The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. Managing this change is difficult.

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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 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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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 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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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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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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cloud observability can bring business value, said Rick McConnell, CEO at Dynatrace. Organizations have clearly experienced growth, agility, and innovation as they move to cloud computing architecture. But without effective cloud observability, they continue to experience challenges in their cloud environments.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

Anyone moving to the cloud knows that it isn’t just a change from running servers in your data center to running them in someone else’s data center. If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. Dynatrace news. Automatic and easy.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner.

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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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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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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is becoming more of a critical issue as cloud-based applications gain popularity. The cloud allows a modular approach to building applications, enabling development and operations teams to create and deploy feature-rich apps very quickly. What is cloud application security?

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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.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

For IT teams seeking agility, cost savings, and a faster on-ramp to innovation, a cloud migration strategy is critical. Cloud migration enables IT teams to enlist public cloud infrastructure so an organization can innovate without getting bogged down in managing all aspects of IT infrastructure as it scales.

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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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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

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services.

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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

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. Additionally, Dynatrace’s Micha? ski explains.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To gain greater agility, Porsche Informatik migrated to a containerized, hybrid cloud environment. But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It’s cliched to say that cloud adoption has changed everything in this race, but a full understanding of the intricacies of cloud-native applications is still rare. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. But where does the fault lie?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Paul Puckett, Director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA). Cloud integration and application performance monitoring at the federal level is in full force. Puckett and Steve Mazzuca, Director DoD Programs at Dynatrace, discussed Mr. Puckett’s role in this large-scale, multi-cloud transformation. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

Infrastructure exists to support the backing services that are collectively perceived by users to be your web application. Issues that manifest themselves as performance degradation on a user’s device can often be traced back to underlying infrastructure issues. Dynatrace news. Monitor additional metrics.

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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

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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cloud deployments have grown rapidly in recent years, and enterprise hybrid and multicloud environments have become the new standard, resulting in new challenges such as: Keeping up with dynamic, autoscaling environments where instances, applications and microservices come and go fast. Dynatrace news.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Dynatrace SaaS availability on Azure helps the world’s largest organizations achieve this through enabling faster cloud adoption and more effective digital transformation. This enables organizations to tame cloud complexity, minimize risk, and reduce manual effort so teams can focus on driving innovation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

In fact, according to technology intelligence analyst firm HG Insights , OpenTelemetry is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s second most active project after Kubernetes and is used by more than 1,600 organizations worldwide, with customer adoption growing at a compound annual growth rate of 59%. Ingest and multiplex data.

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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. Usage reduction is a continuous process.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To gain greater agility, Porsche Informatik migrated to a containerized, hybrid cloud environment. But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik.

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