The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The most important value of our Hack Days is that they support a culture of innovation. The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! We know even the silliest idea can spur something more. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The most important value of our Hack Days is that they support a culture of innovation. The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! We know even the silliest idea can spur something more. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Even small amounts of technical debt compound as new code branches from old, further embedding the shortcomings into the system. At some point the debt reaches a tipping point where the high costs of maintenance prevent innovation. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? Why is cloud application security so critical?

Cloud 177

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 177

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Voice makes access to digital services far more inclusive than traditional screen-based interaction, for example, an aging population may be much more comfortable interacting with voice-based systems than through tablets or keyboards. However, it is still Day One, and a lot of innovation is underway in this world.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s not much of a surprise, then, that I read more books in 2017 than I have since I started keeping track back in 2009. I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. The book sets out to do the same thing and does a pretty good job.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%. They are also migrating 700 government websites, with more than 50 TB of data, onto AWS, helping them to meet their goal of decommissioning their hosting platform by the end of 2017.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) . The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. .

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. Instead, the business may design and redesign systems as customer expectations change and business objectives evolve. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". However, some seem to have missed Davidson's point regarding the importance of resources and rely almost entirely on waits to present a picture of query performance and system health.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

At the recent Forrester Technology & Innovation Global Summit , René Te-Strote—Senior Project Lead of the BMW IT Group—spoke with our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten, about BMW’s ongoing transformation in the Age of Software. Value Stream Networks. Measuring the Flow of Value .

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Vendors have a powerful incentive to "not break the web " Since cache sizes will be limited (more on that in a second), the predictable outcome will be slower library innovation. Shared caches must make sense within this value system. Introducing these incentives would be an obvious error for a team building a platform.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? As Tyler Akiadu, from Google, explained in his Strata NY 2017 presentation, “ Foundations of streaming SQL ”: “Streams are the in-motion form of data, both bounded and unbounded.” Clean and reprocess it? At least once?

Architecture 80

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

When I joined Tasktop back in October of 2017, Tasktop was doing really well. This is when the production capital of innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. Fate or Free Will . I’m proud our technology makes the hardest things feel simple.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. IoT tracking systems. Use in traffic systems: Using IoT technology, delivery, traffic or transportation tracking, asset tracking, inventory control, customer management, and individual order tracking can be more cost-effective with the right tracking system.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Not necessarily: Java-related searches increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 134

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace. These include your overall server CPU capacity, your single-threaded CPU performance, your memory density and capacity, your total I/O capacity, and your SQL Server 2017/2019 license costs.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Hemnet started using AWS more than three years ago and has now moved all of their applications and services to AWS to innovate faster and save IT costs. Public sector. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The story picks up in 2017, two years after the release of PWAs and Push Notifications in Chrome. This only worked on Samsung phones where Suwon's engineers could count on device services and system keys not available elsewhere. Without getting into the weeds, suffice to say many non-Chrome browsers requested access.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources). those running the 2017 SDK?—?also The SNG files have a relatively large download size at ~1.5MB each.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Their design tools database features tools for everything from UI design and prototyping, to user flow and handoff, design systems and versioning. To help us do better, UX Planet published a four-part article series on streamlining the checkout experience back in 2017 which is still gold for everyone working on a checkout flow today.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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