The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

By Cyril Concolato Introduction In previous blog posts, our colleagues at Netflix have explained how 4K video streams are optimized , how even legacy video streams are improved and more recently how new audio codecs can provide better aural experiences to our members. Figure 1?—?Simplified That is where standards play a key role.

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Simform

JULY 26, 2021

Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Or, terms security and quantum computers are often associated with Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) or Quantum True Random Number (QTRNG) technologies. Otherwise, there is a risk of repeating many of the mistakes from classical computers where, for many years, security at the hardware and architecture levels was an afterthought.

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Simform

JULY 23, 2021

Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. When organising technology teams to build digital products and services, it is necessary to determine which parts of the product, user experience, and technology each team owns. The answer is all of them.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While technologies have enabled new productivity and efficiencies, customer expectations have grown exponentially, cyberthreat risks continue to mount, and the pace of business has sped up. It’s being recognized around the world as a transformative technology for delivering productivity gains. What is artificial intelligence?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. It consists of two building blocks, a preprocessing block and a resizing block.

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Simform

JUNE 2, 2022

Microservices architecture helps achieve better flexibility, testability, and scalability for functionalities. However, the execution of architecture has several challenges which a microservice design pattern can help overcome. This article explores such design patterns in detail to help you select the right one.

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Simform

MARCH 30, 2022

Microservices design principles allow developers to make critical design decisions about their architecture, the frameworks and tools they can utilize to navigate the vast technology landscape. Let’s look into the concepts to know more about its design principles and how the architecture responds to every principle.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

It requires specialized talent, a new technology stack to manage and deploy models, an ample budget for rising compute costs, and end-to-end security. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

In this blog post, we explore real-life scenarios shared by our customers, partners, and internal users at Dynatrace, offering inspiration to kickstart your own journey with custom solutions powered by AppEngine. Custom solutions come in all shapes and sizes, providing value for customers, partners, and internal Dynatrace users.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. According to the recent Dynatrace report, “ The state of AI 2024 ,” 83% of technology leaders said AI has become mandatory to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud environments. What is explainable AI?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

To combat these challenges, organizations need an IT culture that addresses security resilience from the outset—also known as security by design —which, in turn, supports business resilience. Adopting cloud-native technologies and open source software makes applications more feature rich and scalable, but it also increases IT complexity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components. This messaging system is described in this blog post.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. However, these technologies can add to the complexity. As a result, while cloud architecture has enabled organizations to develop applications iteratively, it also increased exposure to vulnerabilities.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved. Make an effort to visualise them.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. Over the past 18 months, the need to utilize cloud architecture has intensified. Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference? – Blog. Dynatrace news. Modern observability vs. monitoring.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud.

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Simform

JULY 19, 2021

With its Component-Based Architecture (CBA), developers could divide the application features into smaller pieces and then encapsulate them to form autonomous and independent systems. The post Building a Scalable and Maintainable Front-End with Component-Based Architecture appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Simform

JULY 19, 2021

With its Component-Based Architecture (CBA), developers could divide the application features into smaller pieces and then encapsulate them to form autonomous and independent systems. The post Building a Scalable and Maintainable Front-End with Component-Based Architecture appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. This data overload also prevents customer-centric pricing models as users consider cost-effective technology platforms. Pricing the actual usage is integral to the financial accountability with the cloud architecture variable spend model.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

To adapt, many are turning to AIOps and other automation technologies to solve the complex issues that accompany cloud-native architecture. As organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, complexity increases. A measured approach to adding new technology to your stack, such as containerizing applications.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

But as IT teams increasingly design and manage cloud-native technologies, the tasks IT pros need to accomplish are equally variable and complex. By sensing, thinking, and acting, these technologies can complete tasks automatically. Dynatrace news. The sense-think-act model for AIOps and observability. Sense’ with observability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps initiatives aren’t rooted in a specific technology. This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. What is DevSecOps?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. We can now start to slice and group those architectural pieces into team-sized chunks and analyse the trade-offs of each pattern, and explore contexts in which they might be applicable.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace’s Lambda extension fully supports Arm-based architectures. In addition, Dynatrace visualizes each Lambda function interactive map of how everything is interconnected using our patented Smartscape technology. You can use Dynatrace to monitor all your AWS Lambda functions, whether they are running on x86 or Arm architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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