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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. However, the inclusion of the HugePages feature allows the Linux kernel to efficiently handle substantial memory pages alongside the standard 4KB size.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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

Dynatrace

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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. An average title has 2k shots, which means that we need to enumerate and process ~2M pairs. mp4, clip1.mp4,

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed. We are more tolerant to external risk factors because we don’t accumulate process debt or technical debt that makes it difficult for us to absorb risk. 4 Noonan, Peggy.

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Mitigating Corporate Financial Risks of Lean IT

The Agile Manager

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007.