The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. How could we improve the quality of life for data scientists?

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. Platform engineering: Build for self-service Self-service deployment is a key attribute of platform engineering. “It makes them more productive.

Engineering 230

Engineering Development DevOps Infrastructure 230

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.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Whilst our traditional Dynatrace website predominantly showcases Dynatrace content and product information for visitors, the idea behind the creation of our new Engineering website – engineering.dynatrace.com – was to set up a space to feature the results of our research and innovation efforts and aims to be a site made by engineers for engineers.

Engineering 256

Engineering Open Source Website Innovation 256

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026.

Engineering 262

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 262

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to platform engineering, not only does observability play a vital role in the success of organizations’ transformation journeys—it’s key to successful platform engineering initiatives. The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle.

Engineering 172

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 172

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” Atlassian Jira.

DevOps 180

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 180

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 73

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

With 99% of organizations using multicloud environments , effectively monitoring cloud operations with AI-driven analytics and automation is critical. IT operations analytics (ITOA) with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities supports faster cloud deployment of digital products and services and trusted business insights.

Analytics 178

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 178

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations.

Scalability 251

Scalability Open Source Analytics Innovation 251

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

Google 211

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 211

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

Metrics 169

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 169

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms. But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing. Certainly, this is true for us.

Energy 222

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 222

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. Keynotes were focused on how Kubernetes and Cloud Native help businesses embrace the new AI era.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Testsigma

JANUARY 31, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Testsigma Community Edition , the first ever open source test automation platform that works out of the box for web and mobile apps, and APIs. The Community Edition brings a core part of Testsigma’s cloud-based platform directly to the QA community. Manage less, test more.

Open Source 81

Open Source Mobile Scalability Testing 81

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Two-thirds say vulnerability management is becoming harder because of complex supply chain and cloud ecosystems. Security analytics combines data collection, aggregation, and analysis to search for and identify potential threats. Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems.

Analytics 220

Analytics Network Hardware Open Source 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

Artificial Intelligence 257

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 257

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. Why cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and open source require a radically different approach to application security.

Cloud 280

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 280

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. ScyllaDB Cloud vs. ScyllaDB On-Premises. ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing.

Open Source 333

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 333

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Collecting data requires massive and ongoing configuration efforts.

Cloud 254

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 254

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.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. But how is this data connected?

Analytics 180

Analytics Software Software Storage 180

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“Engineers today lack an easy way to track the tokens and prompt usage of their LLM applications in production. Resource consumption: Observing computational resource availability and saturation, whether deployed in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes or CPU-enabled servers.

Open Source 247

Open Source Metrics Latency Java 247

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today. When we started with Netflix migration to cloud, we looked at platforms like Rightscale and decided not to use them.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform for organizations adopting open source solutions to manage, scale, and automate application deployment. This complexity has surfaced seven top Kubernetes challenges that strain engineering teams and ultimately slow the pace of innovation. What is Kubernetes?

Open Source 181

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 181

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. Our Cloud Automation Roadshow brings the latest cloud-native automation practices to our attendees. Cloud Automation SLIs and SLOs can be changed through your git service and process of choice.

Cloud 211

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization 211

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. Dynatrace news.

AWS 179

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 179

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is. —?Software

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is. —?Software

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Without native log support, overhead and complexity grow OpenTelemetry, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project, introduced standards that enable companies to instrument, generate, and export telemetry data. When combined with out-of-the-box correlation, such telemetry data provides context-rich observability.

Open Source 203

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud 203

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Gaining visibility to manage the performance and security of serverless applications in distributed public clouds can be difficult. With an intelligent observability platform, operations and site reliability engineering teams can analyze, optimize, and troubleshoot applications in modern, large-scale, and heterogeneous environments.

Serverless 168

Serverless Architecture Open Source Innovation 168