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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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks. Security by design enhanced by unified observability and security – blog Business spend management company Soldo uses unified observability and security to implement efficient security-by-design and DevSecOps practices.

Artificial Intelligence 235

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application).

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Percona

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Take a look. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0 was released.

Servers 73

Servers Monitoring Open Source Scalability 73

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Take a look. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0 was released on December 12, 2023.

Monitoring 84

Monitoring Open Source Servers Scalability 84

Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. Take a look!

Open Source 81

Open Source Database Servers Scalability 81

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These include ETL pipelines, ML model training workflows, batch jobs, etc. Similarly, ML model training workflows usually consist of tens of thousands of training jobs within a single workflow. We use Netflix open source project Conductor as a library to manage the workflow state machine in Maestro.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. Last re:Invent, to make the problem of authoring, training, and hosting ML models easier, faster, and more reliable, we launched Amazon SageMaker. Machine learning models are usually trained tens or hundreds of times. In machine learning, more is usually more.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. was released, the most stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL distribution.

Open Source 75

Open Source Servers Scalability Database 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

which has received some specialized training. with specialized training. GPT-2 is open source. GPT-3 and GPT-4 are not open source, but are available for free and paid access. Sydney is based on GPT-4, 1 with additional training. BLOOM An open source model developed by the BigScience workshop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. Since the needs of data-intensive applications are diverse, it is useful to have a general-purpose compute layer that can handle different types of tasks from IO-heavy data processing to training large models on GPUs. Software Development Layers.

DevOps 137

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 137

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

Open Source 75

Open Source Servers AWS Database 75

Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Efficient and apt test coverage covers all minute points & areas, that many times go neglected. Not providing proper training to team members. Training and adaptation. The introduction of any tool requires proper training of the tool to the members who will be using it. The best way to do this is by offering training.

Testing 73

Testing Open Source Strategy Processing 73

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Open Source 76

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 76

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started This offers not just an audit train but an “audit trail on steroids.”‍A

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 87

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 87

Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

Open Source 61

Open Source Azure Servers Database 61

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint simply falling offline. Having this real-time outlook enables your business to operate with efficiency by proactively identifying and altering for both hard and soft failures. What ruins a digital experience? Here are a few reasons user experiences can fail.

Mobile 222

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 222

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264, 264, a.k.a.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

For example, one instructor was worried about recent lawsuits around Copilot’s use of open-source code as training data without attribution. Others shared concerns over the training data bias for AI tools. Also, since AI tools are typically trained on U.S./English-centric slang) from their countries.

Programming 60

Programming Education Code Strategy 60

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These models will continue to become more powerful.

Social Media 136

Social Media Media Internet Internet 136

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind. significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A company then needed to train up their ops team to manage the cluster, and their analysts to express their ideas in MapReduce. The overall idea of generative AI is to get a model to create content that could have reasonably fit into its training data. A basic, production-ready cluster priced out to the low-six-figures.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Millions of lines of code comprise these apps, and they include hundreds of interconnected digital services and open-source solutions , and run in containerized environments hosted across multiple cloud services. Digital teams use APM tools to view and address the many variables that can impact an application’s performance.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. And to give you the power of testing with speed and for increased test efficiency — automation testing is the way to go. Also, Sauce Labs offers its tool at no cost for open-source projects.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Entertainment 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters. When it comes to making a decision at a node in the tree, each node has a fixed threshold t , learned during the training phase, against which it compares the input value. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52