The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? This can become an issue for some applications, for example, on mobile devices with limited network bandwidth.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

OKRs should be designed so that every team’s activities can be traced up to the company’s vision. This is easier said than done, so we’ve designed three sets of OKRs examples for software companies to show how it’s possible. Get the ebook on designing flow-based OKRs. This is your Objective.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. 2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. A PUE of 1.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

There are 2 major challenges to succeed in our mission: We want to democratize the platform and create a contribution model: with a developer and production deployment experience that is designed for data scientists and friendly to the stacks they use. We support data scientists to have freedom to explore research in any new direction.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Bring logic to data with easy-to-build apps As a unified observability and security platform, Dynatrace is designed to be open and customizable from the ground up. Let’s explore some real-life custom solution examples that leverage the power of the Dynatrace core platform technologies to go beyond observability.

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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. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gartner® predicts that by 2026, 40% of log telemetry will be processed through a telemetry pipeline product, up from less than 10% in 2022.* The resulting vast increase in data volume highlights the need for more efficient data handling solutions. As a result, only authorized users can view or modify data within a designated bucket.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

However, with responsive website designing, a website would automatically adjust to the screen size of the device on which it’s opened. In this article, we will discuss the role of responsive website design in the Ecommerce industry. For example, if your website contains two columns, they will appear on a single screen on a laptop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations. Video downscaling is the most pertinent example herein, which tailors our encoding to screen resolutions of different devices and optimizes picture quality under varying network conditions. We have also measured a ~4.4%

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While customers use observability platforms to identify issues in cloud environments, the next chapter of value is removing manual work from processes and building IT automation into their organizations. Organizations need to incorporate IT automation into their processes to take action on the data they gather. Greifeneder noted.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

We have deployed Auto Remediation in production for handling memory configuration errors and unclassified errors of Spark jobs and observed its efficiency and effectiveness (e.g., For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Aligning workload types and sizes with instance performance and capacity requirements is essential to keep costs down.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2024

The goal is to unify four key areas of the organization into one holistic service design and delivery approach. For example, an employee might not have the tools to efficiently retrieve data about a customer as they work to solve an issue. This could lead to frustration on both sides and create negative experiences.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results. Sort By Column. Elasticsearch ). Conclusion.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. At a glance – TLDR.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! We’ll discuss batch data processing, the limitations we faced, and how Psyberg emerged as a solution. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? How does late-arriving data impact us?

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

Executing PITR requires restoring from the full backup and then applying binary log events in sequence up to the desired point in time, with advanced techniques and third-party tools available to optimize large dataset handling and automate the recovery process. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. While human-friendly APIs are delightful, it is really the integrations to our production systems that give Metaflow its superpowers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a result, IT organizations are overwhelmed as they strive to balance cost control processes with ensuring that their respective organizations have access to all the data required for their various use cases. Ingest and process. In contrast, answer-centric pricing simply charges customers when they query data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

AI can help automate tasks, improve efficiency, and identify potential problems before they occur. Data, AI, analytics, and automation are key enablers for efficient IT operations Data is the foundation for AI and IT automation. IT automation also helps improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks.

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Edge Perspectives

MARCH 26, 2019

In our Big Shift world, we confront the imperative of institutional innovation – shifting from institutional models built on scalable efficiency to institutional models built on scalable learning. I’ve written and spoken about this a lot over the years and one of the most common pushbacks I get is – “so, are you against efficiency?”

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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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. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Democratizing Stream Processing @ Netflix By Guil Pires , Mark Cho , Mingliang Liu , Sujay Jain Data powers much of what we do at Netflix. On the Data Platform team, we build the infrastructure used across the company to process data at scale. In our last blog post, we introduced “Data Mesh” — A Data Movement and Processing Platform.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A DevSecOps approach advances the maturity of DevOps practices by incorporating security considerations into every stage of the process, from development to deployment. DevSecOps best practices provide guidelines to help organizations achieve efficient and secure application design, development, implementation, and management.

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