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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Fallacy #7: Transport cost is zero

Particular Software

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

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Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

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Dynatrace chooses Denver for latest expansion in North America

Dynatrace

Additionally, the vibrant Lower Downtown (LoDo) neighborhood, access to local amenities, and easy airport and transportation access contributed to Denver’s selection. Its design fosters collaboration and innovation, providing space for up to 400 software intelligence experts in Denver’s vibrant LoDo neighborhood.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our trace data collection agent transports traces to Mantis job cluster via the Mantis Publish library. What’s next?

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 2: OpenTelemetry configuration and instrumenting applications

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. For that, we first import the OpenTelemetry API into our application.

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

Dynatrace

In the ensuing hours and days, Log4Shell became a showstopper for many organizations, requiring them to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to networks and sensitive data. At the same time, they don’t want to sacrifice software quality or security.