The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. An example is kubectl-flame ( [link] ). ✔ Launching profiler. ✔ Profiling.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Shown below are screenshots of the Netflix app on iOS as an example. As seen above, image assets typically have gradients, text and graphics , for example the Netflix symbol or other title-specific symbols such as “The Witcher” insignia, composited on the image. Let us take color subsampling as an example.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Dynatrace is among the first set of partners to offer support for AWS Distributor , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, that allows you to select from available popular third party agents to install and manage. What is AWS Systems Manager Distributor? In the navigation pane, select Distributor.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

The automated extraction of ownership information, for example, from Kubernetes annotations, is therefore essential. Keeping ownership teams and their properties up to date is essential, as is having the right contact information available when needed. An example via Monaco can be found in this public GitHub repository.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

AutomationEngine provides a low-code/no-code approach to model workflows for targeted notification and collaboration, closed-loop remediation, quality/security gating, and more. AutomationEngine workflow example for a bespoke ordering system. Examples of each of these custom extension types are detailed below.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? The scale and the highly distributed systems result in enormous amounts of data. They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, government agencies use an array of cloud platforms spanning 12 environments on average. Critical infrastructure and services refer to the systems, facilities, and assets vital for the functioning of society and the economy. Protecting these systems is integral to ensuring national security.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By adding Flutter support, we’re giving you more freedom to choose what best fits your use case and available resources. When you set up user actions in your code, OneAgent automatically links associated web requests to those user actions. Let Dynatrace Davis AI alert you to detected anomalies in usage patterns.

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Dynatrace

MAY 29, 2024

To address this challenge, the Dynatrace App Toolkit allows you to create custom workflow actions, providing seamless integration with third-party systems. IDE or text editor of your choice (VS Code recommended) Now, consider your use case! Is there an API available for this purpose? What do you wish to automate?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Building effective and reliable systems is only possible with automation, which, in the past, proved difficult due to the following issues: Complexity of systems: The complexity of modern systems makes it difficult to gather all the necessary information to automate decision-making.

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Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

When code breaks, our first move is carefully inspecting the call stack. However, in a message-based system, we no longer have a single call stack. The problem Because message-driven systems are asynchronous and run in multiple processes, debugging is naturally more complex than in a single-process application.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. To keep these tickets consistent and up-to-date, bi-directional integration with ticketing systems is paramount. How is this done? Slow microservices.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s why many organizations are turning to generative AI—which uses its training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries—and platform engineering to create new efficiencies and opportunities for innovation. No one will be around who fully understands the code.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. From here, it’s time to consider the next level of energy optimization, green coding.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Dynatrace analytics capabilities, powered by hypermodal AI , enable executives to drive improved availability , strengthened security compliance , and heightened confidence in AI initiatives. Executives are shifting to proactive risk management, aiming to prevent availability issues and expedite remediation.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. Adrian Bece. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. And by “sample” we mean “an example”, like food samples in your local grocery store. " , country_code STRING COMMENT "Country code of the playback session."

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s interesting to note that many of the CMS systems available today started as simple blogging platforms. When choosing a CMS system, there are a few things to remember. While some CMS systems can be expensive, many options are available. Top 5 Content Management Systems to Use in 2023!

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. What is Azure Linux?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. Changes in application code or configurations can impact performance metrics, affecting user experience and application functionality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. While classic logging is an essential tool in debugging issues, it often lacks context and only provides snapshot information of one specific location in your code/application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It offers all the functionality we need to deploy our application in production, with a hybrid system with static pages and server-side rendered (SSR) pages. Environment variables are used in the browser code, not just server code. Code splitting: loads chunk corresponding to the page path. SSR Benefits (Next.js).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. or 99.99% of the time.

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. On-screen information for users: The information which is required by the user should be available on the application screen itself. He may think that the software got stuck and a system restart is needed. The UI is meant to be intuitive and easy for the user.

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