The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Batch Pensive Batch Pensive Architecture Batch workflows in the data platform run using a Scheduler service that launches containers on the Netflix container management platform called Titus to run workflow steps. One example where it can dramatically help is Spark jobs, where memory tuning is a significant challenge.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In his book “ Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics ”, he cites example after example of how human behavior does not follow economic expectations based on rational behavior, resulting in flawed economic models . I had a professor in grad school who used to joke that all architecture is reinvented every 5 years.

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Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. An Example. What is Configuration Testing?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Dynatrace news. Chaos engineers ask why.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. Some common examples include: A request through API Gateway or Amplify. For such functions, organizations will be better off using an EC2 instance or their own hardware to interact with data.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. A History of Architecture Support for Security. The figure above provides a timeline of architectural support for practical defenses, as found in commercial products.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In this post, we explain these features and how we rely on award-winning standard formats and open source software to enable them. For example, detecting frame boundaries in an AV1 video stream requires being able to parse so-called Open Bitstream Units (OBU) and identifying Temporal Delimiters OBU. Figure 1?—?Simplified

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System (Nitro System), the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. You will need to invent on their behalf.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data. Here are some examples: In the e-commerce sector, websites such as Amazon and Flipkart employ DBMS to oversee extensive customer databases, monitor sales orders, track returns, and manage faulty products.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a nice building with good architecture! What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. Netflix headquarters circa 2014. New Netflix Buildings in Los Gatos.

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Testlodge

MARCH 21, 2023

White box testing examines the system’s internal structure and architecture. White box testing examines the system’s internal structure and architecture. The internal structure can mean code, architecture, integrations like APIs or other third-party systems, or any other type of backend knowledge.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. For example, consider a database system that is distributed across a data center, or even across data centers. These two, yet again, are each useful in different circumstances.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here is an example from the paper that will now be legal: template <typename. Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. T> constexpr auto first_plus_last(T. values) -> T.[0] [0] { return T.[0](values.[0]

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. These are all-in bets taken and lost, two examples of big bets that resulted in big routs.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le). The scope of the automatic workload instrumentation is user configurable, for example, by namespace.

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Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

Continuous Testing is the testing strategy to fast-track the testing required for achieving rapid software development using Agile and DevOps methodologies. Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the other – without any human intervention. What is Continuous Testing?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In today's era of global digitalization there are many examples that show that IT does matter. These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas.

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Example (using the employee sample DB ): Suppose we have the following schema: db1 employees> show create table employeesG 1. Example: Creating four simple tables to store strings but using different data types: db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb1 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text char(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions. So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This has allowed for more research, which has resulted in reaching the "critical mass" in knowledge that is needed to kick off an exponential growth in the development of new algorithms and architectures. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

The need to measure outcomes and business value for software development, and the shift from Project to Product , require the deployment of a scalable and turnkey VSM solution. Bottlenecks from internal processes and a dated software architecture severely affected morale. Culture was blamed for the lack of results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. Twitter Heron is another good example of this approach. optimised container networking and security.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. It does so by creating repeatable, automated software-driven processes.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). there cannot be high availability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications. Increased availability.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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