The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Application version adoption over time for a staged rollout This chart represents a counter metric, which exhibits version adoption over the duration of a staged rollout. Typically, teams time-shift one metric over the other to visually detect metric deviations, but time can still be a confounder.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Simply put, infrastructure monitoring is the oxygen to your infrastructure, collecting all the data for a complete picture of availability, performance, and resource efficiency. Let’s look at the world today.

Infrastructure 192

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 192

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

“The three pillars of observability at the time were metrics, logs, and traces,” Wilson said. Observability was built on the original concepts [of metrics, logs, and traces] but expanded for modern needs,” he continued. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility.

DevOps 157

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 157

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. Create a baseline of performance metrics and alert administrators when performance varies.

Artificial Intelligence 226

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 226

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Which got me thinking, what if we could send our own DIY kit for our Flow Metrics tool— Tasktop Viz —to our Fortune 500 customers across major industries such as automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and finance? . Typically, you will require a: Product Manager: Manages the build and maintenance of the value stream metrics product.

Metrics 52

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 52

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Metrics abstract you away from all details. You can gauge metrics fast, but you can’t (read shouldn’t) make a decision purely based on them.nnTo be honest, this concentration on metrics boggles my mind. As soon as some process (like gathering metrics) becomes a goal (vs. Metrics abstract you away from all details.

Software 245

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Definitely not. Users need to be able to rely on patterns and consistency to improve their work efficiency. The defined metrics will show the success of this test. Does this mean that we shouldn’t try different terminology and navigation patterns and should just repeat whatever is industry standard?

Java 245

Java Tuning Testing DevOps 245

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof.

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Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Which got me thinking, what if we could send our own DIY kit for our Flow Metrics tool— Tasktop Viz —to our Fortune 500 customers across major industries such as automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and finance? . Typically, you will require a: Product Manager: Manages the build and maintenance of the value stream metrics product.

Metrics 40

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 40

Tasktop

AUGUST 18, 2022

“The software delivery efficiency of [enterprise IT organizations] is abysmal when compared to that of digital startups or the tech giants”. Definition of value . Delivery Metrics. Definition of value. The product model aims to maximize agility and efficiency by reducing dependencies as much as possible.

Software 52

Software Software Metrics Speed 52

Tasktop

MAY 18, 2021

David goes into Viz at least once a week to look at his Flow Metrics. At one point, he noticed a simultaneous decline in three metrics: . Flow Efficiency was going down, indicating wait times were increasing in their processes. . I definitely don’t want work to get delayed in the last mile when it’s 95% done!” .

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Metrics Engineering Infrastructure 52

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

Metrics 220

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. Some responsibilities I routinely have are: designing tests, metrics development and defining what success looks like, building data pipelines and visualization tools for custom metrics, analyzing results, and communicating final recommendations with broad teams.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

However, it definitely is not. You will worry that they are wasting time or not working efficiently. Instead, you should adopt the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics. A lot of their ways of working will seem counter-intuitive to you. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem. a key indicator of sustainability.

Software Engineering 76

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 76

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 2, 2018

The aforementioned research shows that the most valued capabilities of code quality tools are finding security vulnerabilities, identifying violations of software design guidelines, and providing metrics on test coverage. When teams have common standards, metrics, and techniques, they are more productive. Autonomous teams.

Best Practices 62

Best Practices Architecture Metrics Code 62

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity. There, you’ll find the workflow definition, a notebook that guides you through the setup and ingest of a configuration event, and a simulation event to trigger the workflow. Got any more questions?

DevOps 278

DevOps Software Engineering Games Java 278

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Notice that in this definition, the role of the architect and technology strategist is not to merely serve the business but to play together. This document, the architecture definition , serves as the technologist's answer to the blueprint. Contain entropy.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Spring also introduced Micrometer, a vendor-agnostic metric API with rich instrumentation options. Soon after, Dynatrace built a registry for exporting Micrometer metrics. Our data APIs, which ingest millions of metrics, traces, and logs per second, are reconciled using Micrometer-based metrics.

Metrics 190

Metrics Analytics Speed Java 190

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

There are a lot of ways to perform cross-browser testing but the most efficient is to go for a cloud-based tool such as Testsigma. When you opt for an online cloud-based tool, you get the benefit of a well maintained and efficient infrastructure on the cloud. I mean, they are made just to perform these tests quickly and efficiently.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

Analytics 180

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 180

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

As a full stack monitoring platform, Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on your individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. New metric identifiers and structure.

Metrics 102

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. recommend using instead of C++ ( example ), so by definition addressing these four would address the immediate NIST/NSA/CISA/etc. MSLs get CVEs too, though definitely fewer (again, e.g., Log4j ). Efficiency. Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. This starts with a highly efficient ingestion pipeline that supports adding hundreds of petabytes daily. A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields. Thus, Grail was born.

Artificial Intelligence 261

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 261

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled. A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments. This approach is costly and error prone.

Availability 309

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 309

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Modern observability tools provide many metrics, but which ones are really important for your business? Dynatrace offers more than 2000 different metrics that are ready for use as dedicated SLIs. Read more about the basics of Site Reliability Engineering below.).

Metrics 148

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 148

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

Architecture 164

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 164

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. More Processing Patterns And Better Efficiency People use Data Mesh not only to move data. This article gives an overview of the system.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. Sustainability seeks a balance between human activity and the natural world.

Energy 179

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 179

Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The rebellion that Maxine joins uncovers a quagmire of project management and proxy metrics that so often lead both management and contributors into the weeds. This correlation goes beyond the fact that Gene and I collaborated around the Flow Metrics and the Five Ideals. Neither is Risk work (eg.,

Software Architecture 45

Software Architecture Architecture Metrics Software 45

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

With dependable near real-time data, Studio teams are able to track and react better to the ever-changing pace of productions and improve efficiency of global business operations using the most up-to-date information. Data Quality Data Mesh provides metrics and dashboards at both the processor and pipeline level for operational observability.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

The Morning Paper

MAY 30, 2019

Otherwise LeaseOS examines the collected utility metrics when a lease expires. For low-utility behaviour the definition may be app specific (and a cooperative developer can provide a utility callback), but some general heuristics still prove pretty useful, e.g. the frequency of exceptions raised. Extra hours.

Mobile 59

Mobile Energy Network Games 59

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe.

DevOps 211

DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 211

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As cloud environments become increasingly ubiquitous, so does the need for effective and efficient management. This helps organizations to achieve proactive prevention, efficient operation, faster remediation, strong protection, and business acceleration.

Cloud 167

Cloud DevOps Code Open Source 167

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

Like the tree in the forest, the microservice falling definitely made a sound. How OpenTelemetry works Observability data is the stock-in-trade of OpenTelemetry: Logs, metrics, and traces. We were able to collect every single trace and metric, and we were able to find problems that we honestly didn’t know we had.”

Open Source 189

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 189