The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In part one of this series , I talked through the common pain points software delivery teams face as they’re asked to support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives. Monaco also fits to the GitOps process and mindset – where one describes the desired state of the whole system using a declarative specification for each environment.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Are you aware that the scale of the app testing industry in 2019 was over USD$ 40 billion? Any organization recruits experienced testing agencies to comply with their specifications for software testing.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2022

(@YTSunnys) July 15, 2019 Distributed systems can “get frustrated” too. Failure on repeat Distributed software systems built with NServiceBus are pretty great about dealing with all kinds of failure. now tracks the number of consecutive failures and lets you take action to minimize its effect on the system.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

David Daly’s presentation at LTB 2020 , How to Waste Time and Money Test ing the Performance of a Software Product, is probably a good introduction [Video] — [Slides]. These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The MongoDB Podcast, Ep.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Experts from across the software architecture world came together in Berlin for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Brian Sletten takes a deep dive into the intersection of data, models, hardware, language, architecture, and machine learning systems. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Data Center Dynamics highlights a significant uptick in DBaaS adoption, growing from 40% to 45% between 2019 and 2020. Software developers are finding it easier to integrate with the DBaaS model, especially when developing mobile apps. You don’t need to worry about whether the security software you purchase is robust enough.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Not available.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019. The first fully operational Instrument Landing System (ILS) for planes was deployed in 1932. However, the widespread availability of powerful and low-cost software-defined radio platforms has altered the threat landscape.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Let them dogfood the software patch. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". We achieve 5.5

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.”

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High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. I started Amazon in my garage 24 years ago — drove packages to the post office myself. All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. For evidence, I refer you to the research that we recently published in which 62% of CISOs told us that container runtime environments have negatively impacted their ability to detect and manage software vulnerabilities.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%.

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Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

In one week’s time, thousands of IT and business professionals will descend on London for the latest iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 (June 25-27 – InterContinental O2, London, UK). Here are four tips to get the most out of DOES London 2019: Tip #1 – Develop a plan of attack. The countdown is on.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle. According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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High Scalability

AUGUST 16, 2023

If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. However, we found that CABs approved over 90% of the major changes they reviewed, and in some firms the CAB had not rejected a single change during 2019. Are the systems themselves secure?

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Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

Microsoft Message Queuing, better known by its nickname MSMQ, passed away peacefully in its hometown of Redmond, Washington on October 14, 2019, at the age of 22. Since it exists in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, MSMQ will continue to live on until at least 2029—and much longer assuming it isn't removed from future versions of Windows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? 2019 Top Databases Used. So, which databases are most popular in 2019? just three months ago in our 2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use report.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Before ordering tests and analysis similar to X-rays, MRIs, CTs, and EKGs into the specific disciplines of your software delivery organization (like quality, development, release, operations, and service), you need to understand the overall health of your product value streams. . Measure what matters in software delivery….

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DZone

JULY 25, 2019

It’s not just your code that writes out log messages, every other piece of software does, from the operating system all the way up the stack. Humio received $9M in Series A funding from Accel at the beginning of 2019 and is aiming to do just that. That does not mean that there is no room for a new startup to disrupt the market.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

Customers deserve to use a secure product, and Dynatrace has continuously upgraded its game in improving the security of its software. Bug bounties are commonly seen as the most effective and inexpensive way to identify vulnerabilities in live systems and products. Dynatrace news. Why does it matter to me as a customer?

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

DevOps has been around for about a decade now and has become a crucial automation process that enables organizations to deploy changes to a system in production quickly and efficiently. DevTestOps aims to ensure that the changes in the system will be deployed on production not only without delays but also without any compromise on quality.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Distributed tracing describes the act of following a transaction through all participating applications (tiers) and sub-systems, such as databases. All systems that support distributed tracing use some identifiers, the trace context, that is passed along with the transaction. Distributed tracing. W3C Trace Context.

Open Source 202

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 202

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? But this consideration needs to be deliberate.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. It automatically manages all the computing resources those processes require.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. 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 ).

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 75

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

DevOps and Continuous delivery: R evolution in the process, the way people and organizations delivering software work . Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native? Who manage s the networking aspects?

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

DevOps and Continuous delivery: R evolution in the process, the way people and organizations delivering software work . Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native? Who manage s the networking aspects?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. Logs, metrics, and traces make up the bulk of all telemetry data.

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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