The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

But because of the complexity involved in executing and analyzing test results of dynamic systems, performance engineering is difficult to scale — especially with lean staff or resources. Grabner also introduced four ways organizations can turbocharge their performance engineering with automation.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

The Core Web Vitals Metrics Generally, I approve of the Core Web Vitals metrics themselves ( Largest Contentful Paint , First Input Delay , Cumulative Layout Shift , and the nascent Interaction to Next Paint ). All user-centric Core Web Vitals metrics will be represented in the dataset.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. Observability: Elevating Logs, Metrics, and Traces!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily. Below are a couple of examples.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Very often, I heard that chaos engineering is only a technique used by larger companies (like Netflix) or in cloud native environments. You should read on if: You want to get an idea what chaos engineering is. You want to know if chaos engineering is only usable in cloud native environments. Dynatrace news. Controlled Chaos.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time. Frederick O’Brien.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

As a result, they may fail to consider the importance of full-stack observability, dashboards, AI-driven automation, application security, and other factors when designing their security operations strategy. Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities. Programming Languages.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time. How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

are technologically very different, Python and JMX extensions designed for Extension Framework 1.0 Comprehensive metrics support Extensions 2.0 support complete metric metadata configuration to ensure that monitoring data is context-rich and unified across the platform, regardless of which extension or agent sourced the metric.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Bringing together metrics, logs, traces, problem analytics, and root-cause information in dashboards and notebooks, Dynatrace offers an end-to-end unified operational view of cloud applications. Beyond SLAs, the emergence of machine learning technical debt poses an additional challenge for model observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. With this announcement, Dynatrace brings the value of its AI engine, the scale, security, and automation of Dynatrace OneAgent and the scale of our platform (which can handle 50,000 hosts) to open source technologies so that you get the best of both worlds.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Depending on the type of client, we need to determine the right strategy to sample consumer devices, and provide a system that can enable various client engineering teams to look for their signals. 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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Testsigma

OCTOBER 21, 2021

James Espie is a test specialist, a quality engineering proponent, and a continuous learner from Auckland, New Zealand. In this quick QnA, Espie makes the point that software quality begins with people, that more testing doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, and that context matters in metrics. Q3: Metrics question.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Metrics abstract you away from all details.

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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. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. Grail solves this scalability issue!

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Personalized Experience Refresh Netflix Recommendation engine continuously refreshes recommendations for every member. Event Management Engine The near-real-time event flow management framework at Netflix referred to as Manhattan can be configured to listen to specific events and forward events to different queues.

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Dotcom-Montior

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization, and as such, so do site reliability engineer tools. In larger organizations, a site reliability engineer may be more focused or siloed into specific responsibilities, therefore, their toolset may be more limited.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. As a result, SLOs can’t simply alert on metrics.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The only way to address these challenges is through observability data — logs, metrics, and traces. It should be open by design to accelerate innovation, enable powerful integration with other tools, and purposefully unify data and analytics. Your key business objectives will drive your strategy and metrics. Event severity.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Dynatrace DevOps activist Andreas Grabner and director of sales engineering Brian Wilson tackled this question in a recent episode of the PurePerformance podcast. Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. Cloud providers offer coarse carbon footprint tools that are designed for compliance reporting, not optimization.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. Microsoft designed the kernel and other aspects of the OS with an emphasis on security due to its focused role in executing container workloads. This design approach helps eliminate the need to patch and maintain essential packages.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Safe software deployment, canary testing, and play-delay Software engineering readers of this blog are likely familiar with unit, integration and load testing, as well as other testing practices that aim to prevent bugs from reaching production systems. We now build out a sequential testing procedure that meets these design requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Soon we had hundreds of engineers contributing directly to the API on a daily basis. DGS Framework & Developer Tools To make it easy for backend engineers to build a GraphQL DGS, the DevEx team built a “DGS Framework” on top of GraphQL Java and Spring Boot. Nevertheless, teams started to jump into the graph in droves.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate. The Performance Engineering team specializes in optimizing resource utilization at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Online Boutique has been launched into a Kubernetes cluster that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Network metrics for all containerized environments. The post Design and operate better applications in Kubernetes with extended insights into cross-container communications appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? Not all ecommerce designs are created equal.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

automating ingestion of logs, metrics, and traces and continuous dependency mapping with precise context across hybrid and multicloud environments. Log Metrics create metrics from log data or log metadata that allow users to add to a dashboard or create custom alerting from each metric created.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Jonah Kowall, CTO of Logz.io, also gave a talk on the topic of “Managing applications SLAs using Traces and Metrics”. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. – blog.

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Tasktop

APRIL 11, 2022

The pace of innovation is very much determined by the organization design and how we structure this matrix of roles and responsibilities,” says Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO and best-selling author of Project to Product , who co-hosts the webinar. So how do you design them correctly? Watch the full webinar. Matrixes are here to stay.

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