The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The talk uses Apache Spark as an example, but the concepts generalize regardless of your specific tools. Learn more about how batch and streaming data pipelines are built at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Business resilience is when organizations have systems and processes in place to protect against unforeseen shocks and build organizational agility. Thus, while business resilience is about protecting against unforeseen risk, it also enables an organization to develop a forward-looking strategy that helps it thrive in uncertain times.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Proactive workforce members are acclimating to these fluid conditions through a variety of strategies, such as career “zigzagging” (a less linear career path that involves diverse roles), career upskilling, and mentoring. She has held positions at Citrix Systems, GitHub, and most recently, VMware. I said, ‘Elevate me, work with me.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Failure to provide timely and accurate answers erodes user trust, hinders adoption, and harms retention.

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience. These retail-business processes must work together efficiently to orchestrate customer satisfaction: Inventory management ensures you can anticipate and meet dynamic customer demand.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! We’ll discuss batch data processing, the limitations we faced, and how Psyberg emerged as a solution. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? How does late-arriving data impact us?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Others involve introducing new threats as AI becomes more integrated into IT systems as a whole. In this article, we explore recent survey data from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), sponsored by Dynatrace, on how organizations approach IT automation, as well as the benefits and challenges they encounter as they adopt it.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. So, what is IT automation?

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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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. Causal AI use cases can complement other types of AI. Government.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Technology and operations teams work to ensure that applications and digital systems work seamlessly and securely. Predictive AI uses statistical algorithms and other advanced machine learning techniques to anticipate what might happen next in a system. This data-driven approach fosters continuous refinement of processes and systems.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. More than 70% of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey now consider IT automation to be a strategic component of their digital transformation strategies. What is a data lakehouse?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes. Time and resources.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Above all, companies modernize and adopt a multicloud strategy to innovate, scale, and increase efficiency. Because data is more distributed and teams collaborate globally with cloud-based applications, IT teams struggle to keep up with the vulnerabilities that threaten these systems. At RSA 2022 , the theme is Transform.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2022

Security blind spots pose a significant threat to an effective DevSecOps strategy and leave organizations vulnerable to attack—in some cases when applications are already live. Integrating security too late in the SDLC, expanding cloud access, and delayed security testing are just a few examples of security roadblocks to effective DevSecOps.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Example #1 – Deploy application code to Kubernetes. The example below demonstrates: Dynatrace automatically added tags created from Kubernetes labels. Kubernetes pod attributes.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing. System testing- checks end to end flows works as expected. Acceptance testing- to validate the system is developed as per business requirement. Re-execute all.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. There are proven strategies for handling this. A massive rush of users over a very short time period makes systems begin to slow, and then potentially return errors. We refer to this as a BizDevOps strategy. Step 2: Understand What to Get Ready for.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These systems are generating more data than ever, and teams simply can’t keep up with a manual approach. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to a system’s ability to mimic human cognitive function. Machine learning applications may be developed standalone, but they’re often part of larger AI systems.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Technology and business leaders express increasing interest in integrating business data into their IT observability strategies, citing the value of effective collaboration between business and IT. Observability fault lines The monitoring of complex and dynamic IT systems includes real-time analysis of baselines, trends, and anomalies.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As the process of cloud modernization becomes ever more complex, there is an even greater need to embrace the emerging role of cloud architect to accelerate transformation. Partners are integral to the process and a necessity if organizations want to achieve faster, greater, and more scalable modernization. . Developers.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

Say, for example, that you have some unused high memory instances (1 TB RAM / 128 vCPU cores or higher). Optimal metric storage management strategy. Unlike our competition, Dynatrace Managed processes all the data sent by OneAgent without sampling. Increased processing power with the update to JRE 11.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

In many industry segments and markets, for example, platform services, we've already witnessed how start-ups and niche providers have unleashed a revolution. There are great examples of German companies that already do this. SKF keeps the strategy of its clients in mind at all times and tries to think along with them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence, it became important to supplement our release decisions with strong evidence received from the field during the update process. As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment. For example, high-quality data and predictive AI enable causal AI to provide precise, continuous, and actionable insights in real time. What is explainable AI?

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

The compromised software can then compromise customer data or IT systems. Attacks often target weaknesses in application source code, which can compromise a trusted application or software system. For example, Company A may rely on Supplier B, which has access to its enterprise resource planning or other systems.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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