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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. performance. performance.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. Performance has always mattered. SNMP managed the costs of network links well, but not the sources of those costs (i.e., Dynatrace news.

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IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies

Dynatrace

IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies For many organizations, the pandemic was a crash course in IT modernization as agencies scrambled to meet the community’s needs as details unfolded. It discovers the root cause of issues, so the team may resolve them before they impact constituents.