The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence, it became important to supplement our release decisions with strong evidence received from the field during the update process. As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, All these definitions are distinct and important. Containment: Implements actions to safeguard affected systems, resolves incidents quickly and escalates an event to other teams when necessary. This does not include lag time in the alert system.

DevOps 207

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 207

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

Best Practices 83

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 83

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs.

Metrics 178

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 178

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. How do you make a system ‘observable’?

IoT 161

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 161

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Identify the gaps in your process to avoid similar bugs in the future. Strengthen or change your process as per your context. Use the learnings to update and improve your test strategy, plan, test cases, and automated tests. Seek help from your team if you do not clearly understand a feature/system/module.

Education 105

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This paper was published at OOPSLA, but perhaps it’s amongst the distributed systems community that I expect there to be the greatest interest. The paper sets the discussion in the context of geo-replicated distributed systems, but of course the same mechanisms could be equally useful in the context of local-first applications.

Strategy 104

Strategy Latency Systems Processing 104

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s no surprise under that definition that we spend far more time on program maintenance than on initial development. Through that lens we are drawn to think about the life cycle of software systems, the evolutionary forces at play, and how we can guide and manage that evolution. The three types of program.

Programming 99

Programming Software Software Software Engineering 99

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Configurations such as dashboards, alerting rules and Service Level Objective definitions are left to be created separately, and often manually. They will adopt your monitoring self-service platform instead of building a custom monitoring solution that fits into their development process and mindset. Identifiers are great!

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Monitoring Azure 139

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

In this blog, we deep dive into the various aspects of mobile website testing, including the tools that can accelerate the testing process. As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing?

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 1931 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem shattered the dream, showing that for any consistent axiomatic system there will always be theorems that cannot be proven within the system. To show that a machine learning model is fair, you need information from outside of the system. These are both utility based definitions.

Metrics 109

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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. Time and resources are limited. A concept known as the Core Domain. This represents a compelling ROI.

Open Source 87

Open Source Games Innovation Strategy 87

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Whenever a new methodology or a new system is introduced, with it – certain terms and guidelines are introduced too. But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature.

Testing 56

Testing Strategy Software Software 56

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

Making predictions is a dangerous game, but as we look forward to the next decade a few things seem certain: increasing automation, increasing system complexity, faster processing, more inter-connectivity, and an even greater human and societal dependence on technology. Automated systems need highly skilled operators.

Games 84

Games Monitoring Speed Systems 84

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

You can add any information you want here to communicate the alignment with the business strategy. scheduled jobs, or kicking off a business process when responding to an event published by another context (strictly speaking this isn’t part of the public interface, but it seems useful to add it here).

Design 72

Design Strategy Innovation Processing 72

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on).

Strategy 135

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 135

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. Because most of those have been deployed in such a way that they are only communicating with trusted internal systems.

Social Media 92

Social Media Media Website Database 92

Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

Also, if the application covers a large user base then definitely it is next to impossible to manually cover all possible device, browser, platform, and version combinations that your target audience may be using. Definitely yes we can! Hence, human focus and attention can be used on making better decisions and testing strategies.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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 I use them whenever designing system boundaries as a checklist to help me consider the many different ways in which a system could be designed. I hope you find these variables useful.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. Neither strategy paid off. Both companies burned through billions of dollars of investor capital on losing strategies in the handset market. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

There are other systems involved in this tangled relationship. A software system is a model of a domain. The Business Model Canvas If you’re not familiar, here’s a quick definition of the main elements: Customers Segments = who do we provide value for? Key activities are processes in the domain.

Software Architecture 69

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 69

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

It makes business sense to hire cheap programmers and put in place a standard process. However, as software systems age, the time it takes to add new features grows exponentially?—?and However, it definitely is not. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. and business innovation speed plummets.

Software Engineering 76

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand.

Design 114

Design Website Efficiency Games 114

Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. It is quite an interesting blog that compares archery with testing and provides clarity about the testing process. Definitely, it supercharges your coffee and your tester friend is going to love it totally.

Software 52

Software Software Java Testing 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

To start the process of thinking about holiday readiness, he recommends that questions be asked such as, “How many people are we sending out to? ” For the back end, Howard notes that load and scalability testing should be incorporated and then combined with APM data to give an understanding of what is happening within the system.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This paper describes in-toto , and end-to-end system for ensuring the integrity of a software supply chain. If an attacker can control any step in the pipeline they may be able to modify the output of the process for malicious purposes. TUF bootstraps the root of trust for the pipeline system. There are glimmers of hope though.

Transportation 52

Transportation Software Software Strategy 52

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.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Testers: Ensure a rigorous testing process (combined with test automation) that can swiftly find and fix tool defects and bugs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whatever you build, it better be able to handle capture, storage and processing in the face of changing artifact schema across all tools. Tool Experts/Architects. Developers.

Metrics 52

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The benefit for customers: Authorized users can view this data and therefore manage their inventories across different sites, making the maintenance processes much more efficient. Therefore, IT has never been more important for strategy than it is now – not only for us, but for every company in the digital age. More than mere support.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. Manually constructed continuous delivery system.

Storage 201

Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 201

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, this is one of the factors to introduce automation in the system. The processes are too complex today and even if you take Eclipse in your local system, you know how troublesome it becomes to eradicate all the errors. There will definitely be other things in between though. Testsigma is giving 30 days free trial.

Strategy 71

Strategy Testing Cloud Virtualization 71

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. With the right backup strategy , you’ll be better able to achieve the aforementioned business continuity. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

Database 84

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 84

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Testers: Ensure a rigorous testing process (combined with test automation) that can swiftly find and fix tool defects and bugs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whatever you build, it better be able to handle capture, storage and processing in the face of changing artifact schema across all tools. Tool Experts/Architects. Developers.

Metrics 40

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 40