The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

Data Engineering 259

Data Engineering Engineering Software Engineering Best Practices 259

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. A few avenues for elevating CI/CD pipelines are: Enhancing the extent of automated test coverage during the testing phase.

Engineering 222

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 222

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression testing comprises re-running the test cases of already stable features and finding out if the new code changes attributed to the new release led to any negative impacts on the existing functionalities. When is Regression Testing done? Regression tests should be performed just after the sanity testing is complete.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps. What DevOps processes can be automated?

DevOps 184

DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 184

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process. Key Takeaways Understanding the range of MySQL backup types and strategies is essential for optimal data security and efficiency, including full, incremental, differential, and partial backups, each with its advantages and use cases.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering 252

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 252

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Testlodge

MAY 26, 2021

To do this, the team should concentrate on risk-based testing aspects of the project that can reduce the possibility of failure by maintaining quality and stability. With this approach, organizations can quantify and mitigate risks, helping them to prioritize test cases more effectively. Overview of Risk-Based Testing.

Testing 105

Testing Software Engineering Best Practices Strategy 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to DevOps best practices, practitioners need ways to automate processes and make their day-to-day tasks more efficient. Support all the mechanisms and best practices of git-based workflows such as pull requests, merging, and approvals. What is monitoring as code?

Code 240

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 240

Apica

JUNE 22, 2022

Software testing is a huge domain, but it can be broadly categorized into two areas: manual testing and automated testing. Both manual and automated testing offer benefits and disadvantages. It’s worth knowing the difference, and when to use one or the other for best results. Automated Testing.

Software 52

Software Software Testing Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Not only will they get much more out of the tools they use daily, but they’ll also be able to deliver superior functionality, efficiency, and performance to your customers. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

AWS 205

AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 205

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. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering 173

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 173

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. All right, but what does this have to do with testing? Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base.

Testing 120

Testing Best Practices Code Design 120

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

With DevSecOps, organizations can combine security and observability with automation, transforming the SDLC into a quicker, more secure, software release process. DevSecOps automation promotes efficient processes and secure applications. Challenges of adopting DevSecOps. Traditional security tools are limited.

DevOps 203

DevOps Cloud Best Practices Open Source 203

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. Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By following key log analytics and log management best practices, teams can get more business value from their data. Challenges driving the need for log analytics and log management best practices As organizations undergo digital transformation and adopt more cloud computing techniques, data volume is proliferating.

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 239

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A broken SLO with no owner can take longer to remediate and is more likely to recur compared to an SLO with an owner and a well-defined remediation process. Establish the relevant service level indicators (SLIs) that need to be monitored, the process for remediating any issues, the relevant tools required, and timeframes for resolution.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

We will also discuss related configuration variables to consider that can impact these KPIs, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of your MySQL server’s performance and efficiency. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

As an industry best practice, we like to refer to Pivotal, the developers of Cloud Foundry. Labor costs and cycle times slowed down by manual process errors is the wrong answer. Give your developers more operational responsibility and build processes based on collaboration. Neotys, JMeter, or LoadRunner for load testing.

Innovation 186

Innovation Cloud DevOps Best Practices 186

Tech News Gather

MAY 16, 2023

With the increasing demand for on-demand services, it has become crucial to have a reliable and efficient app that meets the needs of your customers. However, many businesses make blunders during the selection process, which can lead to costly mistakes and unsatisfactory results.

Development 52

Development Best Practices Scalability Transportation 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Many healthcare practitioners had strong hunches and wild theories that were exciting to test against an empirical study. There was not enough scope to explore the distributed and large-scale computing challenges that usually come with big data processing. Furthermore, engineering velocity was often sacrificed owing to rigid processes.

Data Engineering 130

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Healthcare 130

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. Where continuous delivery fits into the development process. This process of frequent check-ins is called continuous integration (CI).

Best Practices 130

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. Today, the composable nature of code enables skilled IT teams to create and customize automated solutions capable of improving efficiency. Exploring IAC best practices. Test, test, test.

Best Practices 205

Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 205

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PHP is a language that has weathered the test of time and is still frequently used by web developers. This smooth connection with databases makes the custom PHP web development process more manageable and makes web applications work better overall. The Process of Hiring Web Developers in India!

Website 59

Website Development Open Source Database 59

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1).

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

What is Testing? Testing is the process of finding defects in a product/process to notify behaviour that isn’t acceptable for a user, to highlight how much of the product conforms to the expectations and what are the deviations. What is a Testing Framework? What is a Testing Framework?

Testing 40

Testing Best Practices Design Testing Tools 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance. In this way a user-space process defines a “fence” within which CFS operates for each container. So why mess with it?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Whether it is a production server, a test environment, or a developer’s workstation, this encapsulation makes it easier to deploy MongoDB instances in a variety of scenarios, making it more portable and scalable. about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections. docker-entrypoint." docker-entrypoint."

Scalability 61

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 61

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

Executing PITR requires restoring from the full backup and then applying binary log events in sequence up to the desired point in time, with advanced techniques and third-party tools available to optimize large dataset handling and automate the recovery process. Each caters to specific needs.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Tech News Gather

JULY 6, 2023

Introduction: Finding the perfect software and app development company in Dallas to cater to your technological requirements can be a daunting and intricate process. They offer a wide range of services, including app design, development, testing, and maintenance, ensuring a seamless app development journey.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Innovation Healthcare 52

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 2, 2018

Practical examples of how to integrate personal and tool-based feedback into your code review process. In one of my previous posts , I explained how strong feedback loops make strong software teams and how the most effective feedback loops are a mixture of daily best practices, automation, tools, and human intervention.

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Best Practices Architecture Metrics Code 62