The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! In other words, false positives are bad but false negatives are the absolute worst!

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Cold storage and rehydration.

Analytics 211

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. It removes much of the guesswork of untangling complex system issues and establishes with certainty why a problem occurred. Fragmented and siloed data storage can create inconsistencies and redundancies. Timeliness.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Understanding complex systems Causal AI holds great importance for achieving full-stack observability in complex systems. Software development.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Cold storage and rehydration.

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Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 178

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. Problem Statement.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Moreover, the system lacks flexibility, imposing strict schemas that administrators and developers must adhere to avoid additional costs. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. With Dynatrace, you only pay for what you use.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Linux System Mining with Python ( Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community). Java EE 7 is Final.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. DBaaS offers key benefits that include cost savings, scalability, optimized database capabilities, simpler database management, rapid development, and reduced risk.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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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. Its inherent complexity makes observability difficult — especially when used across highly distributed systems.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

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DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The load testing for the database needs to be conducted usually so that the impact on the system can be monitored in different scenarios, such as query language rule optimization, storage engine parameter adjustment, etc. The operating system in this article is the x86 CentOS 7.8. Why Load Testing Matters in Nebula Graph?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. Proactive monitoring.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 194

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

That’s because of the heterogeneity of the data their environments generate and the limitations of the systems they rely on to analyze this information. DevOps maturity is a model that measures the completeness and effectiveness of an organization’s processes for software development, delivery, operations, and monitoring.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Maximizing a strong foundation of IT infrastructure performance and security means effectively utilizing all the data that these systems produce to drive risk management processes and decision-making. Automated risk management workflows, processes, and decisions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Observability fault lines The monitoring of complex and dynamic IT systems includes real-time analysis of baselines, trends, and anomalies. Similarly, many performance analytics goals are served by capturing method calls and arguments to give developers the information they need to diagnose and correct anomalies.

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Analytics Metrics DevOps Storage 197

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. We’ll discuss how the responsibilities of ITOps teams changed with the rise of cloud technologies and agile development methodologies. So, what is ITOps?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 175

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Can you expand?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. What is your favorite project?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., That’s hard to do in today’s blockchain systems for two reasons: Provenance can only be determined by querying and replaying all on-chain transactions, which is inefficient and an offline activity. VLDB’19. Or on nothing at all.

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Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A common practice among DBAs and developers is to copy table data and.frm files from the data dictionary. MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. The exact handling can vary depending on the storage engine. In MySQL 8.0,

Storage 96

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 96

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 news. What is Prometheus and how does it work?

Technology 207

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 207

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

To address these challenges, we developed Delta. Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2]. By their nature, they can only rely on the lowest common denominator of participating systems.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

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