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 which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Scalability testing is an approach to non-functional software testing that checks how well applications and infrastructure perform under increased or decreased workload conditions. The organization can optimize infrastructure costs and create the best user experience by determining server-side robustness and client-side degradation.

Best Practices 141

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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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. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

Infrastructure complexity is costing enterprises money. AIOps offers an alternative to traditional infrastructure monitoring and management with end-to-end visibility and observability into IT stacks. As 69% of CIOs surveyed said, it’s time for a “radically different approach” to infrastructure monitoring.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality. 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.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. That’s because every company is now a software company. As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. That’s exactly what a software intelligence platform does.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Why organizations are turning to software development to deliver business value. Digital immunity has emerged as a strategic priority for organizations striving to create secure software development that delivers business value. Software development success no longer means just meeting project deadlines. Autonomous testing.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System , the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application. Context-rich tickets can be created in systems like Jira or ServiceNow for traceability and compliance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. How log management systems optimize performance and security.

Systems 180

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 180

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. This is needed to collect messages across your systems because many different types of devices and applications can produce logs in the syslog format. Take a look at this example for configuration.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices.

Infrastructure 190

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High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

One of the primary drivers behind digital transformation initiatives is the desire to streamline application development and delivery to bring higher quality, more secure software to market faster. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability. Otherwise, contact our Services team.

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

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Recently, some organizations fell victim to a software supply chain attack, which led to loss of confidential data. This article explains what a software supply chain attack is, and how Dynatrace protects its customers against such attacks by applying: Risk management and business continuity planning. It all starts with the code.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Understanding complex systems Causal AI holds great importance for achieving full-stack observability in complex systems. Software development. Causal AI use cases can complement other types of AI.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

With the ability to generate new content—such as images, text, audio, and other data—based on patterns and examples taken from existing data, organizations are rushing to capitalize on the AI model. As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks.

Artificial Intelligence 222

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 222

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? Below is an example of the distribution log detail.

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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

Infrastructure 219

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This already indicates that a few weeks if not months easily pass until one has honed the system far enough to completely trust it with production monitoring of business-critical applications. Data sources typically include common infrastructure monitoring tools and second-generation APM solutions as well as other solutions.

Software 263

Software Software Artificial Intelligence Metrics 263

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

GPU-based machine learning system crashes, and you don’t know why? Example 1: Gain visibility into your NVIDIA GPUs. One of our software engineers, Tomasz Gajger, has been involved in a research project related to GPU performance analysis. Example 2: Keep ahead of SSL certificate expiration dates. What’s next.

Infrastructure 134

Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring Software Engineering 134

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

If you’re evaluating container orchestration software to manage containerized applications at scale, you may be wondering about the differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.”

Open Source 199

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Let’s start with a simple introductory comparison: With proprietary (closed source) database software, the public does not have access to the source code; only the company that owns it and those given access can modify it. Those most involved with open source software know the reality about security. The list goes on and on.

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Open Source Database Software Software 112

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

For cities, counties, and states that use geographic information system (GIS) apps such as ArcGIS to drive mission critical services, application resilience is essential. The challenge is that state and local governments operate in highly complex systems — legacy data centers or hybrid environments — crossing multiple clouds.

Government 211

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is particularly important for large enterprises, where implementing least privilege access to all software used within the organization is likely required. To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features.

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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. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

Government 196

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Step 1 – Let Dynatrace analyze your infrastructure health in real-time. The Dynatrace all-in-one software intelligence platform gives your team real-time visibility into your underlying infrastructure —be it on bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or a hybrid solution. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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Systems Latency DevOps Azure 176

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” It supports the industry’s most widely used software applications?—?via

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Today’s organizations are constantly enhancing their systems and services as new opportunities arise, inspiring new forms of collaboration while relying on open ecosystems and open source software. Open source software is an example of the value created in an open ecosystem. What is an open ecosystem?

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