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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. As a result, it saves critical developer time and expedites the mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

He goes into detail covering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that a website or application is prepared for an influx of traffic, from scoping and testing to setting expectations and creating a contingency plan. “There are a lot of different scenarios where you will be expecting more traffic than normal.”

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. The best way to load scripts asynchronously is to use the async attribute.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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