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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. To measure causal effects we rely heavily on AB testing , but we also leverage quasi-experimentation in cases where AB testing is limited.

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Native Frame Rate Playback

The Netflix TechBlog

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. Watch out for an upcoming article going into further details of this solution.

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Netflix Public Bug Bounty, 1 year later

The Netflix TechBlog

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. The system had significant issues that we were grateful to hear about so we could retire the system.

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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. Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. We needed to support these choices better.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. The list goes on and on.