The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Knowledge Management — Leveraging Institutional Data Tristan Reid, software engineer, shares experiences about the Knowledge Management project at Netflix, which seeks to leverage language modeling techniques and metadata from internal systems to improve the impact of the >100K memos that circulate within the company.

Data Engineering 259

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DZone

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

‘ Load Average ‘ is an age-old metric reported in various operating systems. However, that is not the case. To prove this theory, we conducted this simple case study. Load Average Study. It’s often assumed as a metric to indicate the CPU demand only. network read/write, file read/write, disk read/write).

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Operating System Open Source Java Metrics 199

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

It helps our DevOps team respond and resolve systems’ problems faster,” Smith said. With observability eliminating the siloed views of the system and establishing a common means to observe, measure, and act on insights, agencies can boost cloud operations, innovate faster, and improve results. Register to listen to the webinar.

Innovation 188

Innovation Speed Artificial Intelligence Government 188

Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Some good videos on the topic: Solving MongoDB Performance Riddles with Systems Thinking. Overnight to 60 Seconds: An IOT ETL Performance Case Study. Tips and Tricks for Query Performance: Let Us.explain() Them. Impact of Available IOPS On Your Database Performance. How MongoDB uses MongoDB at Scale.

Performance 200

Performance IoT Education Best Practices 200

High Scalability

JULY 25, 2018

SLO Engineering Case Studies. Introducing Non-Abstract Large System Design. What makes this book a tour de force are all the examples and case studies. In Chapter 3— SLO Engineering Case Studies —Evernote and The Home Depot tell the story of their journey into SRE. Implementing SLOs.

Google 186

Google Best Practices Games DevOps 186

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack – the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications – on any cloud. What is OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud platform. If there’s a problem, Dynatrace identifies it and provides in-depth root cause analysis.

Cloud 266

Cloud Infrastructure Operating System Monitoring 266

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ we spend the majority of our effort on writing code, expressing how the system achieves its goals.

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack – the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications – on any cloud. What is OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud platform. If there’s a problem, Dynatrace identifies it and provides in-depth root cause analysis.

Cloud 243

Cloud Infrastructure Operating System Monitoring 243

Percona Community

MAY 31, 2023

These meetings are an initiative of DoK meetups that spotlight DoK case studies. We start with a new project proposal, which is called: Distributed Systems Operator Interface (DSOI). In this blog post series, I will summarize the topics covered in each meeting. On May 23, very interesting topics were discussed on the agenda.

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Systems 57

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Safe software deployment, canary testing, and play-delay Software engineering readers of this blog are likely familiar with unit, integration and load testing, as well as other testing practices that aim to prevent bugs from reaching production systems. Rationale : This system is part of a semi-automated process for all client deployments.

Testing 239

Testing Software Software Metrics 239

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.81 No editing, spell checking, or comments.

Cache 105

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts.

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Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern. Its key emphasis is on data security and ensuring compliance, while still allowing users to maintain control over their database systems and data, even when they are hosted in the public cloud.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. These included a breakdown of CPU time into percentages for "usr" (user: applications) and "sys" (system: the kernel). Ahh, it makes sense now.

Cache 145

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 145

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements?

Performance 204

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 204

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Because it’s based on RHEL CoreOS, OpenShift can also update the underlying operating system the nodes are running on. OpenShift 3.0

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Case Study: Studio Edge Intro to Studio Ecosystem Netflix is producing original content at an accelerated pace. some teams used a pattern of building a materialized view of another service’s data for their specific system needs. We’re sharing our story to inspire others and encourage conversations around applicability elsewhere.

Architecture 359

Architecture Engineering Scalability Open Source 359

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Introduction to Chaos Architecture: Gaining from Learning Loops and System Weaknesses , by Russ Miles, ChaosIQ.io. In the talk linked here, Russ Miles asks the pointed question: "What happens when (not if ) something in your system breaks? Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem , by Tyler Treat, Real Kinetic.

Software Architecture 64

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m happy to finally report, it’s official: my thesis for Lund’s Human Factors and Systems Safety program has been published ! A mouthful of a title… but then, I suppose most thesis titles are. Astute followers may be wondering “Hey, wait a second, I thought you graduated last summer?

Programming 75

Programming Engineering Systems Software 75

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements?

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This opportunity is leveraged in the following case study. Case Study. There is a system that receives events on user visits from different internet sites. This system enables analysis to query a number of unique visitors for the specified date range and site. Case Study. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In one of my case studies, I’ll share how we used velcro and felt to have potential users explore the concept of a touch screen kiosk at a zoo exhibit. I’ve also been a part of studies where we created an ATM out of cardboard to simulate a user interacting with an ATM as part of the concept. Case Studies.

Design 98

Design Testing Education Processing 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement. You might be thinking you will never get the time to work on that POC.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The variable is named LOCAL_DEV and is used to check if we should be loading the data from S3 or from a local file system folder, like so: const data =. Choosing A New Serverless Database Technology At An Agency (Case Study) , Michael Rispoli. Jump to online workshops ?.

Lambda 118

Lambda Serverless Testing AWS 118

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This system variable enables control over optimizer behavior. Here, we will look through a case study with an example. Prior to MySQL 8.0.21, there was no way to override this behavior, even in cases where using some other optimization might be faster. Let’s first understand the problem.

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Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 100

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The admiral would no doubt admire what Jason Cox, Director of Platform & Systems Reliability, is doing at Disney.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

We show a case study that improves conversion rates by 1.8X. In Google Adwords, you can use phone call metrics as an early warning system to optimize text ad conversion performance. This article shows a case study of call only text ad optimization. PPC Optimization: Ad Text Position.

Google 59

Google Analytics Metrics Code 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. TypeScript In 50 Lessons Everything you need to know about TypeScript, its type system, generics and its benefits. 528 pages.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.81 No editing, spell checking, or comments.

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild. It's important to note that these are not considered public, so use at your own risk. processing = Duration from the time the request reaches the Storefront until processing of the request is complete. Definitely worth a read!

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. These included a breakdown of CPU time into percentages for "usr" (user: applications) and "sys" (system: the kernel).

Cache 52

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 52