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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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year. were all at the Forum.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

To address this challenge, we developed Smart Scaler, a tool designed to automate infrastructure and application resource scaling. Over the years, I’ve collaborated closely with various teams to ensure systems function properly. However, this presented a significant friction point in current operating models.

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Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. Is this the best way to build a system, though? One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. It gets worse.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. You work with a designer and developer to create a bespoke website.

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InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. Streaming Platforms Commercial streaming platforms shown in Figure 1 mainly rely on Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. The functionality and complexity of business-oriented AI applications have increased exponentially.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Software Development goes through many phases like requirement gathering & analysis, communication, design, code building, testing, and release. Unit testing Frameworks like JUnit and TestNG present similar test roots, so the debate over TestNG vs. JUnit persists. What is Unit Testing?

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, most monitoring solutions are deployed piecemeal or simply don’t support integration with other critical systems. Because Dynatrace provides such a comprehensive monitoring system , a dashboard filled with detailed monitoring data isn’t useful for many higher-level stakeholders.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Vitaly Friedman.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ve built the ability to track all business SLOs [service-level objectives].” And with Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian , all teams across the organization can understand how their specific silo operates in relation to critical systems. The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

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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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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. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. Interviews can range from standard software engineer coding questions to questions on system design, Linux debugging, and DevOps tools.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI. As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks. ’ and ‘How compliant are we?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too. Andrew Clarke. 2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models.

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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 how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino discuss how their ticketing systems work and cover the virtual waiting room – the primary component that allows them to handle high-traffic ticket on-sales. By Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. This repetition can be fabulous for your productivity, but when each design looks much like your last, you can quickly begin to feel jaded. Andrew Clarke.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy.

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