The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. What is a data lakehouse?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions. What is chaos engineering? Chaos engineers ask why. As chaos engineers grow confident in their testing, they change more variables and broaden the scope of the disaster.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Kubernetes, the de-facto orchestration platform, offers scalability and agility. However, managing its health and performance efficiently necessitates a robust monitoring solution. Prometheus Prometheus excels at providing actionable insights into the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE focuses on automation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

To solve this problem , Dynatrace offers a fully automated approach to infrastructure and application observability including Kubernetes control plane, deployments, pods, nodes, and a wide array of cloud-native technologies. None of this complexity is exposed to application and infrastructure teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

– Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider. – Clearly a hot topic – and the most interesting point here would be how it is changing performance engineering. Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering. – Optimizing IT infrastructure – with specific use cases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For a closer look at the numbers from the Dynatrace, Snyk, and AWS joint research, plus more statistics on how automation increases efficiencies and reduces security risks, see the infographic report, Continuous delivery needs continuous security. 34% of CIOs say they sacrifice code security to deliver innovation quicker.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An open-source distributed SQL query engine, Trino is widely used for data analytics on distributed data storage. Optimizing Trino to make it faster can help organizations achieve quicker insights and better user experiences, as well as cut costs and improve infrastructure efficiency and scalability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE focuses on automation. SRE drives a “shift left” mindset.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. Managing this change is difficult.

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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. Because of its adaptability, Prometheus has become an essential tool for observability engineering. Jolly good!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

As a result, organizations are implementing security analytics to manage risk and improve DevSecOps efficiency. Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. They enable IT teams to identify and address the precise cause of application and infrastructure issues.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. This awareness is important when the goal is to drive cost-conscious engineering.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The underlying foundation of a workload within this environment is its ability to utilize computing resources and produce outputs based on given inputs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a rather simple move as it doesn’t directly impact your infrastructure, just your contract with your electricity provider. Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. A PUE of 1.0

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. reliability situations, where continuity of service is essential, with redundant elements continuously in-service, such as with airplane engines. This ensures reliability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

To unlock these innovations we are making a strategic choice that our focus should be geared towards developing the surrounding infrastructure so that scientists’ work can be easily absorbed into the wider Netflix Experimentation Platform. B) Efficient use of memory We should optimize for sparse linear algebra.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Dynatrace is a launch partner in support of AWS Lambda Response Streaming , a new capability enabling customers to improve the efficiency and performance of their Lambda functions. Streaming raises the default 6 MB hard limit to a 20 MB soft limit, adding greater scalability and flexibility to their applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy. Establish data governance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Membership Engineering at Netflix is responsible for the plan and pricing configurations for every market worldwide. Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Mesos supports several container orchestration engines and can launch Docker containers independently of the Docker daemon.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But to be scalable, they also need low-code/no-code solutions that don’t require a lot of spin-up or engineering expertise. And operations teams need to forecast cloud infrastructure and compute resource requirements, then automatically provision resources to optimize digital customer experiences.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements. In order to train the model on internal training data (video clips with aligned text descriptions), we implemented a scalable version on Ray Train and switched to a more performant video decoding library.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure. What is BPF?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Today, DevOps orchestration is necessary to gain a comprehensive view and means of control over infrastructure, services, and software development practices. In a similar way that developers automate a single task to improve consistency, efficiency, and speed, orchestration tools can coordinate the automation of tasks across platforms.

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