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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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PMM Access Control: A Comprehensive Guide With Use Cases and Examples

Percona

Your company operates a massive distributed architecture that spans multiple data centers and cloud providers, and your databases are a crucial part of this infrastructure. For example, the QA team would only have access to data from the QA environment rather than having access to the production environment. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices

Dynatrace

In a Dynatrace Perform 2024 session, Kristof Renders, director of innovation services, discussed how a stronger FinOps strategy coupled with observability can make a significant difference in helping teams to keep spiraling infrastructure costs under control and manage cloud spending. Suboptimal architecture design.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

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Dynatrace adds monitoring support for Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service deployments using Azure Linux container host

Dynatrace

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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