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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 distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement.

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

These include Source IP, destination IP, transport protocol, source port, and destination port. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. When it comes to logs and metrics, the Dynatrace platform provides direct access to the log content of all mission-critical processes.

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS).

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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool

Tasktop

While not quite the same experience as dining in, if you close your eyes you can almost transport yourself into your favorite haunt. The below steps give you an idea of just some of the effort, time and costs that go into building a Flow Metrics solution that can scale across your portfolio and organization: . Development Team.

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