The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New: identify hotspots with the honeycomb visualization Honeycombs are great for visualizing health in complex and distributed systems, enabling you to visualize countless entities effectively and at scale. Go to our documentation to learn more about implementing honeycomb visualizations on your dashboards or notebooks.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Dynatrace is among the first set of partners to offer support for AWS Distributor , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, that allows you to select from available popular third party agents to install and manage. What is AWS Systems Manager Distributor? How to configure AWS distributor to install OneAgent.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A Dynatrace API token with the following permissions: Ingest OpenTelemetry traces ( openTelemetryTrace.ingest ) Ingest metrics ( metrics.ingest ) Ingest logs ( logs.ingest ) To set up the token, see Dynatrace API – Tokens and authentication in Dynatrace documentation. You can even walk through the same example above.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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DZone

MAY 20, 2025

Keywords : Chaos Engineering, System Resilience, Failure Injection, Performance Metrics, Fault Tolerance Abstract Chaos Engineering is an essential practice for testing system resilience by intentionally injecting failures and analyzing the systems response.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2025

SAP systems are used by many of the worlds largest enterprises, powering everything from finance to supply chain operations. However, monitoring SAP systems can be extremely challenging. PowerConnect-instrumented SAP systems feed observability signals straight into the Dynatrace platform.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In a single view, developers get an instant overview of application performance, system health, logs, problems, deployment status, user interactions, and much more. Using the trace ID, we can inspect the captured trace directly in the Dynatrace Tracing app, giving us a full view of the end-to-end transaction as it flows through our systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It allows users to choose between different counting modes, such as Best-Effort or Eventually Consistent , while considering the documented trade-offs of each option. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shifting to customer-centric IT For observability data to be meaningful, it must connect the performance of IT systems to customer experience throughout their journey, across both digital and physical touchpoints. That result can be automatically documented and passed to the development team, providing them with full context of the problem.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In such a fragmented landscape, having clear, real-time insights into granular data for every system is crucial. Then, document the specifics of your desired end state. If it passes impact assessments and has a compelling ROI, then stakeholders are more likely to support it. What does your current estate consist of?

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Analytics Engineers deliver these insights by establishing deep business and product partnerships; translating business challenges into solutions that unblock critical decisions; and designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end analytical systems.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

For enterprises managing complex systems and vast datasets using traditional log management tools, finding specific log entries quickly and efficiently can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. For a deeper dive into these features, visit Dynatrace Documentation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2025

This can include internal services within an organizations infrastructure or external systems. Java remains one of the most popular programming languages globally, and it is used by major companies worldwide for everything from web and Android apps to server-side programming and large-scale enterprise systems. group of companies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 9, 2025

Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system comprises of diverse sub-systems designed to monitor, measure, and optimize ad campaigns. The tracking information is packed into a structured protobuf data model.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. For more information about identifying and optimizing resources, go to the Optimize workload resource usage with Kubernetes app and Notebooks use case in Dynatrace Documentation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Integration with existing systems and processes : Integration with existing IT infrastructure, observability solutions, and workflows often requires significant investment and customization. We are updating product documentation to include underlying static assumptions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Applications must migrate to the new mechanism, as using the deprecated file upload mechanism leaves systems vulnerable. Looking at the frameworks documentation, we’re unable to find any reference to such a keyword. While Struts version 6.4.0 Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2025

Heres more about the VMware security advisory and how you can quickly find affected systems using Dynatrace so you canautomate remediation efforts. With a TOCTOU vulnerability, an attacker can manipulate a system between the time a resource’s state is checked and when it’s used, also known as a race condition.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

However, the challenge often lies in the fragmentation of vulnerability data across different systems and tools. As part of this integration, we provide ready-made documents that can serve as a starting point for your data analysis and automation use cases. Ready to explore the Dynatrace Harbor integration for yourself?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Compliance: Document all inputs and outputs, maintaining full data lineage from prompt to response to build a clear audit trail and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Youve found the why without manually spelunking logs in disparate systems. Model type (which Amazon foundation model or third-party model is used?)

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

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Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2025

However, the challenge often lies in the fragmentation of vulnerability data across different systems and tools. As part of the integration, we provide a couple of ready-made documents to serve as a starting point for your data analysis and automation use cases. Ready to explore the Dynatrace Snyk integration for yourself?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

Journald provides unified structured logging for systems, services, and applications, eliminating the need for custom parsing for severity or details. System health, performance troubleshooting, and debugging situations no longer require manual correlation of logs across multiple disconnected tools or servers.

Analytics 146

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

For more information, you can always check our documentation. It also provides insights into system performance and allows for proactive management. Monitoring CPU usage helps ensure optimal performance, enabling you to manage your resources and ensure smooth system operations proactively.

Metrics 243

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O'Reilly

MAY 8, 2025

Throughout computing history, we’ve continuously built better translation layers between human thought and machine executionfrom physical wiring to assembly language to high-level languages, to the World Wide Web, which embedded calls to back end systems into a front end made up of human readable documents. Of course not.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Real-world context: Determine if vulnerabilities are linked to internet-facing systems or databases to help you prioritize the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk. To filter findings efficiently, use numerical thresholds like DSS (Dynatrace Security Score) or CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System).

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DZone

JUNE 24, 2024

Traditional enterprise storage or HPC-focused parallel file systems are costly and challenging to manage for AI-scale deployments. High-performance storage systems can significantly reduce AI model training time. Delays in data access can also impact AI model accuracy, highlighting the critical role of storage performance.

Systems 130

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s a simple rough sketch of RAG: Start with a collection of documents about a domain. Split each document into chunks. The various flavors of RAG borrow from recommender systems practices, such as the use of vector databases and embeddings. Chunk your documents from unstructured data sources, as usual in GraphRAG.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Scaling with Flexible Identity Federation Identity federation plays a critical role in modern IT infrastructure, serving as a foundational component that enables seamless, secure access to various systems and applications across different domains and platforms. See Dynatrace Documentation for full details.

Strategy 290

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A simple and automated approach can help you stay on top of things and ensure your systems are available and secure. Finally, you can find pre-defined workflows to automate manual work by connecting seamlessly with external systems through our extensive range of connectors.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

System Backup now requires the backup of privacy-related system documentation. 5 control family that more comprehensively addresses the risks associated with acquiring, developing, and maintaining information systems and components associated with third-party and vendor services, products, and supply chains. FedRAMP Rev.5

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Our detailed analysis not only illuminates the specifics of CVE-2024-53677 but also offers practical measures to secure your software systems against similar threats. Organizations can better protect their systems and data from exploitation by comprehensively addressing each phase.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2021

Code can be considered good quality if it is clear, simple, well tested, bug-free, refactored, documented, and performant. Keeping good code quality is also crucial for developing safety-critical systems. The quality can be subjective, so different teams may use different definitions based on the context.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To support using these building blocks, we provide you with our Dynatrace Developer documentation , which acts as a one-stop shop for all information about creating a Dynatrace custom app. Perhaps the documentation does not solve your problem, you have an error, or you can’t find the answer.

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