The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date! By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Supporting those workflows poses new challenges to our packaging service.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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. These two processes feed into one another.

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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

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. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?

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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

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

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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Traditional tools struggle with the intricacy of modern cloud services and containerized applications. These complex cloud environments obscure visibility and complicate troubleshooting, especially as teams take on the daunting task of pinpointing the exact root cause of issues. Host process analysis with interactive features.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Rising cloud complexity has made securing cloud-native and multicloud applications significantly more difficult. With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, the process of obtaining FedRAMP certifications is expected to become more streamlined. This new focus on cloud visibility underscores its importance in ensuring comprehensive monitoring and transparency across the network. In line with this theme of security, zero-trust frameworks will remain a top priority.

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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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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.

Cloud 156

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

But up to now, FedRAMP has been viewed as a bottleneck process that delays the delivery of cloud services, which ultimately hurts modernization efforts. For the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, there are expectations for the quicker release and uptake of task orders.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The OMB memo states that agencies must meet specific goals based on the five pillars of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model : identity, devices, networks, applications/workloads, and data. A quick refresher: what is zero trust?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

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