The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount. Let’s dive in!

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Inside, you will learn: Why you should upgrade MongoDB Staying with outdated MongoDB versions can expose you to critical security vulnerabilities, suboptimal performance, and missed opportunities for efficiency. Introduction of clustered collections for optimized analytical queries. In MongoDB 6.x:

Best Practices 91

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 91

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. Selecting the right tool plays an important role in managing your strategy correctly while ensuring optimal performance across all clusters or singularly monitored redistributions.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With unified observability and security, organizations can protect their data and avoid tool sprawl with a single platform that delivers AI-driven analytics and intelligent automation. Grail handles data storage, data management, and processes data at massive speed, scale, and cost efficiency,” Singh said.

Analytics 181

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Engineering Storage 181

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Competitive advantage. Enhanced business operations.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Education 175

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In 2021, nearly 180 million Americans shopped online and in person during the Black Friday period, according to a report by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. The company did a postmortem on its monitoring strategy and realized it came up short.

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Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 191

Tech News Gather

JULY 17, 2023

Businesses can be the first to serve untapped markets rather than depending on tried-and-true but low-return customer acquisition strategies. P2P lending apps use algorithms and data analytics to evaluate interest rates and the creditworthiness of borrowers. For what reasons should companies invest in building e-commerce apps?

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FinTech Development IoT Mobile 40

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Problem Management. Postmortems.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

What must be considered when presenting the images on different viewports? Provisional strategies for image delivery. Before delving into them, let’s talk about the multiple options for presenting images so that you can devise a strategy on how and when to deliver and render yours. Strategy for dynamic images.

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Block cleaning methods may purge excessively large blocks (as these are likely to be the result of common stop-word tokens and hence less useful for matching) and filter the blocks a given description is present in – for example by removing the description from the largest $r%$ of the blocks it appears in.

Big Data 83

Big Data Open Source Processing Analytics 83

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. In total, the clusters store a few exabytes of data and are primarily responsible for all of the batch analytics at Microsoft. VLDB’19. Approximate query support.

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2020

Let’s understand in the article, the automation testing skills required to be an efficient and successful automation tester in the software testing industry. Focus on analytical thinking : For an automation tester, an instinct for analytics and logical application of concepts is important.

Testing Tools 61

Testing Tools Programming Testing DevOps 61

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

” But, he continues, ” Today’s environments present a completely different picture. By doing so, they can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver better customer experiences. Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics provides a unified and comprehensive log management solution. during 2021–2026.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

The foundation of this flexibility is the Dynatrace Operator ¹ and its new Cloud Native Full Stack injection deployment strategy. This gives us unified analytics views of node resources together with pod-level metrics such as container CPU throttling by node, which makes problem correlation much easier to analyze.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 316

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost-intensive and not always fruitful, which makes having an excellent DX more crucial than ever. Having this real-time outlook enables your business to operate with efficiency by proactively identifying and altering for both hard and soft failures.

Mobile 217

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 217

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

If you store each of the keys as columns, it will result in frequent DML operations – this can be difficult when your data set is large - for example, event tracking, analytics, tags, etc. Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column.

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Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This includes building websites, hosting websites, managing campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and much more. This high rate of growth, coupled with the current scale and diversity of offerings presents a huge challenge when setting out to improve performance. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management. Continuous visibility throughout the DevSecOps lifecycle.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 290

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. Refactoring allows developers to gradually and strategically improve to the existing codebase, without changing its presentation or core functionality. Project Wallace also offers a complete paid solution for CSS codebase analytics.

Best Practices 145

Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

most of them are structured as data scientist manuals focusing on algorithms and methodologies and assume that human decisions play a central role in transforming analytical findings into business actions. This framework will later be used to describe analytical problems in a more uniform way.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Dynatrace news. We can see which SQLs got executed against which database.

AWS 125

AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 125

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Presenting The Case For Sustainability. Being able to present a business case, and demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the costs, will help justify focusing resources in the area of sustainability.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. Planning, planning, planning.

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