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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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

Dynatrace

Metrics, on the other hand, allow us to visualize key figures, such as the number of concurrent requests, traffic generated by the agents, the statistical distribution of error codes, and the number of possibly failed agent requests.

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Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

The Netflix TechBlog

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

The company has used AWS to build an IT innovation zone, based upon open source products, which is being used to launch new innovations for customers like E-Mobility and E-thermostat products with a very fast time-to-market. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Simple streaming telemetry

The Netflix TechBlog

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. Where is Cacti for streaming telemetry?

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers have confidence to receive change events as they occur on a source.

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