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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. 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. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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Fallacy #7: Transport cost is zero

Particular Software

In order to connect our data center to the rest of the world, we must exchange currency for the transport of our bits and bytes. In order to have distributed systems, it’s necessary to take objects in memory, serialize them for transmission on the network, and then deserialize them at the other end.

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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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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Log4Shell highlights need for secure digital transformation with observability, vulnerability management

Dynatrace

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. With Dynatrace Application Security, the Avisi team resolved Log4Shell on all their systems before they went home that night, and no one worked over the weekend. When Log4Shell emerged, it put that data at risk.

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Unlocking Enterprise systems using voice

All Things Distributed

The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. As a result, they fail to deliver a truly seamless and customer-centric experience that integrates our digital systems into our analog lives.

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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. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure.

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