The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. Allows to annotate any entity.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Knowing who is responsible for specific areas and services is a vital skill that saves time and hassle. The dashboard shown in figure 4 below can be found in the publicly accessible Github Repository: [link] The dashboard serves as an example and likely needs to be adapted to your specific user needs. Knowledge is power.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. Key to that is understanding causal effects that connect changes we make in the product to indicators of member joy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we continue to grow here at Netflix, the needs of Revenue and Growth Engineering are rapidly evolving; and our tools must also evolve just as rapidly. We identified common design patterns and architectures scattered across various tools which were all duplicating efforts in some way or another.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These metrics can serve as a framework for other organizations looking to create their own automation models. Chief among these practices are platform engineering and GitOps, which are becoming increasingly central to maturing DevOps automation practices with more than half (54%) of organizations investing in this area. Download now!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Unfortunately, siloed tools created bottlenecks and provided limited visibility into areas they could improve. By detecting errors and bugs before they’re deployed to production, we save money on development and testing and better serve the citizens of our state.”

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 8, 2024

In this all-encompassing guide, we go deeply into the realm of the most reputable WordPress development businesses, providing helpful insights and suggestions to assist you in navigating toward the companies providing the foremost WordPress development services. It serves both large corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises.

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You may also like: Top Areas to Automate in AWS to Avoid Overpaying Cloud Bills. In this post, we are going to look at how Plume , survived a recent AZ outage without any application impact. Its platform powers millions of smart homes that generate over 27 Billion operations per day served by YugabyteDB. What's Plume?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Stephanie Lane , Wenjing Zheng , Mihir Tendulkar Source credit: Netflix Within the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. What does this title mean within a given company, or even within a given industry?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In what follows, we explore the benefits and challenges of digital transformation, the key drivers, and how organizations can ensure a successful digital transformation journey. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business. So, what is digital transformation?

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J. Paul Reed

JULY 17, 2023

But if we don’t agree on what the metaphor even means, it’s can’t serve as a “useful” model to address the challenges these types of projects face. But if we don’t agree on what the metaphor even means, it’s can’t serve as a “useful” model to address the challenges these types of projects face. And we shouldn’t be.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

At work, we regularly lean on each other for help based on our respective areas of expertise?—?I Outside of work, we share a love of good food and coffee, exchanging tips on making espresso. Julie] Chris and I have the same primary stakeholders (or engineering team that we support): Encoding Technologies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide. ‍‍CDN is Less Effective in Distributing Local ContentLocal content refers to data or information targeting a specific geographic area or region. In some cases, businesses may primarily serve a local audience, and their content might not need global distribution.Â

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. step in to simplify this task.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

We will look at each metric from a database performance perspective and discuss the common issues and associated solutions. The throughput is represented as a stacked area graph, where the height of each colored area provides the throughput of a group of commands. It further causes the slave to serve stale data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Images that represent titles on Netflix (what we at Netflix call “ artwork” ) have proven to be one of the most effective ways to help our members discover the content they love to watch. We thus need to have a rich and diverse set of artwork that is tailored for different parts of the Netflix experience (what we call product canvases ).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In what follows, we explore the value of an open platform for organizational innovation. The monolithic platform approaches of the early 2000s don’t serve organizations today. A growth strategy involves identifying core focus areas in which an organization excels and where it outperforms others.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling Netflix Certification Scott Bolter , Matthew Lehman , Akshay Garg ¹ At Netflix, we take the task of preserving the creative vision of our content all the way to a subscriber TV screen very seriously. To deal with these scaling challenges, we have opted to integrate API-enabled HDMI Signal Analyzers into our test infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Every month, we run millions of containers on thousands of machines on Titus, serving hundreds of internal applications and customers. However, we can automatically make better global decisions by detecting collocation opportunities based on actual usage information. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Intelligent Resource Allocation Resource allocation is another area where AI makes a significant impact in cloud computing. By providing ample data storage and processing power, cloud computing platforms serve as a fundamental enabler for the advancement of AI, offering scalability, adaptability, and cost-efficiency.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide. CDN is Less Effective in Distributing Local ContentLocal content refers to data or information targeting a specific geographic area or region. In some cases, businesses may primarily serve a local audience, and their content might not need global distribution.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We refer to this culture and practice as observability-driven DevOps and SRE automation. Should we keep it or roll it back? The automated SLO evaluation step serves as a “quality gate” to the production release process because a pass, warning, or failure result is built into the automated pipeline.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Below are some high level concerns we hear in the industry: When unexpected things happen (security threat or reliability issue) do we have the right signals and plan? Do we have the right monitoring to understand the health and validation of architecture decisions and delivering on business expectations? AWS 5-pillars.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

We opened the conversation with the Lead from a Financial Services Company explaining his role and how, regardless of the technical components, it’s all about putting the customer first and ensuring an excellent digital experience. How the last year changed impacted digital experience and the challenges that brought.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Competency Program serves to recognize and promote partners that attain deep technical certifications and have achieved proven customer success in specific use cases and technology domains. In 2017 we introduced the Dynatrace Partner Program , a three-tier program with sales and technical enablement.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we take a closer look at Prometheus metrics and how we can ingest this data into Dynatrace. To make it real, we also discuss a concrete use case with Kepler on Kubernetes. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Per Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware: “We see Kubernetes as a connective tissue, with VMware and Pivotal Platform in a unique position to bring dev and ops in tighter collaboration.”. We already took a first step towards supportability in becoming VMware PKS certified. Learning how to build autonomous operations .

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That means we, as tech workers, are in a position to make choices that contribute to reducing the environmental impact of our industry. Not only that, but as a well-connected industry, one that builds digital products often used by thousands or millions of people, we are also relatively well-positioned to influence the behavior of others.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

By Soheil Esmaeilzadeh , Negin Salajegheh , Amir Ziai , Jeff Boote Introduction Streaming services serve content to millions of users all over the world. We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Given that TTFB is synchronous by nature, we can expect to see this pattern for any site that has opportunities. I mean, why wouldn't we? With as much as we are moving compute and other capabilities (e.g., This can include a lot of different service layers, not just serving from cache. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. In cloud computing environments, infrastructure and services are maintained by the cloud vendor, allowing you to focus on how best to serve your customers. What is cloud migration?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms. Is that fair?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. We include Lighthouse scores and audits in our product for a good starting point. Long audible moan] We love to hate them. Third parties.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. It’s not the price of the services we purchase from them—they give those away for free. In the discussion following the talk, Simon noted that in the future, information would be so abundant that we would need machines to help us manage our attention.

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