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

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. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. I’m going to use an example taken straight from Bootstrap’s own Getting Started. What Am I Talking About?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Davis AI, Grail, and data observability By grouping common data observability issues into industry-standard pillars, we can provide tangible examples and showcase current capabilities. Solution : Like the freshness example, Dynatrace can monitor the record count over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Let’s examine a few examples of answer-driven automation using AI and context. DevOps automation example #2: Threat detection and response Let’s build on the previous example.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Regular Dynatrace Managed deployments can work seamlessly when a maximum of two nodes are down at a time and the network has low latency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. For example, one user may fill in several fields, click multiple buttons, and upload a file, while another may click several other buttons and fail to upload the file. Examples of real user monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Subsequent posts will go into more details on experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix. Continuing on an example from Part 3 , a false negative corresponds to labeling the photo of the cat as a “not cat.”

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we share how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. Step 1 – Let Dynatrace analyze your infrastructure health in real-time. This is where xMatters Flow Designer comes into play, by automating remediation steps at the touch of a button.

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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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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Some common examples include: A request through API Gateway or Amplify. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. How does AWS Lambda work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For example, an SLA between a web host provider and customer can guarantee 99.95% uptime for all web services of a company over a year. For example, if the SLA for a website is 99.95% uptime, its corresponding SLO could be 99.95% availability of the login services. For example, if your SLO guarantees 99.5% What are SLOs?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Four Pillars of CDN Design‍CDN architecture can be broken down into several building blocks, known as the Four Pillars of CDN Design. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location. Here are a few examples.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of digital business initiatives will require infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to include digital experience metrics in their business reporting. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS). In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. In cloud computing environments, infrastructure and services are maintained by the cloud vendor, allowing you to focus on how best to serve your customers. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too.

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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

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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VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

The Log4J vulnerability is a classic example of an apparently harmless component suddenly becoming problematic. For example, the Australian phone company Telstra runs a copy of the entire Australian phone system. Sampling every thousandth event, for example, might give you a degree of visibility without bogging the system down.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. paulddraper : The biggest lesson HN teaches for designing large scale systems is "use a large scale system someone else has already designed".

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. They appreciate the reduced latency, added redundancy, data durability, resiliency, greater disaster recovery capability, and the ability to scale across multiple Regions.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

Although this response has a 0B filesize, we will always take the latency hit on every single page view (and this response is basically 100% latency). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. If you’re interested in seeing a real-world example of this, consider the following filmstrip comparison.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. On high latency connections, this saving could be tangible. Examples and Recipes. stale-while-revalidate. assets/style.1.2.14.css

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital Edge Computing (OEC) is designed to do just that. The particular form of local processing depends on the application, but it could include for example CNN-based image classification, object detection, segmentation, or even federated machine learning. Introducing Orbital Edge Computing (OEC).

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

For example, the number of threads of your process is already available in Dynatrace in most cases, so there is no need to spend the extra effort. Virtualization can be a key player in your process’ performance, and Dynatrace has built-in integrations to bring metrics about the Cloud Infrastructure into your Dynatrace environment.

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Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 132

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. This methodology aims to improve software system reliability using several key categories such as availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

If products are not designed, keeping testability in mind, achieving continuous testing may become a distant dream. Lack of Testing Infrastructure: Often, organizations embark on the path of embracing Continuous Testing, without realizing the budgetary needs for it. Not always!

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, consider some of the new capabilities that real-time digital twins can provide in fleet telematics and vaccine distribution during COVID-19. To address security requirements or the need for tight integration with existing infrastructure, many organizations need to host their streaming analytics platform on-premises.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

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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. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages.

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