The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. This significantly increases event latency.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? Automating IT practices without integrated AIOps presents several challenges. While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. As a result, there can be pressure to begin modernizing a part of the system that will have a clear business impact.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Indeed, organizations view IT modernization and cloud computing as intertwined with their business strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. First, cloud environments present substantial observability issues given their increasing complexity and dynamism. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! Late-arriving data is essentially delayed data due to system retries, network delays, batch processing schedules, system outages, delayed upstream workflows, or reconciliation in source systems.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. That’s because of the heterogeneity of the data their environments generate and the limitations of the systems they rely on to analyze this information.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly adept at identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. The centrality of zero-day attacks suggests that organizations need a better strategy to fend off these attacks. DevSecOps: Integrating security into DevOps. Read more now.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 7, 2023

They can also use generative AI for cybersecurity, write prototype code, and implement complex software systems. Pairing generative AI with causal AI One key strategy is to pair generative AI with causal AI , providing organizations with better-quality data and answers as they make key decisions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? Read report now!

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This implies that when the status is unfavorable, implementing sophisticated alerting methods like error budget burn rate alerting presents challenges and is therefore not applicable. Conclusion An effective Service Level Objective (SLO) holds more value than numerous alerts, reducing unnecessary noise in monitoring systems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

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Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

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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. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. Consumers expect personalized, proactive, and convenient service, which traditional application architectures often struggle to provide. Improved customer experience. Competitive advantage.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. An AMET is an architecture Enabling Team that helps to coordinate and upskill all teams and stakeholders involved in a modernization initiative. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 18, 2021

To view the full presentation, click here. In this fascinating presentation, both Dominica and Tashfeen gave insight into how one of the largest insurance companies in North America evolved to conduct experiments during their open enrollment season. To view the full presentation, click here. – Dr. Mik Kersten.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most fundamental and difficult challenge. The Core Domain(s) are parts of the system with the highest return on investment for the business. Slack started life as internal chat system for a company in the video games market.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Your company operates a massive distributed architecture that spans multiple data centers and cloud providers, and your databases are a crucial part of this infrastructure. As a first task, Vanessa plans an access control roll-out strategy. They can only view information and can’t add services or do any harm to the system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. At present, customer satisfaction is certainly a priority. Information architecture. And vice versa.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Fast forward to the present, and Amazon has clearly given up on the goal of finding the best result for its users. Google, for example, invented the Large Language model architecture that underlies today’s disruptive AI startups. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.”

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. E.g. Genesis, commodity.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction. To paraphrase W.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. Both a wide and deep knowledge of the business and domain is essential.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The complexity of these factors makes it difficult to determine the best creative strategy for upcoming titles. For many teams and titles, Stills are essential to Netflix’s promotional asset strategy. With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Thoughtful and effective decision-making was a key trend at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019. The ability to make good decisions might be the most important aspect of a software architecture practitioner’s job. Every day.every week.every month, you make critical architectural decisions.

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Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

roles to build a solution for just one product value stream, as well as laying the architectural foundations to scale across multiple value streams in your portfolio. Visualization Expert: Designs, develops and maintains changes to dashboard (such as Tableau) presenting value stream metrics. Presentation is everything.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. The outcome of the presentation and the follow up discussions at Neotys PAC lead to Pitometer!

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