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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience.

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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. Variances in sound can be extremely subtle, but the impact on how the viewer perceives a scene differently is often measurable.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

FSD has a sense of purpose, a planning capability, has real time agency and responds to its environment via an ego model, predicting the behavior of pedestrians and other road users, and is being tuned to drive in a very human way, so that other road users interact with it as a predicable normal driver.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

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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Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

This platform unlocks tremendous business value since product-oriented teams are now free to use the platform to experiment with different product offerings for our global audience, with little to no code changes required. This shape facilitates code reuse at the UI layer as well as the service layers. The world is constantly changing.