The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. IT pros want a data and analytics solution that doesn’t require tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. That’s because every company is now a software company. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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Analytics Software Software Storage 196

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. How open-source packages have changed the game.

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Open Source Cloud Games Java 170

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This openness is accompanied by reduced data quality which limits the value of analyses run on data lakes. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context.

Artificial Intelligence 272

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 272

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

As organizations look to speed their digital transformation efforts, automating time-consuming, manual tasks is critical for IT teams. In fact, according to a Forrester Consulting report , implementing an AIOps approach that provides proactive visibility helped companies improve operational efficiency and reduce false-positive alerts by 95%.

Artificial Intelligence 291

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 291

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Microservices are decoupled and independent.

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Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 200

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Many organizations already employ DevOps, an approach to developing software that combines development and operations in a continuous cycle to build, test, release, and refine software in an efficient feedback loop. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. Integrated security enables automation.

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DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 158

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Reliability.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

DevOps seeks to accomplish smooth and efficient software creation, delivery, monitoring, and improvement by prioritizing agility and adaptability over rigid, stage-by-stage development. This shift is critical to support the ever-accelerating development speeds that both customers and stakeholders demand. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed.

Strategy 229

Strategy Innovation Cloud Serverless 229

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Our experiments show an impressive level of both performance and cost efficiency.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. We want our font to be an extension of the design, as well as make our content pleasing to the eye, drawing our readers interest. Source: caniuse.com. But what about our web font’s performance?

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Speed Performance Google Open Source 65

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

With the introduction of Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI , the development of mobile apps has become more accessible, efficient, and streamlined. These frameworks are based on declarative syntax, which allows developers to build native UI for Android and iOS, respectively, with ease and speed.

Mobile 269

Mobile Monitoring Entertainment Innovation 269

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

” Moreover, as modern DevOps practices have increased the speed of software delivery, more than two-thirds (69%) of chief information security officers (CISOs) say that managing risk has become more difficult. Implementing a well-designed vulnerability management practice can provide an organization with significant benefits.

Traffic 168

Traffic Java Network DevOps 168

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. As automation improves quality and efficiency, the simplest result — and perhaps the most noticeable — is getting features to users faster.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

In this blog post, we are thrilled to share that we are open-sourcing one such tool: the Netflix Data Explorer. Dynomite is a high-speed in-memory database, providing highly available cross datacenter replication while preserving Redis-like semantics. Users can opt-in to retrieve these fields with their choice of encoding.

Metrics 152

Metrics Best Practices Strategy Design 152

Percona

AUGUST 2, 2023

Linux native Input/Output (I/O) statistics Pipe viewer utility By following these approaches, we can effectively monitor the restoration process and manage your MySQL database restoration efficiently. The Pipe Viewer utility, pv, is a command-line tool designed to monitor the progress of data flowing through a pipe. Happy Monitoring!

Database 80

Database Monitoring C++ Speed 80

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code? But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 87

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 87

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). But 18% already have applications in production. Or is there still room for growth?

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three three plans and one offer homogeneously applied to all regions. What’s Next?

Mobile 209

Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 209

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

So, when designing Amazon SageMaker we took on a challenge: to build machine learning algorithms that can handle an infinite amount of data. This post lifts the veil on some of the scientific, system design, and engineering decisions we made along the way. What does that even mean though? This sounds like a pipe dream.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. It’s used to help ensure the functionality of hardware, software, and applications.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Both are open-sourced frameworks using JavaScript. ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library. React library is designed in a way that it can integrate with existing code or other libraries effortlessly. More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework.

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Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Tech News Gather

JUNE 22, 2023

Flutter is a free and open-source UI framework for creating cross-platform apps that run equally well on mobile devices, the web, and desktop computers. The interface, design, and usability should be their primary concerns. Furthermore, Flutter doubles the efficiency of the development group. Okay, but how?

Mobile 40

Mobile Strategy Google Speed 40

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

ERROR: [075]: no backup set found to restore Conclusion One of the key advantages of running PostgreSQL with Percona Operator is the speed of innovation it brings to the table. HINT: has a stanza-create been performed? Furthermore, the integration of bootstrapping PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes with CICD pipelines is vital. Interested?

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Storage Database Media Open Source 91

Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Partition Manager — ‘pg_partman’ — is an open source extension freely available, widely supported, and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. This analyze can be skipped by setting this to false and help increase the speed of moving large amounts of data.

Storage 97

Storage Open Source Database Efficiency 97

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind. significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. PWAs can save the time and efforts required to develop an entire native application for multiple platforms from scratch, hence speeding up the time to market and enhancing audience reach. MaterialUI.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64