The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, there are cases where the same column is defined on multiple indexes in order to serve different query patterns, and sometimes some of the indexes created for the same column are redundant, leading to more overhead when inserting or deleting data (as indexes are updated) and increased disk space for storing the indexes for the table.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data. These applications can range from simple map viewers to complex spatial analysis tools.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

These excellent tools are built for purpose, such as planning, design, development, testing, service desk and so on, and enable specialists teams to do their jobs more efficiently and collaboratively. Start stitching your integration patterns today. Click image to download e-book. Click image to download e-book. Learn more.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Bring logic to data with easy-to-build apps As a unified observability and security platform, Dynatrace is designed to be open and customizable from the ground up. The app scans all incoming logs for various patterns and uses DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) to collect context like hosts, other processes, and traces for each potential problem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. IPS enables users to continue to use the data processing patterns with minimal changes. Introduction Netflix relies on data to power its business in all phases. data arrives too late to be useful).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article I’ll outline my mental model why multithreading is important on the web, I’ll give you an introduction to the primitives that we as developers have at our disposal, and I’ll talk a bit about architectures that make it easy to adopt multithreading, even incrementally. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. What was problematic about this design?

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With the introduction of HTTP/2, things changed. An anti pattern, even. In our specific examples above, the one-big-file pattern incurred 201ms of latency, whereas the many-files approach accumulated 4,362ms by comparison. If you are still running HTTP/1.1, my only advice is to upgrade to HTTP/2. That’s almost 22× more!

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Designing Interface Animation by Val Head 5 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Gut by Giulia Enders 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. In order to do so, we started by analyzing the packager’s IO patterns and configuring the packager to make its patterns more friendly to cloud writes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This was one of the most demanded features, and with the introduction of security policies, this control mechanism is finally available. Using the policy language, you can create a repository of security policies that reflect the access patterns of your organization. Policy format. Built-in automation.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 13, 2009

He also runs a blog on iPhone development , and a site dedicated to Javascript design patterns at JSPatterns.com (it’s been quiet for quite awhile now, but I’m hoping to see it brought out of retirement). all the way through to a few basic, albeit useful, design patterns. What’s Covered? Final Verdict.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

As with any sustainable engineering design, focusing on simplicity is very important. This means using existing infrastructure and established patterns within the Netflix ecosystem as much as possible and minimizing the introduction of new technologies. By applying existing established patterns in our ecosystem on top of Sqooby.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

By Guru Tahasildar , Amir Ziai , Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction Netflix leverages machine learning to create the best media for our members. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. Incredible!” Thus, we didn’t build all the modules completely.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal , Burak Bacioglu Introduction At Netflix, to promote and recommend the content to users in the best possible way there are many Media Algorithm teams which work hand in hand with content creators and editors. in a video file.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns. Serving and Searching Media feature values can be optionally synchronized to other systems depending on necessary query patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1). Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1). On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. For example, the client is in process of rebranding and the website needs to be updated with a new design and revamped content. Adrian Bece. 2021-07-12T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The designation is done in your Hub Settings, where you select the environment type—testing or production—and give a name to each environment. Filtering just got a whole lot better with the introduction of a bunch of new features: . Nothing else in the Hub instance is impacted.) . Testing Environments Are Indicated by An Orange Label.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By Billur Engin , Yinghong Lan , Grace Tang , Cristina Segalin , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction At Netflix, we want our viewers to easily find TV shows and movies that resonate and engage. Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents each title featured on our platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The basic pattern for how EAS handles requests is as follows: For each request coming into the Netflix service, the EAS Inbound Filter in Zuul inspects the tokens provided by the device client and either passes through the request to the Passport Injection Filter, or delegates to one of the Edge Authentication Services to process.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Back of the Napkin #.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 31, 2014

For web-specific titles: Responsible Responsive Design , Designing for Performance and The Manual (I’m just going to cheat and say read all the issues). Designing for Performance by Lara Hogan 5 ⁄ 5 Designing for Performance is the book to hand to anyone—designer or developer—who wants to get started making faster sites.

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Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. You’ll definitely notice a few strong patterns and a lot of overlap. Devin Harold.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. Employ Critical CSS. This is great news for users! This is on purpose.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved. Make an effort to visualise them.

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Percona

JULY 15, 2023

Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification. As such, index design should consider the size of indexed columns and the potential benefits they offer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. For more details, see Kubernetes API Concepts and the Shared Informer Pattern. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

An Introduction To Quasar Framework: Building Cross-Platform Applications. An Introduction To Quasar Framework: Building Cross-Platform Applications. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. App Design. Joel Olawanle. Getting Started.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

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