The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

These media focused machine learning algorithms as well as other teams generate a lot of data from the media files, which we described in our previous blog , are stored as annotations in Marken. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. Marken Architecture Marken’s architecture diagram is as follows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives. For Visual Search We found that the model was influenced by the text present in the image. We added a step where such stills with text results would be filtered out and not present in the search.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. Below we present some thoughts on the why and one solution to address the issue. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 7, 2023

They can also use generative AI for cybersecurity, write prototype code, and implement complex software systems. This combined approach provides reliable answers for two key purposes,” wrote Dynatrace CTO Bernd Greifeneder in a May 2023 blog post. Visit our booth, number #2608, at Black Hat and c heck out our guide below.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

Though, it’s typically impossible to remediate all known security vulnerabilities so enterprises need a better solution for identifying those detected security vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk. Teams also use information about applications or system architecture for prioritization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. This Part 1 discusses Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while Part 2 presents the M/M/1 Queue. Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 7, 2019

As we scaled up to our present level of support for 14 million trips per day, the car in that … The post Migrating Functionality Between Large-scale Production Systems Seamlessly appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. The sheer volume of a modern enterprise’s data presents a challenge to those tasked with monitoring it, says Gartner.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s been a while since my last blog article on managing Dynatrace Managed at scale. During the implementation of the real-time visualization I presented in part three , I had an idea for another visualization; I wanted to visualize the number of detected problems globally, for a longer timeframe. Dynatrace news.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The systems we build are composed of many pieces. How should we slice up the system and divide responsibilities among teams in our organisation? In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. From mobile apps, to domains, to user journeys.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

In the future posts, we will do an architectural deep dive into the several components of Netflix Drive. To support such use cases, access control at the user workspace and project workspace granularity is extremely important for presenting a globally consistent view of pertinent data to these artists.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I wanted to present as much information as possible. This is where the consolidated API, which I presented in my last post , comes into play. Lightweight architecture. A quick look into the problem details of a few environments revealed an issue with a VMWare storage system that was impacting them all. js framework.

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These days, there’s been a lot of talk in the industry about setting up one’s database system on PostgreSQL. Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. On further examination you discover an abnormal system process has initiated.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly adept at identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. But they also need a better strategy to address these attacks if they have IT systems and live applications that are already compromised. – blog. DevOps vs. DevSecOps – blog.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Operations teams want to make sure the system doesn’t break. Dieter Landenahuf, a senior ACE Engineer at Dynatrace, built Jenkins pipelines for new microservice architectures by creating templates and copying, pasting, and modifying them slightly. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. For more complex cloud-native architectures, adding more services and applications leads to a massive increase in the volume of collected traces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

In this blog post, we present our project on Auto Remediation, which integrates the currently used rule-based classifier with an ML service and aims to automatically remediate failed jobs without human intervention. This presents the advantages of the integrated intelligence of the rule-based classifier and the ML service.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. A big factor in good Digital Performance is the back-end system that powers your digitally offered use-cases. Impressive results I have to say!

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Part 1 previously discussed Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while this post (Part 2) presents the M/M/1 Queue. In this Part 2, we conclude by presenting the M/M/1 Queue, which shows the answer to this third question is “no”: 3.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture. Staged Event-Driven Architecture. Several of the principles from this paper have made it into systems I have since built. blog comments powered by Disqus. Comments ().

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Furthermore, they add: Google’s core ranking systems look to reward content that provides a good page experience. Page Experience report There are also URL Groups and larger groupings of URL data: Our core ranking systems generally evaluate content on a page-specific basis […] However, we do have some site-wide assessments.

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