The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? 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 bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Because of its adaptability, Prometheus has become an essential tool for observability engineering.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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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. Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams. SRE focuses on automation.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service. In other words, SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Technology and operations teams work to ensure that applications and digital systems work seamlessly and securely. They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. Through predictive analytics, SREs and DevOps engineers can accurately forecast resource needs based on historical data.

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DZone

JULY 3, 2019

Mule Enterprise Edition supports scalable clustering to provide high availability (HA) for applications. High availability is essential for any organizations interested in protecting their business against the risk of a system outage, loss of transactional data, incomplete data, or message processing errors. What Is Clustering?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Our engineering team and Creative Technologies sound expert joined forces to quickly solve the issue, but a larger conversation about higher quality audio continued. We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. We began streaming 5.1

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. A Smashing Guide To The World Of Search Engine Optimization. Frederick O’Brien. 2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. Like, literally.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s why many organizations are turning to generative AI—which uses its training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries—and platform engineering to create new efficiencies and opportunities for innovation. 6: Platform engineering becomes mission-critical.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

So, those of you limited to Windows-only systems can now also enjoy all the goodness of having HTTP monitors deliver API testing right to your door! Support for Windows-based ActiveGates is now available with ActiveGate version 1.165. Internal application availability monitoring. Why use synthetic HTTP monitors?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Redis™, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base. The demand for Redis™ is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Clair, principal security solutions engineer, discussed how organizations can take a more proactive approach to threat detection and incident resolution. This allows them to react accordingly and return the system to a secure state. Clair determined what log data was available to her. During their breakout session, Byrne and St.

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DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems. Service level objectives (SLOs) are the goals set for the availability expected out of a system.

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Uber Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Uber Engineering’s Schemaless storage system powers some of the biggest services at Uber, such as Mezzanine. Schemaless is a scalable and highly available datastore on top of MySQL ¹ clusters.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Flexible pricing models that offer discounts based on commitment or availability can greatly reduce cloud waste. Suboptimal architecture design.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Infrastructure health The underlying infrastructure’s health directly impacts application availability and performance. This is the problem domain on which Keptn can help Platform Engineers provide a solution and guard rails for teams to deploy software that works perfectly.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. As a result, they fail to deliver a truly seamless and customer-centric experience that integrates our digital systems into our analog lives.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Keeping ownership teams and their properties up to date is essential, as is having the right contact information available when needed. Import teams It is necessary to get ownership team information into the system and keep it updated. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information. Contact us to schedule a demo.

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DZone

MAY 30, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a critical discipline that focuses on ensuring modern systems and applications' continuous availability and performance.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. The CubeSat form-factor limits what can be packed into the device and how much power is available.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. It removes much of the guesswork of untangling complex system issues and establishes with certainty why a problem occurred. That’s where causal AI can help. Causal AI is particularly effective in observability. Timeliness.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Dynatrace provides end-to-end observability of AI applications As AI systems grow in complexity, a holistic approach to the observability of AI-powered applications becomes even more crucial.

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