The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data proliferation—as well as a growing need for data analysis—has accelerated. They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

In today’s digital world, software is everywhere. Software is behind most of our human and business interactions. This, in turn, accelerates the need for businesses to implement the practice of software automation to improve and streamline processes. What is software automation? What is software analytics?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. That’s because every company is now a software company. As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. Much of the software developed today is cloud native.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. So how can organizations ensure data quality, reliability, and freshness for AI-driven answers and insights?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Why organizations are turning to software development to deliver business value. Digital immunity has emerged as a strategic priority for organizations striving to create secure software development that delivers business value. Software development success no longer means just meeting project deadlines. Observability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With digital systems growing exponentially in size and complexity, industry trends like AIOps and DevSecOps are becoming the norm for application performance m onitoring (APM) and observability tools such as Dynatrace. Does that mean that reactive and exploratory data analysis, often done manually and with the help of dashboards, are dead?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

Analytics 184

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 184

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Rather, they must be bolstered by additional technological investments to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency. However, these practices cannot stand alone.

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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. What is open source software?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Speed Software Software Latency 203

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Software should forward innovation and drive better business outcomes. But legacy, custom software can often prevent systems from working together, ultimately hindering growth. Data supports this need for organizations to flex and modernize. Conversely, an open platform can promote interoperability and innovation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Certification by an independent assessor includes an audit of the company’s information security measures, including its infrastructure, processes, and data protection practices. Dynatrace recently passed this rigorous audit process and successfully demonstrated its ability to handle data securely.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now we’re adding Smartscape to DQL and two new data sources to Grail: Metrics on Grail and Traces on Grail. Ensuring observability across these environments requires access to data at a massive scale. You no longer need to split, distribute, or pre-aggregate your data. Grail solves this scalability issue!

Analytics 226

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Risk in banking is broad and interconnected.

Analytics 197

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 197

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. What is open source software?

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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. What is open source software?

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, organizations prioritized efficiency and cost reduction while facing soaring inflation. Data indicates these technology trends have taken hold. 2: AI-generated code will create the need for digital immune systems. 4: Data observability will become mandatory. Technology prediction No. Technology prediction No.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. This contextualization of log data enables AI-powered problem detection and root cause analysis at scale. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

Architecture 243

Architecture Software Software Development 243

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity. Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? This is the problem domain on which Keptn can help Platform Engineers provide a solution and guard rails for teams to deploy software that works perfectly.

Open Source 264

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

Engineering 246

Engineering Software Engineering Scalability Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Commonly, AIOps solutions’ typical characteristics are to ingest pre-aggregated data from various solutions across the IT management tooling landscape and conclude what is of relevance in order to focus the user’s attention to the relevant situations. The second major concern I want to discuss is around the data processing chain.

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Software Software Artificial Intelligence Metrics 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. Safeguarding against vulnerabilities, data breaches, and emerging threats while meeting regulatory compliance, legal requirements, and customer expectations borders on the impossible without a holistic approach.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform provides you with so much more monitoring functionality. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

For many, the driving force behind custom solution development is today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving digital landscape, in which organizations find themselves in a race to automate repetitive tasks, drive data-backed decisions, and do more with less.

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