The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. We have identified some interesting patterns while doing online reinforcement learning.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution. It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, there are cases where the same column is defined on multiple indexes in order to serve different query patterns, and sometimes some of the indexes created for the same column are redundant, leading to more overhead when inserting or deleting data (as indexes are updated) and increased disk space for storing the indexes for the table.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. Employ Critical CSS. This is great news for users! This is on purpose.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data. These applications can range from simple map viewers to complex spatial analysis tools.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management.

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Percona

JULY 15, 2023

Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification. As such, index design should consider the size of indexed columns and the potential benefits they offer.

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Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 115

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 115

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

These excellent tools are built for purpose, such as planning, design, development, testing, service desk and so on, and enable specialists teams to do their jobs more efficiently and collaboratively. Start stitching your integration patterns today. Click image to download e-book. Click image to download e-book. Learn more.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Back of the Napkin #.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since its introduction, Gandalf has significantly improved deployment times, cutting them in half across the entire production fleet. Gandalf system design. Supervised learning struggles with the constant changing of signal and failure patterns in the underlying system. From signals to decisions.

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Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Secondly, Let’s Encrypt managed to find a sustainable funding model for a combination of an open source project and free online service, as compared to the more normal pattern which sadly seems to involve running a small number of beneficent maintainers into the ground. Navigating the SSL marketplace was difficult and confusing.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Adaptive Web Design, 2nd Edition by Aaron Gustafson. In the case of Adaptive Web Design , I wouldn’t have been upset if that was the case. But the second edition of Adaptive Web Design isn’t just a minor update—it’s a completely new take on the topic. Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles by Ethan Marcotte.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Introduction to Chaos Architecture: Gaining from Learning Loops and System Weaknesses , by Russ Miles, ChaosIQ.io. Technology Strategy Patterns for Architects , by Eben Hewitt, Sabre. Many organizations think about embracing the domain-driven design (DDD) philosophy but wonder about the long game—where will we be seven years from now?

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We have started our introduction with the words “JavaScript-based” technologies. The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Developer toolset: React js gives developers with debugging and design tools, guaranteeing high performance.

Open Source 52

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Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

While it was a challenge to remember every single concept or term stuck during the first two weeks, I found that these sessions were an excellent introduction to the realm of integrations, and was a helpful preview into the things we would encounter during a typical working day. I definitely had, and still have, a lot to learn.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These criteria have been designed to ensure that sites which invoke prompts are reliable, fast, and engaging. In January 2015 I designed the criteria that Chrome uses to trigger “Add to Homescreen” prompts. That set of choices is an anti-pattern for a news app. For most sites Responsive Design is appropriate.

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Mobile Network Education Design 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

In introducing far memory Google faced a number of challenges: workloads are very diverse and change all the time, both in job mixes and in utilisation (including diurnal patterns), and there is near zero tolerance for application slowdown. while having negligible impact on applications. Evaluation.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. The introduction of our CDN solution prompted a dramatic decrease in TTFB, from 2 seconds to 1.24 SEO is key to our success.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

To understand if we're in a drought, we have to look at the levels of the reservoirs and seasonal rainfall patterns. Developers expect some lag between the introduction of native features and corresponding browser APIs. <dialog> A built-in mechanism for a common UI pattern, improving performance and consistency.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article I’ll outline my mental model why multithreading is important on the web, I’ll give you an introduction to the primitives that we as developers have at our disposal, and I’ll talk a bit about architectures that make it easy to adopt multithreading, even incrementally. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. IPS enables users to continue to use the data processing patterns with minimal changes. Introduction Netflix relies on data to power its business in all phases. data arrives too late to be useful).

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Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This article shows how an adaptive join works, includes details of the threshold calculation, and covers the implications of some of the design choices made. Introduction. Rounded to six significant figures, this result matches the 1502.07 rows shown in the adaptive join execution plan: Defect or Design? By Design?

Servers 98

Servers Design Database Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

In this article, I’m going to discuss some front-end patterns to reduce CLS. With that brief introduction to some of the methodology about CLS, let’s move on to some of the solutions ! On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Saying that, if you solve the causes of that 0.06

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. What was problematic about this design?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. There's reason to worry that this is unlikely. But that's no reason to delay.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions. Propensity to category expansion.

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