The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, All these definitions are distinct and important. Containment: Implements actions to safeguard affected systems, resolves incidents quickly and escalates an event to other teams when necessary. This does not include lag time in the alert system.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is the definition of this model: ?. PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. A good way to look at how this works can be seen through a few examples from Dynatrace customers that have set up this model. #1

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Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more. Dealing with an unstable website is stress that users don’t need, and definitely don’t want. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system.

Infrastructure 202

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. How do you make a system ‘observable’?

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IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 161

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 22, 2021

To provide a view of some of the unique challenges and opportunities of our domain, we’ll share some of the core strategies we’ve developed, some of the tools we’ve built as a result, and finally talk about our vision for the future of tooling on our team. Identifying impact requires deep engagement with our users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As we invested in systems to enable this vision, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications. Deployment Strategies We are all familiar with the advantages of releasing frequently and in smaller chunks.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. As part of our observability engineering strategy, we want that data as well and to make sure it gets sent to Dynatrace.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 179

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Powerful change streams and support for data definition language operations. Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? Introduction of clustered collections for optimized analytical queries.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 84

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Use the learnings to update and improve your test strategy, plan, test cases, and automated tests. Seek help from your team if you do not clearly understand a feature/system/module. Have a rollback strategy in place to prevent or minimize damage in case of a bug leaks to production. ANTICIPATE ISSUES AND BUILD A SAFETY NET.

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Education Traffic Strategy Testing 105

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This paper was published at OOPSLA, but perhaps it’s amongst the distributed systems community that I expect there to be the greatest interest. The paper sets the discussion in the context of geo-replicated distributed systems, but of course the same mechanisms could be equally useful in the context of local-first applications.

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Strategy Latency Systems Processing 104

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 1931 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem shattered the dream, showing that for any consistent axiomatic system there will always be theorems that cannot be proven within the system. To show that a machine learning model is fair, you need information from outside of the system. These are both utility based definitions.

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Metrics Government Best Practices Design 109

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s no surprise under that definition that we spend far more time on program maintenance than on initial development. Through that lens we are drawn to think about the life cycle of software systems, the evolutionary forces at play, and how we can guide and manage that evolution.

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Programming Software Software Software Engineering 99

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Whenever a new methodology or a new system is introduced, with it – certain terms and guidelines are introduced too. But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature.

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Testing Strategy Software Software 56

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. But this allows us to decouple content from code, by moving content to a Content Management System (CMS) we can update information in a few seconds, regardless of how big our application is. On-Demand Builders.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most fundamental and difficult challenge. The Core Domain(s) are parts of the system with the highest return on investment for the business. Time and resources are limited. A concept known as the Core Domain. This represents a compelling ROI.

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Open Source Games Innovation Strategy 87

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on).

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Configurations such as dashboards, alerting rules and Service Level Objective definitions are left to be created separately, and often manually. They allow us to easily create a primary key of a configuration that is unique in the system. Anything becomes harder to do at scale when it’s done manually. Identifiers are great!

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Open Source Code Monitoring Azure 139

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions. How to execute an effective mobile website testing strategy. Device cloud testing is the best way to scale up the number of devices & operating systems on which tests are performed.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

You can add any information you want here to communicate the alignment with the business strategy. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems. Your constructive feedback and suggestions are definitely welcome. These hints are purely recommendations. Personally, I do find these three to be the most useful.

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Design Strategy Innovation Processing 72

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Because most of those have been deployed in such a way that they are only communicating with trusted internal systems. Red-team exercises can uncover weaknesses in the system while it’s still under development. Not impossible, but definitely tougher. ) That’s because it is.

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Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

Also, if the application covers a large user base then definitely it is next to impossible to manually cover all possible device, browser, platform, and version combinations that your target audience may be using. Definitely yes we can! Hence, human focus and attention can be used on making better decisions and testing strategies.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

Making predictions is a dangerous game, but as we look forward to the next decade a few things seem certain: increasing automation, increasing system complexity, faster processing, more inter-connectivity, and an even greater human and societal dependence on technology. Automated systems need highly skilled operators. Section 2.1

Games 84

Games Monitoring Speed Systems 84

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Flexbox Defense is a play on the ‘tower defense’ strategy game genre that teaches you flexbox through 12 challenges where you have to use flexbox syntax to stop incoming enemies from getting past your defenses. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Image source: Flexbox Zombies ). Flexbox Defense. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Development Games Education Programming 145

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

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. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how I use them whenever designing system boundaries as a checklist to help me consider the many different ways in which a system could be designed. I hope you find these variables useful.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. Neither strategy paid off. Both companies burned through billions of dollars of investor capital on losing strategies in the handset market. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We now live in an age when it's possible to stream high definition TV, and yet we are not satisfied. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Problem of scale The real problem with bandwidth is not one of absolute speed but one of scale. Today, we have DSL and cable modems; tomorrow, fiber may be widespread.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. This is a youtube video by Lee Copeland who has over thirty years of experience as an information systems professional. Definitely, it supercharges your coffee and your tester friend is going to love it totally.

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Software Software Java Testing 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS. File Formats - PNG, JPEG, WebP, and SVG One of the final ways you can optimize images for web performance is to have a good strategy for the file formats you use.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

However, as software systems age, the time it takes to add new features grows exponentially?—?and However, it definitely is not. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. These metrics show the reliability of your software systems. and business innovation speed plummets.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 76

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

There are other systems involved in this tangled relationship. A software system is a model of a domain. The Business Model Canvas If you’re not familiar, here’s a quick definition of the main elements: Customers Segments = who do we provide value for? A large domain must be decomposed into software sub-systems.

Software Architecture 69

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 69

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

. “I’ll often deep-dive into a customer’s analytics system to figure out what particular funnels or journeys are being used to understand which types of pages are going to be heavily trafficked,” Howard says. Scale back or remove third-party systems that may not be crucial to end-user flows.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68