The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability.

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Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 18, 2019

We want to make sure that we release a high quality implementation, so it’s important to test the new patches on real code and not just small test cases. In this post, we’ll take a look at using C-Reduce , a multithreaded code bisection utility for C/C++, to help narrow done a reproducer for a real compiler bug.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Example: Chatbots, Alexa, Siri Another application of NLP is in the software testing domain where applications are tested in a plain natural language without any coding. Example: Testsigma ’s simple scriptless approach to testing. Check out more about NLP based test development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates.

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

The digital performance platform from Apica combines load testing and application performance monitoring for full transactional visibility from end to end. In Apica, I can write my own custom code, which I can’t do in the other tools. Now, with this change, we can test and run checks from anywhere across the globe.” For Nick M.,

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. In this post, we’ll discuss the best automation testing tools for the web and mobile.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

I hope you find it largely useful, occasionally illuminating, and maybe even a bit entertaining. This model “left the patient open” for indeterminate periods and led to delayed integration testing and release. In the meantime, because the draft FAQ might be of general public interest too, here is a copy of that material.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A typical day for a production employee could require using a handful of these applications to entertain our members across the world. We wanted a way to ensure that we can have a consistent user experience while also sharing as much code as possible. Do your research and don’t be afraid to ask around!

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. Consumers of GraphQL APIs can simply leverage the open-source GraphQL client of their preference.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications are packaged into a single, lightweight container with their dependencies, typically including the application’s code, customizations, libraries, and runtime environment. Making container deployment simpler One of Kubernetes’ primary use cases is deploying containerized apps.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

Code formatting. With semantic UI react libraries, developers can easily build superb and responsive web designs with syntactical and clear code. This way, developers can code quickly and efficiently by using reusable and faster coding methods. Additionally, you no longer have to code from scratch while using Tailwind UI.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. The list goes on and on. Website and Web Application Monitoring.

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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. That doesn’t happen in kernel code; the CPU does that on its own. asm goto is a GNU C extension that allows for assembly code to transfer control flow to a limited, known set of labels in C code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. Lower is better. Higher is better.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility. This begs a question: can we rent the capability needed to deliver disruptive tech?

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There are fewer examples and code libraries of the Ember framework. You are not allowed to reuse code in React.js other than for CSS and other JSX code, while Vue JS has inbuilt CSS-HTML code-reusability. It helps developers to simplify and structure the JavaScript code. Yet, they ultimately pick up the speed.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. building, testing, deployment, and maintenance), close to half (almost 49%) also reported being “mostly successful” with microservices—and more than 10% said their microservices development efforts were a “complete success.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

You see, being told a specific way to code—a specific technique or snippet—that can have some short term value. WebPageTest is such a fantastic tool for performance testing. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining. Using WebPageTest by Rick Viscomi , Andy Davies & Marcel Duran.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. While @media queries test whether a device is a printer or screen, and tests for height, width, or orientation, the @supports at-rule tests browsers’ features. A basic feature query tests both a property and a value.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. But if you’re still concerned about supporting a legacy browser, consider using a feature query to test for text-stroke support and provide an appropriate fallback for them. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by BLT and Steve Chorney. Vertigo by Saul Bass. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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