The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The most important value of our Hack Days is that they support a culture of innovation. 2018 Netflix Hack Day? 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November 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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In a 2018 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey of 5,000 enterprises , 40% of enterprises (5,000+ employees) said they were running Kubernetes in production and 58% of all respondents were using it in production. But on the other hand, Kubernetes has also introduced new layers of complexity.

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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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 27, 2019

At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Many customers are modernizing their existing applications to become more agile and innovate faster. New architectural patterns.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

In late 2018, Dynatrace introduced the OneAgent Operator for ease of activation on Kubernetes. Our teams are more autonomous, which means they can deliver innovation faster to their customers.” Observability should be as cloud-native as Kubernetes itself. ” Example Dynatrace problem ticket.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. On that day, they had over 80 million pageviews and 18.8

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

I spend a lot of time talking to our customers and leaders at Amazon about innovation. In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. “The Unbreakable Delivery Pipeline” automates the delivery and operational tasks to increase the delivery frequency and reduce lead time, while ensuring never releasing breaking changes in production.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 1, 2018

We are now in year two, heading into the final stretch for 2018 and I thought I would give everyone an update. On July 2, the eight 2018 Alexa Prize teams, from universities around the world, entered the semifinals phase of the competition.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly. French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Usually, competition is a good thing for end-users since it breeds innovation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. In August 2018, Netflix’s Video Algorithms team and Intel’s Visual Cloud team decided to join forces on SVT-AV1 development. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Plus another AWS GovCloud (US) Region in the United States is coming online by the end of 2018. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018. ” Usually, competition is a good thing for end-users since it breeds innovation. This was based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Usually, competition is a good thing for end-users since it breeds innovation.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

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. ” In those early years, the company reflected not only an innovative spirit but also a spirit of community-mindedness. Since then, the stock price has increased more than 600%.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I love seeing real innovation in the OS/VMM space, and a willingness to toss away legacy in order to vastly simplify the problem space. Here you go: With over 125 million players, and supporting over 8 million *concurrent gaming sessions*, we are really happy to learn that #Fortnite is running #Akka under the hood!

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Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

We’ve known for many years the high levels of waste in software work; a 2018 Pendo report found that 80% of features are rarely or never used (equating to $29.5 And is it actually improving how we operate and innovate? billion a year in assets being squandered).

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, they treat continuous improvement and digital innovation like interest, recognizing that it’s a compounding game. However, if you accelerate your software delivery via these investments, even in small increments, those benefits compound over time and lead to the large chasm between innovative companies and others (Chart 2b).

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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. Measuring the Flow of Value . Click cover to order a copy. Subscribe now.-.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

Digital Innovation is Here to Stay . While a return to safe physical interaction in the future may seem desirable for first-class treatment and support, some of the most impactful digital innovations will become permanent fixtures. “I

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

As we noted last year, the release of Java 11 in September 2018 brought a raft of new features, including many that give the release a significant, clear advantage for using containers. “Originally, we were hoping async/await syntax could be part of the 2018 edition of Rust, but it took longer to get things right.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

The most important value of hack days is that they support a culture of innovation. By Abi Seshadri and Rachel Rivera You can also check out highlights from our past events: November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, they treat continuous improvement and digital innovation like interest, recognizing that it’s a compounding game. However, if you accelerate your software delivery via these investments, even in small increments, those benefits compound over time and lead to the large chasm between innovative companies and others (Chart 2b).

Innovation 52

Innovation Cloud Government Efficiency 52

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. 264, AV1, etc.).

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Well, for SQLBits 2018, it is not just me. If anything just come to see me explain the architecture which is an amazing innovative piece of software. I have the blessed opportunity to speak at many customer events. Experience SQL Server on Linux and Containers – Bob Ward. Shamless blost post author plug.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. Rasing the level of abstraction using Domain Specific Languages makes it easier for programmers and architects to innovate. Hungry for more?

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. Pioneered by Netflix, chaos engineering represents a great example of continuing innovation in software engineering practices. How will you handle it?"

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. According to Statista , the growth of the companies in 2018 using AI technology has been immense across the globe.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

ACM is the culmination of our best practices and learning that we share every day with our customers to help them automate their enterprise, innovate faster, and deliver better business ROI. Market disruptions spark innovation and radical change. Embracing disruption and sparking innovation — the new way.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. Dynatrace full stack Red Hat OpenShift observability Dynatrace unifies platform engineering and application teams on a single platform, enhancing software quality and operational efficiency to drive innovation.

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