The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds for enhanced control. What is Multi-Cloud? But what do these entail?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively? Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As global warming advances, growing IT carbon footprints are pushing energy-efficient computing to the top of many organizations’ priority lists. Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Thinking about going multi-cloud? A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Explain cloud computing to me at a professional level? Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. Another key benefit of cloud computing is its reliability and availability. Which cloud provider would you recommend?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Indeed, organizations view IT modernization and cloud computing as intertwined with their business strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. As a result, reliance on cloud computing for infrastructure and application development has increased during the pandemic era. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cloud environments—including multicloud, hybrid, and cloud-native ecosystems—offer unmatched agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, though they also present new challenges and complexities that are impossible to manage manually.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As more organizations invest in a multicloud strategy, improving cloud operations and observability for increased resilience becomes critical to keep up with the accelerating pace of digital transformation. American Family turned to observability for cloud operations. Step 2: Instrument compute and serverless cloud technologies.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Overseeing cloud spend and IT resource allocation has always been a priority for CIOs. Yet, in 2023, 82% of cloud decision makers reported that managing cloud spend was their top challenge, according to one source. Teams provision and purchase many cloud services that end up underused or completely unused.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

It surfaces any monitoring gaps, whether they are unmonitored or under-monitored hosts or clouds, and automatically assesses host criticality, combining insights from Smartscape, cloud platforms, and eBPF Service Discovery. If a specific cloud is not adequately monitored, the cloud integration can easily be set up.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. OpenShift is developed by Red Hat and can run in a variety of environments — both cloud and on premises.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software automation is the practice of creating software applications to reduce or eliminate human intervention in repetitive, time-consuming IT tasks and cloud operations. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. What is software automation?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. The importance of ITOps cannot be overstated, especially as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Imagine this scenario: your application frontend is hosted in a public cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), while the backend operates within a Nutanix cluster. Dynatrace and the Nutanix extension provide you with a comprehensive view that spans on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Containerized microservices have made it easier for organizations to create and deploy applications across multiple cloud environments without worrying about functional conflicts or software incompatibilities. Kubernetes enables efficient resource utilization by easily scaling applications and services based on demand. Networking.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Bridge the gaps while staying secure While more and more applications are moving to the cloud, the need for secure environments isn’t going away. EdgeConnect facilitates seamless interaction, ensuring data security and operational efficiency. Figure 2: Editing the host pattern of an existing EdgeConnect configuration.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. It coincides with the advent of complex, distributed cloud technologies such as microservices and containers. Infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration management tool. Atlassian Jira.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While customers use observability platforms to identify issues in cloud environments, the next chapter of value is removing manual work from processes and building IT automation into their organizations. They can be proactive in identifying issues in cloud environments. “It Data-driven cloud optimization.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Logs can include information about user activities, system events, network traffic, and other various activities that can help to detect and respond to critical security incidents.

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