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.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. Next you can start using logs in your troubleshooting and analysis tasks.

Operating System 211

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 211

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.

Cloud 257

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 257

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior. For example, an observability solution can track and analyze usage data to help engineers understand how and when to scale resources based on system demand.

DevOps 196

DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 196

High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. We didn't have to build any of that heavy infrastructure. An even more stark example is Facebook. Today we have 600,000-plus people, millions and millions of customers, a very large company. How did that happen in such a short period of time?

Internet 146

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 146

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. What is Multi-Cloud? The reason lies in the unique advantages that come from utilizing a hybrid cloud.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For example, suppose a company has standardized on a suite of disparate tools to monitor its infrastructure and apps. Additionally, these heterogeneous point solutions limit companies’ ability to move along in their maturity journey. Choosing the right observability solution is critical to success in this model.

Cloud 241

Cloud Analytics Monitoring Scalability 241

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. Take, for example, a fictitious enterprise customer, ACME Inc.,

Strategy 262

Strategy Scalability Infrastructure Systems 262

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

GKE Autopilot empowers organizations to invest in creating elegant digital experiences for their customers in lieu of expensive infrastructure management. Dynatrace’s collaboration with Google addresses these needs by providing simple, scalable, and innovative data acquisition for comprehensive analysis and troubleshooting.

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Google Cloud Innovation Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

Development 256

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

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. For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. Unnecessary data transfer.

Best Practices 238

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 238

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Easy scalability. Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. million in 2020. Process portability. CaaS vs. PaaS.

Serverless 221

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, machine learning can identify correlations in data and generate predictions, while causal AI determines which ones are the true drivers. For example, causal AI can help public health officials better understand the effects of environmental factors, healthcare policies, and social factors on health outcomes. Government.

Artificial Intelligence 213

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 213

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

These methods improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC), but what if infrastructure deployment and management could also benefit? Development teams use GitOps to specify their infrastructure requirements in code. Known as infrastructure as code (IaC), it can build out infrastructure automatically to scale.

DevOps 230

DevOps Infrastructure Speed Cloud 230

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. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens.

Government 209

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 209

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Kubernetes workload management is easier with a centralized observability platform When deploying applications with Kubernetes, the configuration is flexible and declarative, allowing for scalability. In this example, the root cause can easily be determined by further analyzing the Kubernetes events and logs for the cartservice workload.

Serverless 227

Serverless Analytics AWS Azure 227

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions.

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Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 239

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

An example of what this protocol might look like for a browser request to retrieve the plan selection page shown above might look as follows: GET /plans { “flow”: “browser”, “mode”: “planSelection” } As you can see, there are 2 critical pieces of information in this request: Flow? The database contains the plans, prices and offers.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

To do so we have successfully established AI-based White box load and resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace, helping identify and resolve major performance and scalability problems in recent projects before deploying to production. Each step is automated from provisioning infrastructure to problem analysis.

Testing 223

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 223

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Advanced observability can eliminate blind spots surrounding application performance, health, and behavior for these critical applications and the infrastructure that supports them. For example, Real User Monitoring (RUM) can provide an accurate picture of employee or citizen experience with an app.

Government 224

Government Infrastructure Monitoring Database 224

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. Amber is a suite of multiple infrastructure components that offers triggering capabilities to initiate the computation of algorithms with recursive dependency resolution.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. Popular examples include AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , but new providers are constantly emerging as this model becomes more mainstream. Serverless benefits include the following: Dynamic scalability.

Serverless 169

Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 169

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Red Hat OpenShift monitoring with Dynatrace stands out due to the following key aspects: Infrastructure health monitoring and optimization: Assess the status of your infrastructure at a glance, understand resource consumption, optimize resource allocation for cost-efficiency, and track software versions running within the Kubernetes environment.

Architecture 174

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 174

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

It was the first use of a todo list as an example. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Use Multi-AZ deployments for High Availability and Read Replica for read scalability.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Not so many this week.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Cloud computing skyrocketed onto the market 20+ years ago and has been widely adopted for the scalability and accelerated innovation it brings organization. As on-prem data centers become obsolete, and organizations look to modernize, Azure has the flexibility and scalability to adapt to the business needs of your organic IT landscape.

Azure 252

Azure Serverless Innovation Cloud 252

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 195

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 195

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.

Analytics 193

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 193

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness.

Speed 212

Speed Software Software Latency 212

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They offer unmatched flexibility and scalability to meet the fluctuating demands of the market. With a single click, the dashboard shows an analysis of logs and metrics for a selected resource in its appropriate context, making it easier to understand the complexities inherent in cloud infrastructure.

Cloud 210

Cloud Strategy Metrics Government 210

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While engaging the automatic instrumentation of the Dynatrace OneAgent makes log ingestion automatic and scalable , our customers have set up multiple other log ingestion methods. Yet observability into syslog data on Dynatrace would help you monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure. Log ingestion strategy no. What is Fluentd?

Strategy 185

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 185

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. A few examples: Reduce roundtrips between services (for example, the N+1 query pattern). Reduce the volume of data volumes requested from databases (for example, request all, filter in memory).

Cloud 214

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 214

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. For example, in Reloaded the video quality calculation was implemented inside the video encoder module. As an example, in Reloaded, the video encoding module bundles 5 steps: 1. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Open source software is an example of the value created in an open ecosystem. This led to scalability issues, as teams were stuck managing dozens of custom integrations where a small issue could lead to a major problem. A closed ecosystem, on the other hand, is controlled by one entity and follows rigid protocols for interaction.

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