The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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DZone

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of cloud computing and event-driven applications, efficiency and flexibility are absolute necessities. A smooth flow of messages in an event-driven application is the key to its performance and efficiency. A critical component of such an application is message distribution.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Bring logic to data with easy-to-build apps As a unified observability and security platform, Dynatrace is designed to be open and customizable from the ground up. With hundreds of teams, distributed systems, and terabytes of log data, this is a daunting task. Hyperscaler security events are ingested into Grail as BizEvents.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Percona

JUNE 7, 2023

PostgreSQL provides a powerful mechanism for implementing event-driven actions using triggers. Triggers on Data Definition Language (DDL) events are a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that allows you to perform additional actions in response to changes to the database schema.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

This year, Google’s event will take place from April 9 to 11 in Las Vegas. Visit Dynatrace booth #1141 during the event to explore how its real-time insights and optimization capabilities ensure seamless scalability and performance. Learn to boost system reliability through proactive issue detection.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of website design, the Elementor WordPress website builder has emerged as a transformative force. We will explore its capabilities and highlight why it has become a preferred choice for web designers. Elementor is a robust, user-friendly website builder designed for WordPress.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. traditional software) to a Software 2.0 In Software 1.0

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we share how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. This is where xMatters Flow Designer comes into play, by automating remediation steps at the touch of a button. Dynatrace news. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Late-arriving data is essentially delayed data due to system retries, network delays, batch processing schedules, system outages, delayed upstream workflows, or reconciliation in source systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. This decoupling is facilitated through a central component known as the message broker or event bus, which manages the delivery of messages.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Some tools demand the installation of agents on those systems and provide complex, disconnected views.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

Executing PITR requires restoring from the full backup and then applying binary log events in sequence up to the desired point in time, with advanced techniques and third-party tools available to optimize large dataset handling and automate the recovery process. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. What is Azure Linux?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. The Dynatrace integration leverages native features and events that pass through the pipeline. However, this is highly unlikely.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. As the system evolves to solve more and more use cases, we have expanded its scope to handle not only the CDC use cases but also more general data movement and processing use cases such that: Events can be sourced from more generic applications (not only databases).

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. Used judiciously, EventStorming gives us the ability to uncover enough information about our domain and our business that we can use it to design our microservices, bounded contexts, and even our teams.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. Data is all-important—vital for the continued success of our businesses—but has also been seen as a massive constraint in how we design and evolve our systems. But I kept hitting up against some fundamental issues.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. What was problematic about this design?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Compute services.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment. Additionally, organizations need to consider AI observability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Suppose a single Grail environment is central storage for pre-production and production systems.

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