Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. How did we get here?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount. . /* Restricted version used during very early boot */. Recent work. void __init early_fixup_exception ( struct pt_regs * regs , int trapnr ). {.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. People rarely create them manually.

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