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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We informed our engineering and business partners, including customer support, about the experiment and ramped up traffic incrementally while monitoring the success and error metrics through Lumen dashboards. We continued ramping up and eventually reached 100% replay. At this point we felt confident to run the replay traffic 24/7.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. The batch job creates a high-level summary that captures some key comparison metrics.

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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics. Higher variance means a less stable metric across pages. I can see from the screenshot above that TTFB is my most stable metrics—no one page appears to have particularly expensive database queries or API calls on the back-end.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. the difference in metric values between Groups A and B?—?the The variability of the metric in the underlying population. Sample size.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric. In other words, where the application code resides.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Uplevel your gamechanging skills at Perform 2022

Dynatrace

Attendees will have the same great Dynatrace experts teaching the sessions live via webcam (and we’d highly encourage you to turn on your webcam as well), the same virtual classroom to join and complete the hands-on exercises, and the same great content.