The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. In 2017, I attended the Women in Big Data conference at Netflix and met with several amazing women in data engineering, including our VP.

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 120

Database Design Cloud Storage 120

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 213

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 213

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

USENIX's SREcon conference is the best venue for learning the latest in systems engineering (not just site reliability engineering) and if you have useful production stories and takeaways to share -- especially if you are in the Asia/Pacific region -- please consider submitting a talk proposal to [SREcon APAC 2023].

Government 113

Government Programming Engineering Google 113

Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. He knew that to sell his clients’ products, his designs needed to resonate with Black audiences, by showing images they related to and language which was familiar to them.

Design 97

Design Media C++ Availability 97

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

The machine-learning approach is designed to find patterns and correlations in data. For more coverage of Dynatrace Perform 2022, check out our Dynatrace Perform 2022 conference coverage guide Themes to watch at Dynatrace’s annual conference. Machine learning-driven AIOps.

Cloud 178

Cloud DevOps Architecture Technology 178

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

With our annual user conference, Dynatrace Perform 2024 rapidly approaching on January 29 through February 1, 2024, our teams, partners, and customers are buzzing with excitement and anticipation.

Cloud 212

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Performance AWS 212

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

InfoQ

APRIL 17, 2024

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.

Architecture 57

Architecture Technology Technology Systems 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

are technologically very different, Python and JMX extensions designed for Extension Framework 1.0 are technologically very different; Python and JMX extensions designed for the Extension Framework 1.0 We’ve added Python support to Extensions 2.0, However, since Extension Framework versions 1.0 to the Extension Framework 2.0,

Technology 247

Technology Technology Scalability Availability 247

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

The weeklong conference brought speakers from across the content, product, and member experience teams to learn about methodological developments and applications in estimating causal effects. However, when the topic of holdback tests is raised, it can seem too complicated in terms of experimental design and/or engineering costs.

Entertainment 218

Entertainment Best Practices Innovation Testing 218

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the Dynatrace Innovate conference in Barcelona, Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace chief technology officer, discussed key examples of how the Dynatrace observability platform delivers value well beyond traditional monitoring. These are both wins—business and technical.”

Innovation 198

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 198

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

With the theme “Observability Unleashed,” this conference focused on end-to-end, full-stack observability powered by the Dynatrace unified intelligence platform. The new portal is designed to make it easier for our partners to access the tools they need to work more efficiently to help joint customers achieve their business goals.

Programming 181

Programming Analytics Innovation Best Practices 181

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Vitality’s platform is designed to let customers take control of their own wellness by creating insurance and investment frameworks that best meet their needs. For more coverage of Dynatrace Perform 2022, check out our Dynatrace Perform 2022 conference coverage guide Themes to watch at Dynatrace’s annual conference.

Mobile 167

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 167

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Nowadays I always include names when known.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

To combat these challenges, organizations need an IT culture that addresses security resilience from the outset—also known as security by design —which, in turn, supports business resilience. Not surprisingly, the theme of Infosec Europe 2022 Conference is “Stronger together,” putting an emphasis on IT collaboration.

Open Source 222

Open Source DevOps Java Innovation 222

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. .” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? The goal was to promote collaboration between development and operations teams rather than keeping them siloed.

DevOps 191

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 191

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

The healthcare industry is embracing cloud technology to improve the efficiency, quality, and security of patient care, and this year’s HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla., As healthcare providers consider AIOps solutions, they should evaluate whether traditional AIOps approaches designed for correlation can enable long-term success.

Healthcare 228

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 228

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. And how can they take advantage of AI without incurring skyrocketing costs to store, manage, and query data?

Performance 186

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 186

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. The benefits and challenges of boundaries are beginning to influence how we the future of DevOps.

DevOps 162

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 162

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure 65

Azure Availability Design Scalability 65

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Improve web performance by improving your design process… it needs to be iterative, mindful, principled and visual. I start out by suggesting that before a project is launched the team must sit down and design the process that they are going to use to reach a solution.

Design 45

Design Performance Metrics Processing 45

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

USENIX's SREcon conference is the best venue for learning the latest in systems engineering (not just site reliability engineering) and if you have useful production stories and takeaways to share -- especially if you are in the Asia/Pacific region -- please consider submitting a talk proposal to SREcon APAC 2023.

Government 52

Government Programming Engineering Google 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. He is known for speaking at conferences such as Velocity and Akamai Tech Day, as well as various meetups for performance-minded developers. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, their burgeoning multicloud environments offer many benefits, such as modular app design, dynamic app scalability, and faster time to market. AIOps solution.

Artificial Intelligence 180

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 180

Speed Curve

AUGUST 17, 2020

I’ve known Mark for 20 years, since he started lecturing in design here in New Zealand. Our careers have overlapped at various points, it’s the nature of a small country with an even smaller web design industry. It’s an application for home brewers that helps them quickly design and print labels for their beer.

Small Business 102

Small Business Design Software Software 102

High Scalability

MAY 18, 2021

This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

High Scalability

APRIL 7, 2021

This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In February, we completed C++20, which is the first release of Standard C++ that includes every feature that Bjarne Stroustrup envisioned for C++’s evolution in his 1994 book The Design and Evolution of C++ (aka D&E) , including concepts, coroutines, modules, and more, except only for one minor feature (unified function call syntax).

C++ 76

C++ Virtualization Design Code 76

All Things Distributed

MARCH 30, 2017

In the early nineties, Mendel Rosenblum and John Ousterhout had made a major breakthrough in the design of file systems with " The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System." 1993, In Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1993 Conference Proceedings on USENIX Winter 1993 Conference Proceedings (USENIX'93).

Systems 93

Systems AWS Design Technology 93

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 3, 2006

The programs for 2 conferences with mainly operating and distributed systems contributions are online now: 1st EuroSys Conference, April 18-21, 2006, Leuven, Belgium 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI’06), May 8-10, 2006, San Jose, CA With 58 papers between the two conferences the systems research field appears to (..)

Systems 60

Systems Programming Network Design 60

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals].

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. I feel there is a lot of potential to improve how we design bounded contexts and this is just the starting point. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

Design 72

Design Strategy Innovation Processing 72

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

When you look at the multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) design that PostgreSQL uses and compare it to the designs of other databases, it looks chaotic. There are meetups, conferences, mailing lists, slack channels, and tutorials galore for both.

Database 119

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 119

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

advisor (and soon-to-be faculty colleague) Philip Guo and I are presenting a research paper at the International Computing Education Research conference (ICER) on this very topic. ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER), August 2023. I’m Sam Lau from UC San Diego, and my Ph.D. slang) from their countries.

Programming 61

Programming Education Code Strategy 61