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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Extend infrastructure observability with JMX Extensions and additional full-stack metrics

Dynatrace

Infrastructure exists to support the backing services that are collectively perceived by users to be your web application. Issues that manifest themselves as performance degradation on a user’s device can often be traced back to underlying infrastructure issues. Dynatrace news. Monitor additional metrics.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Oracle infrastructure does not offer strong compatibility with open source RDBMS.

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Get out-of-the-box visibility into your ARM platform (Early Adopter)

Dynatrace

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint.

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Applying Netflix DevOps Patterns to Windows

The Netflix TechBlog

Artisan Crafted Images In the Netflix full cycle DevOps culture the team responsible for building a service is also responsible for deploying, testing, infrastructure, and operation of that service. Now each change in the infrastructure is tested, canaried, and deployed like any other code change.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. A Sticky Canary is an infrastructure experiment where customers are assigned either to a canary or baseline host for the entire duration of an experiment. By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL.

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Automatic monitoring of applications and microservices in AWS Fargate

Dynatrace

AWS Fargate is a container-as-a-service offering within AWS Elastic Container Services (ECS) that allows you to run containers at scale without requiring you to manage the infrastructure layer. and includes: Easy, out-of-the-box universal injection for supported application technologies like Java ,NET Core , Golang , Node.js , PHP.

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