The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. Vulnerabilities or hardware failures can disrupt deployments and compromise application security.

Open Source 258

Open Source Hardware DevOps Infrastructure 258

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization.

Availability 240

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 240

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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services.

Efficiency 206

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With this solution, customers will be able to use Dynatrace’s deep observability , advanced AIOps capabilities , and application security to all applications, services, and infrastructure, out-of-the-box. This means you no longer have to procure new hardware, which can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

Azure 316

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 316

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. ITOps teams are responsible for establishing, maintaining, and growing a reliable, high-performing, and secure IT infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

With the ability to generate new content—such as images, text, audio, and other data—based on patterns and examples taken from existing data, organizations are rushing to capitalize on the AI model. As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks.

Artificial Intelligence 221

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 221

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 337

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Can you expand?

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

IBM Power servers enable customers to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Full stack observability: Gain comprehensive observability across the entire stack, including Kubernetes clusters, applications, and underlying infrastructure.

Architecture 165

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 165

Uber Engineering

JANUARY 26, 2023

We recently containerized Hadoop NameNodes and upgraded hardware, improving NameNode RPC queue time from ~200 to ~20ms – A 10x improvement! With this radical change, Uber’s Hadoop customers are happier and admins rest more at night.

Infrastructure 90

Infrastructure Hardware 90

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

The IT infrastructure and services will reach $35.98 This article discusses the profound influence these elements have on IT operations within the utility and energy sector, providing a robust and adaptive infrastructure for the future. The global IT operations and service management market is expected to grow by 7.5% billion by 2025.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These rapid changes — as well as the increasing volume and variety of data created — require a new approach to observability. Monolithic applications earned their name because their structure is a single running application, which often shares the same physical infrastructure. Let’s break it down. Centralized applications.

Cloud 220

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 220

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. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Further, the toolset had been in place for 20 years resulting in high annual software maintenance and infrastructure costs. Saving budget expenditures with tool rationalization Issues arise when there are multiple, disparate tools collecting data. More tools will lead to more voices saying, “Not my problem.” over five years.

Government 157

Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 157

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Observability provides banks and other financial institutions with real-time insight into their IT environment, including applications, infrastructure, and network traffic.

Cloud 213

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 213

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Infrastructure as code is also known as software-defined infrastructure, or software intelligence as code. and 2.14.1.

Serverless 256

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 256

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. Data Center Dynamics highlights a significant uptick in DBaaS adoption, growing from 40% to 45% between 2019 and 2020. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT. Benefits of observability.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services.

Cloud 161

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss. As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables. Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication.

C++ 78

C++ Database Storage Testing 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Amazon EventBridge: EventBridge to bridges the data gap between your applications and other services, such as Lambda or specific SaaS apps.

Serverless 272

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 272

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log files contain much of the data that makes a system observable: for example, records of all events that occur throughout the operating system, network devices, pieces of software, or even communication between users and application systems.

Analytics 201

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 201

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. Dynatrace news. As a result, VA had to rapidly scale its on-premises Citrix environment.

Cloud 171

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 171

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure , Li et al., Gandalf analyses more than 20TB of data per day : 270K platform events on average (770K peak), 600 million API calls, with data on over 2,000 different fault types. NSDI’20. Gandalf system design.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Data entering a stream. How does AWS Lambda work?

Lambda 174

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 174

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”. All-in-one, AI-powered monitoring of AWS applications and infrastructure. What is AWS Outposts?

AWS 193

AWS Design Cloud Storage 193

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Cloud-based solutions typically aren’t a viable option or enterprises that have strict security or privacy policies that require their data to be maintained on-premise. Some time ago we released a quick-start template for deploying Managed clusters on AWS infrastructure and Microsoft Azure is supported as well. Dynatrace news.

Cloud 201

Cloud Availability Azure Google 201

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. An orchestration platform needs to expose data about its internal states and activities in the form of logs, events, metrics, or transaction traces. Observability.

Open Source 294

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 294

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. Up until then, he had pushed JMeter data in other tools which made it harder to correlate it with the rest of the performance data captured by Dynatrace OneAgent.

Innovation 150

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 150

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures. Auer also explained how observability data is used to deliver insights to the business, through a fully automated monitoring service. Observability facilitates understanding and response at scale.

Retail 239

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 239