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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages. We didn't have to build any of that heavy infrastructure. An even more stark example is Facebook.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. Easy scalability. million in 2020. The classes of CaaS. Process portability. CaaS vs. PaaS.

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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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Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Dynatrace

While engaging the automatic instrumentation of the Dynatrace OneAgent makes log ingestion automatic and scalable , our customers have set up multiple other log ingestion methods. Syslog is a popular standard for transporting and Ingesting log messages. Log ingestion strategy no. 1: Welcome syslog, with the help of Fluentd.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?