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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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users. Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today. I think it’s a different team with different expertise from the more infrastructure oriented Container Platform Team that provides a place for applications to run. The second is that some companies with tools to sell are marketing the term.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Organizations are doing their best to monitor what they can, often using disparate tools for logs, infrastructure, and digital experience. The webinar begins with an overview of Kubernetes, emphasizing its popularity and the technical simplicity that underscores the value of infrastructure as code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

Best Practices 230

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules.

Engineering 198

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 198

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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

With the release of Dynatrace version 1.249, the Davis® AI Causation Engine provides broader support to subsequent Kubernetes issues and their impact on business continuity like: Automated Kubernetes root cause analysis. Such context is easy to understand using the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Incidents are harder to solve.

Storage 308

Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 308

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? What is Kubernetes?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 224

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L. Krasula, A.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. Based on monitored traffic, Dynatrace OneAgent is capable of automatic recognition of topological relations.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 245

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The success of an organization often depends on the quality of the on-premises or physical IT infrastructure, among other things. Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Monitor Cisco and any other devices.

Network 219

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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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.

Best Practices 198

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 198

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 226

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Imagine having an AI engine that comprehends the complete context of the transaction and intelligently determines whether to send a discount code—and which one to send. Full contextual awareness helps the AI engine make informed decisions. Has the user purchased this product before? But it doesn’t stop there.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. In cloud computing environments, infrastructure and services are maintained by the cloud vendor, allowing you to focus on how best to serve your customers. However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supporting developers through those checklists for edge cases, and then validating that each team’s choices resulted in an architecture with all the desired security properties, was similarly not scalable for our security engineers. Netflix engineers talk a lot about the concept of a “ Paved Road ”.

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps monitoring is an observability practice that creates a real-time view of the status of applications, services, and infrastructure in pre-production and production environments. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Now, Dynatrace has the ability to turn numerical values from logs into metrics, which unlocks AI-powered answers, context, and automation for your apps and infrastructure, at scale. Whatever your use case, when log data reflects changes in your infrastructure or business metrics, you need to extract the metrics and monitor them.

Metrics 223

Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 223

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

For today’s highly dynamic and exceedingly complex production environments, performance problems that are evident at the service level (for example, slow response times or failed requests) are often the result of underlying (cloud) infrastructure issues. Enrich OpenTelemetry instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

Traffic 173

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 173

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

OneAgent technology simplifies deployment across large enterprises and relieves engineers of the burden of instrumenting their applications by hand. One parameter toggles for different capabilities like Kubernetes API monitoring or OneAgent traffic routing. Dynatrace news. One key Dynatrace advantage is ease of activation.

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Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 232

High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

Architecture 244

Architecture Cloud Traffic Infrastructure 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. With tools like ApplicationVantage, network engineers discovered application inefficiencies and advised on corrective actions. Technology developments come in waves.

Network 167

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

With most employees now working from home, and the demand on e-commerce platforms hits an all-time high, applications and infrastructure are under intense pressure with new usage patterns that have never been planned for or tested against. IT teams are on the frontlines of these efforts.

Traffic 206

Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 206

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures. He also highlighted the benefits of Davis , the AI-engine at the heart of Dynatrace. “We The engineer can get a preview on how to fix the issue, how to identify it. We really like how Davis works.

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Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 244

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 220

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 220

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was created as a single monolithic system, where developers from various media teams in ET and our platform partner team Content Infrastructure and Solutions (CIS)¹ worked on the same codebase, building a single system that handled all media assets. Footnotes Formerly known as Media Cloud Engineering/MCE team.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. This is achieved by active-active deployment for optimum hardware utilization, thus eliminating the need for separate standby disaster recovery (passive) hosts and the associated infrastructure to store and transfer backup data.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. Use reduction at scale requires a cultural shift, and engineers must consider the cost as they think of memory or bandwidth as another deployment KPI. You have to ensure that the operation is not impacted when you’re making decisions based on the metrics.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle is one of the many applications that is at the exciting intersection of connecting the world of content productions to Netflix Studio Engineering. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 171