The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Definition. Design Validation.

Design 94

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 94

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Upon gathering these metrics, engineers may then demonstrate how the implementation of strong, enterprise-wide SRE practices can help reduce toil, employee burnout, operational expenses, and the number of unaccomplished SLOs. We’ll see lots of different types of impact versus one definitive impact [from generative AI],” she said.

Best Practices 197

Best Practices Engineering DevOps Software Engineering 197

Tasktop

JUNE 28, 2022

Nowadays, frameworks like SAFe ® recommend that you use Flow Metrics to measure and improve efficiency, velocity, and predictability. If you like story points and want to keep story points around, the question becomes, “when is it appropriate to rely on story points, and when should we use Flow Metrics?” Definitions.

Metrics 52

Metrics Traffic Efficiency Design 52

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Metrics abstract you away from all details.

Software 245

Software Software Code Energy 245

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. This design enables us to reuse and share data as much as possible. This article gives an overview of the system.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Application version adoption over time for a staged rollout This chart represents a counter metric, which exhibits version adoption over the duration of a staged rollout. Typically, teams time-shift one metric over the other to visually detect metric deviations, but time can still be a confounder.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. How do [developers] make the things that are most likely to break, easily accessible?” “The three pillars of observability at the time were metrics, logs, and traces,” Wilson said.

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 166

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. Combined, these two effects reduce the risk of Type-S and Type-M errors.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the start button. Getting Data with the Metrics Repo 2. Not at Netflix.

Metrics 215

Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. Create a baseline of performance metrics and alert administrators when performance varies.

Artificial Intelligence 236

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 236

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

Infrastructure 219

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Which got me thinking, what if we could send our own DIY kit for our Flow Metrics tool— Tasktop Viz —to our Fortune 500 customers across major industries such as automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and finance? . Typically, you will require a: Product Manager: Manages the build and maintenance of the value stream metrics product.

Metrics 52

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. How do you, as a data scientist, fill in the pieces between product, engineering, and design?

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Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Which got me thinking, what if we could send our own DIY kit for our Flow Metrics tool— Tasktop Viz —to our Fortune 500 customers across major industries such as automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and finance? . Typically, you will require a: Product Manager: Manages the build and maintenance of the value stream metrics product.

Metrics 40

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Additionally, they enable the implementation of sophisticated business logic within the database, streamlining repetitive tasks and enhancing overall efficiency. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed. Well-designed indexes can significantly improve query performance within triggers.

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. As a newly promoted “Head of Performance,” that’s definitely what you want!

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Cache Website Energy Servers 115

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Because the scope of these solutions is limited by their nature, they also tend to create silos in which teams can disagree on service-level objectives (SLOs) and metrics.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 2, 2018

The aforementioned research shows that the most valued capabilities of code quality tools are finding security vulnerabilities, identifying violations of software design guidelines, and providing metrics on test coverage. When teams have common standards, metrics, and techniques, they are more productive. Autonomous teams.

Best Practices 62

Best Practices Architecture Metrics Code 62

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. And the reason I think it’s important is that one, I think we’re always more efficient, again, when we understand what our counterparts are doing. Attainable DevOps.

DevOps 84

DevOps Metrics Systems Design 84

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. And if the query processes 100 million rows, that’s definitely not trivial! Using the aforementioned table definitions, the following metrics were generated with the runtime parameter max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 4. it does well.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. It is much more than just IT support. Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Serve In Next-generation (Next-gen) Formats, Encode Efficiently. The change of design.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In evaluating our exposure metric, we find unintended memorization to be both commonplace and hard to prevent. Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models? So computing the perplexity of every single member of a real random space to give a ranking isn’t going to feasible (or at the very least, not very efficient).

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

We focus on a definition that draws from the following two principles: (1) the value of temporal locality, by classifying as cold a memory page that has not been accessed beyond a threshold of T seconds; (2) a proxy for the application effect of far memory, by measuring the rate of accesses to cold memory pages, called promotion rate.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. I definitely have some assets that are doing nothing but wasting time and space. Ideally, that’s something you or a designer would do when initially making the assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So we really can’t talk about automating any significant task without seeing it as a non-trivial data integration project: matching IDs, reconciling slightly different definitions of database columns, de-duping, named entity recognition , all of that fun stuff. As a result, your relationship to many important financial metrics changes.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

task definition). Amazon ECS’ architecture is designed to share the state of the cluster and allow customers to run as many varieties of schedulers (e.g., Hailo decided it wanted to schedule containers based on service priority and other runtime metrics atop an elastic resource pool.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Common components of DR and HA architectures By definition, there are differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Likewise, establishing clear retention policies for both backups and archives is crucial to balancing data recovery needs with data management efficiency and compliance requirements.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

That’s a great feature, and while I’ve seen developers aim for 100% coverage, I wouldn’t rely on that metric alone. Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. So, with that, let’s turn our attention to the different types of testing.

Testing 95

Testing Performance Testing Website Code 95

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145