The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. ” First, Akamas collects metrics, then recommends configuration improvements and applies these recommendations. It’s using 1.5

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Lambda functions allow teams to run code for applications, back-end services, streaming processing, or any layer of the stack with less overhead. Return larger payload sizes.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. Managing these risks involves using a range of technology solutions, from in-house, do-it-yourself solutions to third-party, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. When an incident occurs, developers need to know what data to look at, where the incident occurred, and other relevant metrics. How do you know if this problem has business impact?

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. Below, several Dynatrace customers shared their SLO management journey and discussed the resulting dashboards they rely on daily to manage their mission-critical business processes and applications. What are SLOs? Saturation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Based on those insights, they implemented automated validation tasks, and shifted left in their software delivery pipeline. What’s next?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In response to this trend, open source communities birthed new companies like WSO2 (of course, industry giants like Google, IBM, Software AG, and Tibco are also competing for a piece of the API management cake). High latency or lack of responses. Looking at the key metrics of the deployment does not reveal anything out of the ordinary.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case. Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Monitoring focuses on watching specific metrics. Here’s a closer look at logs, metrics, and distributed traces.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Architecting service-level objectives (SLOs) , along with service-level agreements and service-level indicators, is a great way for teams to evaluate and measure software performance that stays within error budgets. service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. But there are SLO pitfalls.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

We will also explore the evolution of DevOps automation and the significance of data-driven answers in unlocking streamlined, automated DevOps and SRE processes. Business process automation Business process automation is the foundation for improving operational efficiency. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? As defined by Gartner , service-level objectives are an agreed-upon target within an SLA that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to provide the best opportunity for customer success.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to Spark, we want to support last-mile data processing in Python, addressing use cases such as feature transformations, batch inference, and training. We use metaflow.Table to resolve all input shards which are distributed to Metaflow tasks which are responsible for processing terabytes of data collectively.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability tools, such as metrics monitoring, log viewers, and tracing applications, are relatively small in scope.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

As more organizations respond to the pressure to release better software faster, there is an increasing need to build quality gates into every stage of BizDevOps processes , from early development to deployment. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 179

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line. What is digital experience monitoring?

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The Serverless Process. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. The average request is handled, processed, and returned quickly. Services scale to meet demand.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. When monitoring, it’s important to track metrics that describe the vital aspects of an application’s performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Dynatrace is naturally suited to address these requirements with its automatic and AI-powered full-stack software intelligence platform. Dynatrace software intelligence helps you manage Citrix environments and real user experience more effectively. SAP GUI delivered via Citrix – a process on Citrix VDA. Image callout numbers.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

A full-stack observability solution uses telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces to give IT teams insight into application, infrastructure, and UX performance. Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. See observability in action!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. A general process. ICSE’19.

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Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. This simplifies debugging and analysis processes by enabling users to execute the same query. About the environment Grafana: version 10.0.0

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 125

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

MARCH 17, 2021

These days, everything is about software. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform analyzes data in an automated and scalable manner. But what if a particular metric that’s crucial to your monitoring needs isn’t covered out of the box? By using these APIs, you can add metrics, events, and logs. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Monitoring Network Technology 167