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. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

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 189

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 189

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. Log Events. What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS 217

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 217

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

Traffic 206

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces. In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity.

Cloud 221

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 221

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Not only that, teams struggle to correlate events and alerts from a wide range of security tools, need to put them into context, and infer their risk for the business. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events.

Analytics 195

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 195

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. As a result, logging tools record large event volumes in real time. What else did the initial event affect?

Systems 185

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 185

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Analytics 184

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 184

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Kubernetes can encounter problems while attempting to change an application’s state back to the intended state declared in Git—deployment mistakes, unpredictable traffic patterns, and resource miscalculations can make such state changes impossible. Davis AI targets Kubernetes orchestration: in real-time.

Storage 299

Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 299

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

The organization needed to ensure the correlation of all events in a complete end-to-end trace. Solving custom API observability with OpenTelemetry Because the bank group needed complete coverage for all API traffic, it wanted to standardize tracing on all API calls. However, they had numerous custom applications with separate APIs.

Open Source 193

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 193

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

You can even integrate Dynatrace into your CI/CD pipeline using the Events API. This allows you to create a deployment event that contains all important details each time a new version is released. Davis then watches for any new problems that might be related and associates them with the deployment event.

Traffic 138

Traffic Performance Database Metrics 138

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

Java 190

Java Traffic Education Storage 190

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By unifying all relevant events in Grail, teams could identify suspicious activity, then have the platform automatically trigger the steps to analyze those activities. The Dynatrace team gathered cloud billing data, infrastructure data, networking data, and analyzed that data in Dynatrace Notebooks.

Innovation 197

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 197

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 166

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 166

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 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Service-level objectives help teams define an acceptable level of downtime for a service or a particular issue. SLOs aid decision making.

Software 263

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 263

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. These kinds of problems are unacceptable.

Traffic 191

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 191

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

The customers’ marketing team had launched a campaign for a special sales event at the end of May. From the below screenshot you can see that the traffic picked up not only slightly but quadrupled! Even days after the event they couldn’t figure out why the push was not successful. Why were the results not as expected?

Traffic 160

Traffic Analytics DevOps Infrastructure 160

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

They need event-driven automation that not only responds to events and triggers but also analyzes and interprets the context to deliver precise and proactive actions. These initial automation endeavors paved the way for greater advancements, leading to the next evolution of event-driven automation.

DevOps 220

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 220

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

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Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform. Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The challenge for clients is that each instance of the application runs on a Netflix member’s device and signals are derived from a firehose of events being sent by devices across the globe. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. An event handler can be configured on these queues to trigger workflows or tasks to perform specific actions upon the terminal state of the workflow.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Every time a placement event is triggered, titus-isolate queries a remote optimization service (running as a Titus service, hence also isolating itself… turtles all the way down ) which solves the container-to-threads placement problem. We also want to leverage kernel PMC events to more directly optimize for minimal cache noise.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yet many customers struggle with the vast amount of data that Prometheus provides, both in terms of scaling the Prometheus infrastructure as well as producing and maintaining its value. Dynatrace not only monitors everything from hosts to clouds, it’s designed around the pillars of observability: traces, metrics, events, and logs.

Open Source 254

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 254

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users. This approach offers the advantage of promptly identifying and addressing unavailability or performance degradation events before they impact any end-users.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. Their goal has been to ensure that their IT infrastructure sits as closely to their customers and users as possible.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

We are increasingly surrounded by intelligent IoT devices, which have become an essential part of our lives and an integral component of business and industrial infrastructures. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Are you looking to monitor your infrastructure using one of our ready-made extensions, or would you like to draw on our experience and create your own synthetic monitors? Platform extensions.

Infrastructure 153

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 153

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. How much does all of this cost? A reasonable floor comes from Mozilla's annual reports. The Best Kind Of Correct #.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master. Thus, we see that the MySQL HA framework handles split-brain scenarios effectively, ensuring both data consistency and availability in the event the network connectivity breaks between master and slave nodes.

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Availability Network Azure AWS 149