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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

By Jose Fernandez , Ed Barker , Hank Jacobs Introduction In November 2022, we introduced a brand new tier —  Basic with ads. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. surpassed $387 billion in 2022, more than double the figure of three years earlier. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019.

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Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Dynatrace

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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AI techniques enhance and accelerate exploratory data analytics

Dynatrace

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022.

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Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Dynatrace

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022. Logs on Grail, included in the 2022 release, enables an endless variety of log-based use cases.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. The Core Web Vitals Metrics Generally, I approve of the Core Web Vitals metrics themselves ( Largest Contentful Paint , First Input Delay , Cumulative Layout Shift , and the nascent Interaction to Next Paint ).