The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content. Choudhury, L. Krasula, S.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft After a long career working at the leading edge of technology, I retire from full time work on June 3rd 2022. I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. What Adrian Did Next?—?Retire Retire Moonrise?—?photo

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November

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DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

This became alarmingly clear when the massive series of DDoS attacks hit Dyn in 2016, and much of the websites and applications on the Internet became inaccessible to huge swaths of users across North America and Europe. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. In fact, these technologies have become so prevalent that anybody who may not know the full scope of the topic may be afraid to ask.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I've also used and helped develop many other technologies for debugging, primarily perf, Ftrace, eBPF (bcc and bpftrace), PMCs, MSRs, Intel vTune, and of course, [flame graphs] and [heat maps]. I hope my last two books, [Systems Performance 2nd Ed] and [BPF Performance Tools] serve Netflix well in my absence and everyone else who reads them.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. Dynatrace news. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry. What happened to OpenTracing and OpenCensus?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. It was a great privilege. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Support of new technologies minimizes the amount of manual work needed. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. Why this is a problem.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. RIM exited the handset business in 2016. They got a late start developing electronic vehicle technology.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. You need to know system well enough to make meaningful automation. – Cloud. Agile (this post).

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Last year I published [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], which I wrote from my home office with help from remote contributors. Making it Work While tech workers are well suited for remote work (savvy with communications technologies) there are benefits with office work, and I don't think remote work is for everyone. [Why

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Jake Archibald. ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1." Parting Thoughts.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2016

One is technology: materials science has changed what we pack and how we pack as gear is lighter and easier to compact. Clearly, to make a canoe camping trip in 2016, my method needed to change. * * * Method is the codification of experience into rules, guidelines, policy, principles, behaviors, norms and so forth. They will be wet."

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

It became very exciting to learn about the new technology and how we would expand the product I know and love. By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. Without going into details, you boot your laptop or server and don’t give a thought about the binary format(s) of the operation system.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. All Systems Red by Martha Wells 4 ⁄ 5. Cennydd explores the ethical considerations of technology in a way that felt fresh even with all the books I’ve been reading on the topic. What I Read in 2016.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Uber : Since 2016, Uber has added several new lines of business to its platform, including Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and Jump Bikes. And now we have some idea what's driving unequal growth in productivity of top-performing firms -- it's how they build and use *their own, proprietary software and other IT/technology.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Generally speaking, we can also run the top command on any server to which we have shell access.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For many years, this effect has dominated the frontend technology market. 1] These technologies were initially pitched on the back of "better user experiences" , but have utterly failed to deliver on that promise outside of the high-management-maturity organisations in which they were born.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Early implementations of NoOps were just ‘lift and shift’ efforts that replicated existing systems to the cloud. AIOps , a term coined by Gartner in 2016, combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. Evolution of NoOps.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

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