboard-based quality gate definition comes in.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Our colleagues wrote a Netflix Tech Blog post describing the details of this architecture. As you may recall from a previous blog post , Netflix has standardized on Spring Boot for backend development. The schema is what makes GraphQL so powerful and different from REST. Our framework is battle-hardened by our use at scale.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Cloud operations and observability boost resilience for American Family – blog. Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale – blog. Dynatrace introduces automatic vulnerability management for PHP open source scripting language – blog.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By integrating runtime vulnerability management into DevSecOps practices, teams can immediately detect and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities like Log4Shell in their environments. Moreover, modern observability capabilities provide context about activity in an IT environment so teams know what is most critical to address first.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2022

An effective DevSecOps strategy helps organizations to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure the integrity of software in development and of runtime applications. “This is the core of what all security solutions should provide,” he says. What is the impact?

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. But what separates proper planning from, well, “planning” planning? But what separates proper planning from, well, “planning” planning? Are you looking to cut costs? Free yourself from lock-in?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At this year’s AWS re:Invent 2022, attendees will once again explore what it means to modernize IT assets for cloud-native environments. 5 Steps to accelerate your cloud migration with Dynatrace – blog . What is application modernization? How to pick an application modernization strategy – blog .

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In my previous blog post, Path to NoOps part 1: How modern AIOps brings NoOps within reach, I explored the aspirations of NoOps and how modern AIOps makes it possible. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. One of the powerful workflows to leverage is continuous release validation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

As organizations aim for faster delivery of value to their customers, the frequency of releases inevitably increases, which introduces risks and uncertainty into production systems—unless automated tests and quality gates can be leveraged to provide confidence. What are quality gates? What’s next. How the evaluation works.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

As our CTO Bernd Greifeneder shared in his blog post , what was a relatively small software release resulted in a large number of our customers b eing una ble to access their Dynatrace environments. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

From upholding data integrity to ensuring no data is lost during the transition, there’s a lot to consider. What is the best path to migrate? What’s your plan to mitigate or minimize downtime? What’s your plan to mitigate or minimize downtime? Quality assurance: How do you plan to test?

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Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 83

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Let me give you an overview of what was shown and let me answer questions we couldn’t answer during the webinar due to a technical glitch on the webinar platform! The integration with Dynatrace has two sides: first, it pulls metrics from Dynatrace while Akamas is executing an experiment. Q3: Is Akamas a SaaS offering or on-premise?

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Performance Java Metrics Cloud 185

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). In Part 1 we’ll dive into: The need to extend synthetic tests to cope with the CDN-error blind spot. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2020

In my last blog I covered how our Engineering Productivity (EP) and Infrastructure & Services (IAS) Teams are ensuring that our DevOps tool chain is running as expected, even while workloads have shifted as our global engineering teams are now working from home. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace news. 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.

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 176

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

What is a message queue? What is the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol? It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. Dynatrace news. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As more organizations adopt continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) , teams can release more frequently, often multiple times per day. Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

What is a message queue? What is the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol? It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. Dynatrace news. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

What are quality gates? Keptn closes the loop of planning, testing, deployment, and analysis in Agile-like environments with the help of quality gates defined by service- and business-level indicators. Keptn integrates seamlessly with Jenkins and other deployment tools. Dynatrace news. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. What they don’t need is a big, expensive security overhaul that could spend them out of business. DevSecOps taking hold.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But the question here is what all the hype about SDLC is? What is SDLC? What is SDLC? You can plan, create, deploy, test and maintain software apps and information systems. SDLC – What’s the Difference? SDLC means software development life cycle, while STLC means software testing life cycle.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. Amid so much change, teams can no longer rely on time-consuming, manual approaches for building, testing, operating, and upgrading software.

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