The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations. Video downscaling is the most pertinent example herein, which tailors our encoding to screen resolutions of different devices and optimizes picture quality under varying network conditions. A visual example is shown below.

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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. Let’s explore some real-life custom solution examples that leverage the power of the Dynatrace core platform technologies to go beyond observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

We have deployed Auto Remediation in production for handling memory configuration errors and unclassified errors of Spark jobs and observed its efficiency and effectiveness (e.g., For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

One of the more popular use cases is monitoring business processes, the structured steps that produce a product or service designed to fulfill organizational objectives. Let’s examine a few practical business process monitoring examples. Choose an attribute common to each business event (for example, order_id) as the correlation ID.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results. Sort By Column. FETCH NEXT 25 ROWS ONLY ; -- wait a little bit.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. For example, the QA team would only have access to data from the QA environment rather than having access to the production environment. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2024

The goal is to unify four key areas of the organization into one holistic service design and delivery approach. For example, an employee might not have the tools to efficiently retrieve data about a customer as they work to solve an issue. This could lead to frustration on both sides and create negative experiences.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The resulting vast increase in data volume highlights the need for more efficient data handling solutions. Thus, organizations face the critical problem of designing and implementing effective solutions to manage this growing data deluge and its associated implications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. What is Azure Linux?

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Edge Perspectives

MARCH 26, 2019

In our Big Shift world, we confront the imperative of institutional innovation – shifting from institutional models built on scalable efficiency to institutional models built on scalable learning. I’ve written and spoken about this a lot over the years and one of the most common pushbacks I get is – “so, are you against efficiency?”

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Aligning workload types and sizes with instance performance and capacity requirements is essential to keep costs down.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

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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. As customers continue to operate in the cloud, their needs for efficiency and cost-effectiveness only grow.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

AI can help automate tasks, improve efficiency, and identify potential problems before they occur. Data, AI, analytics, and automation are key enablers for efficient IT operations Data is the foundation for AI and IT automation. IT automation also helps improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. With performance optimization at its core along with mitigating risks associated with relying solely on one cloud provider or taking advantage of cost efficiencies. What is Hybrid Cloud?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. Explainable AI tools and practices are important for understanding and weeding out biases like this to improve output accuracy and operational efficiency.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. It is possible to remount on the fly; For example, in order to remount /mnt/db/ with these options: mount -oremount,rw,noatime/mnt/db It is necessary to add/edit the corresponding line in /etc/fstab for the option to persist on reboots.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. Example use case: Building model explainers Here’s a fascinating example of the usefulness of portable execution environments.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. Its ease-of-use tools allow you to perform responsiveness testing quickly and efficiently.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Grail is designed for scalability, with no technical prerequisites or additional hosting and storage costs as ingestion rates increase. This compelling success story underscores how the Dynatrace customer-centric pricing approach can drive efficiency, cost savings, and performance improvements for businesses in any sector.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

They should ensure alignment with operational requirements while choosing the most appropriate log format configuration to efficiently manage server activities directly or indirectly related to potential data transformations on databases under stewardship. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Designed to reach beyond petabyte (PB) scale, OpenPipeline will—at its launch— quintuple the ingest throughput from 100 TB a day per tenant to 500 TB a day per tenant. OpenPipeline extracts data with context and transforms it into more efficient formats, for example, logs to metrics. Commitment to privacy.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. FinOps becomes more critical as organizations grow The value of FinOps lies in its potential to move organizations toward financial success with smart, cost-efficient cloud spend implemented from day one. What is FinOps?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For example, how much does a reduction in MTTR impact revenue? For example, generative AI has the potential to provide more intuitive methods of querying data. The panelists speculated that AI will likely improve quality of life for SRE teams through its ability to efficiently execute tasks.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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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 how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

How to Implement Pagination in MongoDB® Big datasets require efficient data retrieval and processing for effective management. Pagination is an important factor to consider in MongoDB as it allows for the efficient organization of big datasets. The next() method then progresses through this set for efficient retrieval.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. For example, a separate bucket could be used for detailed logs from Dynatrace Synthetic nodes.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. For example, users generate user data, ecommerce sites generate business data, and service portals generate service desk tickets and call volume data. But it doesn’t stop there.

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