The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

Infrastructure 233

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Like any IT or business project, you’ll need to track critical key metrics. Here are nine key DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs that will help you be successful.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. Average query response time. What’s next.

Traffic 264

Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 264

DZone

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Observability Vs. Monitoring: Why A Developer Needs Both. Given the complexity of distributing the evolving cloud-based services and infrastructures across a diverse range of users, IT service providers consistently observe and monitor metrics, datasets, and logs.

Monitoring 226

Monitoring Development Infrastructure Cloud 226

Dynatrace

MARCH 30, 2023

In this episode, Willie addresses the issue of discoverability and the impact of the Binding Operative Directive (BOD) released by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on the federal community. Listen in to learn about the innovative steps that the USPTO has taken to develop new ways of working.

Social Media 170

Social Media Metrics Government Media 170

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time.

Open Source 219

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 219

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 180

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 also includes various built-in software components for database management, security, and application development. What is IBM i? Gaining knowledge about IBM i performance can be a challenging and pricey task.

Monitoring 235

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Analytics 235

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2024

High monitoring costs and limited visibility drive the need for innovation Ally Financial uses AI-powered observability for monitoring and automating its technology stack, from its cloud and on-premises infrastructure to its applications and customer digital experiences. I’m thrilled to see what’s in store for Ally Financial.”

Technology 216

Technology Technology Analytics Innovation 216

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior. The deep visibility and insights that observability provides allow teams to take proactive measures early in the software development life cycle (SDLC).

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DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 190

DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For more: Read the Report Agile development practices must be supported by an agile monitoring framework. Overlooking the nuances of the system state — spanning infrastructure, application performance, and user interaction — is a risk businesses can't afford.

Monitoring 268

Monitoring Performance Infrastructure Metrics 268

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

With Dynatrace Davis® , Vertex AI, and Gemini for Google Cloud, this strategic partnership aims to meet developers’ needs, facilitating rapid application development, expediting time to value, and eliminating friction across the software development and delivery continuum. Learn more.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix is critical infrastructure For businesses operating in industries with strict regulations, such as healthcare, banking, or government, Citrix virtual apps and virtual desktops are essential for simplified infrastructure management, secure application delivery, and compliance requirements.

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 220

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Managing this change is difficult.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 252

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With growing multicloud complexity and the need for organization-wide scalability, self-service and automation capabilities have become increasingly essential for developer productivity. Many consider it an effective solution for improving efficiency and overall satisfaction for developers across a variety of organizations and industries.

Engineering 212

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 212

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Development and demand for AI tools come with a growing concern about their environmental cost.

Cache 204

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Speed Software Software Latency 207

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dynatrace enables our customers to monitor and optimize their cloud infrastructure and applications through the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. Today’s story is about how the Keptn development team is using Dynatrace during development and load-testing. Conclusion: Dynatrace is always on for us developers.

Cloud 228

Cloud Development Open Source Monitoring 228

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Teams require innovative approaches to manage vast amounts of data and complex infrastructure as well as the need for real-time decisions. As a result, organizations are turning to AI to automate tasks—from code development to incident response—to reduce manual effort and human error, and to boost workforce efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence 183

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Strategy Open Source 183

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

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.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. Once teams solidify infrastructure and application performance, security is the subsequent priority.

Analytics 201

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 201

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. Service-level objectives (SLOs). availability.

Best Practices 223

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 223

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. Changes in application code or configurations can impact performance metrics, affecting user experience and application functionality.

Open Source 268

Open Source Hardware DevOps Infrastructure 268

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. Dynatrace is proud to be an AWS launch partner in support of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). How does Dynatrace help?

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AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 281

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. OpenShift is developed by Red Hat and can run in a variety of environments — both cloud and on premises.

Open Source 206

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Not to mention, hosting parts of their cloud infrastructure locally isn’t something customers expect from their cloud solution. In October 2022, Dynatrace and Microsoft extended their deep integration to include metrics and topology from Azure Monitor.

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Azure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

are automatically distributed to a group of ActiveGates, balancing the load automatically and switching workloads in case of infrastructure failure, to assure continued monitoring execution. Comprehensive metrics support Extensions 2.0 Read on to learn how to migrate your Extensions 1.0. Scalability and failover Extensions 2.0

Technology 246

Technology Technology Scalability Availability 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Develop error budgets to help teams measure success and make data-driven decisions.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 263

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Based on IDC’s research, 83% of enterprises are rationalizing, or optimizing, their technology infrastructure. According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. What is application modernization?

Strategy 227

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 227

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

With automatic and intelligent observability of all their infrastructure, apps, services, and workloads and their dependencies, Dynatrace pinpoints exactly where something is going wrong. If you’re going to have an SLO, you should have a story in mind of why you’re setting up all these alerts and collecting all these metrics.

Technology 210

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications. What is Lambda?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. AWS: A service for everything.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This view seamlessly correlates crucial events across all affected components, eliminating the manual effort of sifting through various monitoring tools for infrastructure, process, or service metrics. By using JavaScript and DQL, these dashboards can help generate reports on the current DORA metrics. What’s next?

DevOps 203

DevOps Metrics Engineering Analytics 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

By analyzing metric anomalies between hosts and load balancers, Davis AI can quickly resolve problems, thus expediting the process. Integration with SNMP Traps An effective way to receive alerts is through SNMP trap integration, which allows F5 devices to send notifications instead of setting thresholds on Dynatrace metrics.

Traffic 194

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 194

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

Software development. Software developers can use causal analysis to identify the root causes of bugs or application performance issues and to predict potential system failures or performance degradations. Data lakehouses can store and query structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data on low-cost infrastructure.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 207

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Developed first at SoundCloud, the project became part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and has steadily become the industry standard for both containerized infrastructure and classic implementation scenarios , especially within Kubernetes clusters. Dynatrace support for AMP. Prometheus declarative extensions.

Technology 211

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 211