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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. The top graph shows both the audio and video bitrate, along with the available network throughput.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

This platform unlocks tremendous business value since product-oriented teams are now free to use the platform to experiment with different product offerings for our global audience, with little to no code changes required. This means we need to distinguish between availability of SKUs and eligibility for SKUs.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. An out-of-band mechanism (tcp socket) is used to advertise the available wire protocol versions when connecting to a remote machine, and the lowest common denominator will be used. Enter Google! The little engine that could.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design

Smashing Magazine

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. Processing The Color Palette.

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