Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Platform engineering creates and manages a shared infrastructure and set of tools, such as internal developer platforms (IDPs) , to enable software developers to build, deploy, and operate applications more efficiently. This process is vital to an IDP’s effectiveness.

Engineering 237

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Shown below are rate versus quality examples for a couple of titles from our HDR catalog. We present two sets. The first set (Fig.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

Best Practices 186

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 186

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Real-time detection for fast remediation.

Engineering 179

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 179

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. In this example, Grabner saw that the adservice workload was running on EKS and could see the relevant metrics, logs, services, events, error logs, and more.

Development 258

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For example, how much does a reduction in MTTR impact revenue? These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. For example, generative AI has the potential to provide more intuitive methods of querying data.

Best Practices 188

Best Practices Engineering DevOps Software Engineering 188

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. DevOps is a widely practiced set of procedures and tools for streamlining the development, release, and updating of software. DevOps orchestration in practice. Automation versus orchestration.

DevOps 206

DevOps Virtualization Innovation Best Practices 206

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Mobile analytics can help organizations optimize their mobile application performance, earning customer accolades and increasing revenue in the process. After investigating, the software engineering team discovered that it wasn’t leveraging application performance monitoring (APM) tooling data to its full potential.

Mobile 208

Mobile Analytics Best Practices Software Engineering 208

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based “It’s quite a big scale,” said an engineer at the financial services group. Ingesting, processing, retaining, and querying logs.

Analytics 184

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 184

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year.

DevOps 194

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 194

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. Another key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 is organizations’ growing adoption of platform engineering , which helps accelerate the delivery of software applications.

Performance 182

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 182

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

For detailed instructions, see the topic Example configuration of service-level objective definitions in the Dynatrace documentation. Again, for details about this process, see the topic Example configuration of service-level objective definitions in the Dynatrace documentation. Web service 99.5% x 1) + (94 x 0.75) = 290.5

Mobile 178

Mobile Metrics Software Engineering Availability 178

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You apply for multiple roles at the same company and proceed through the interview process with each hiring team separately, despite the fact that there is tremendous overlap in the roles. Interviewing can be a daunting endeavor and how companies, and teams, approach the process varies greatly.

Engineering 199

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 199

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

Open Source 151

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 151

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Get started today! .

Performance 239

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 239

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples , Feser et al., ” Never mind, because the ideas in the paper are still very connected to a question I’m fascinated by at the moment: “how will we be developing software systems over this coming decade?” PLDI’15. High-level approach.

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. It can then analyze incoming events in this rich context to provide high quality insights, alerting, and feedback.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. It can then analyze incoming events in this rich context to provide high quality insights, alerting, and feedback.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

Tasktop

MARCH 5, 2020

This article will introduce you to six more ServiceNow integration patterns that are helping organizations to improve software delivery efficiency and business outcomes. . #2 As the issue progresses through development and test, its status is updated in ServiceNow to keep the support engineer in the loop. .

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Software Software Azure 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0 (i.e., In Software 1.0

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. All the data bound to hosts is analyzed by the Davis AI causation engine and made available on custom dashboards and events pages.

Infrastructure 134

Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring Software Engineering 134

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 17, 2018

When starting SQL Server on Linux why are there two (2) sqlservr processes? systemctl status mssql-server mssql-server.service – Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine … CGroup: /system.slice/mssql-server.service ??85829 The parent process handles basic configuration activities and then forks the child process.

Servers 40

Servers Processing Software Engineering Traffic 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If a user encounters an error page on a website, for example, it’s vital to trace the behavior to the original source of failure. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code. AWS monitoring best practices.

Best Practices 208

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 208

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

Data Engineering 130

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Healthcare 130

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Team Flow Event Storming is also a great technique for mapping out and visualizing value stream-like processes collaboratively.

Software Architecture 98

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software 98

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace.

Architecture 98

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy 98

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. This is an amazing movement providing numerous opportunities for product innovation, but managing this growth has introduced a support burden of ensuring proper security authentication & authorization, cloud hygiene, and scalable processes.

AWS 251

AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 251

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As it often happens in software engineering projects, the project took longer than expected to finish, mostly because the problem of tracking and visualizing thousands of concurrent objects in real-time in a highly distributed environment is a surprisingly non-trivial problem (duh!). Example task-level plugin Try it at home!

Open Source 222

Open Source Monitoring Scalability Code 222

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As a platform for helping development teams to plan, track, and release software, it’s no wonder that Jira is such a popular Agile Planning tool. But if you’re part of a large and complex organization, Jira probably isn’t the only tool you’re using in your software delivery toolchain. But First, Why Integrate Jira? .

Azure 59

Azure Software Engineering DevOps Engineering 59

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Previous posts have discussed partitioning, for example, a partitioned memory object [link] and how a latch maintains the desired access (exclusive, shared, …) [link]. For example: When ‘use database’ takes place the session acquires a shared lock on database. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 103

Servers Database Scalability Tuning 103

J. Paul Reed

JULY 17, 2023

It usually refers a project that seeks to update (or, more often, completely replace) a business-critical, “legacy” piece of software or infrastructure, but with the added challenge of doing so without disrupting whatever’s in production (and, more importantly, its ability to generate revenue).

Infrastructure 96

Infrastructure Engineering Systems Software 96