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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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The best thing about Black box testing is that it can be applied to all levels of testing ( Unit, integration, system, and acceptance). It is a software testing technique to examine the functioning of software from an external outlook without digging deeper into its code.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

OKRs should be designed so that every team’s activities can be traced up to the company’s vision. This is easier said than done, so we’ve designed three sets of OKRs examples for software companies to show how it’s possible. Get the ebook on designing flow-based OKRs. This is your Objective.

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High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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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. A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. traditional software) to a Software 2.0 In Software 1.0

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design. New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design. You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. Dozens of practical examples and techniques. Iris Lješnjanin. 2021-08-11T13:25:00+00:00.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, you have dozens of teams with hundreds of engineers who are responsible for ensuring high availability and reliability, including employing fault-tolerant systems, and implementing rigorous testing and monitoring procedures. They can only view information and can’t add services or do any harm to the system.

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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. This is where xMatters Flow Designer comes into play, by automating remediation steps at the touch of a button. Dynatrace news. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

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DZone

MARCH 8, 2024

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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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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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. For example, a user has submitted a form, and the progress bar is showing no progress or activity then the user will get confused if the form has been submitted successfully or not.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It helps to understand whether a program can be used on any operating system other than the one for which it was designed. Let’s find out what is configuration testing with an example and how does it work? Or whether there is any work required to make software run in the new environment.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. For example, generating an image requires as much power as fully charging your smartphone.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., Increasingly we’re dealing with larger and larger datasets — for example, data imported via csv files — and spreadsheets are creaking. They often freeze during computation, and are unable to import datasets well below the size limits posed by current spreadsheet systems.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

And while the ecosystem is continuously growing, there will be situations where you need to connect a bespoke system, implement an edge case that is yet to be made available, or you want to cover complex customer business logic to address your requirements. AutomationEngine workflow example for a bespoke ordering system.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes at scale in the enterprise is complex.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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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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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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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. The old ground-initiated command-and-control style systems aren’t going to work for these finer-grained systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 25, 2022

Apache Camel is an integration framework, which basically means that it is a set of tools that will help you connect one system to another. A basic example could be listening to an AWS SQS queue and saving a file in Google Cloud Storage Bucket for each message that has been received.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, most monitoring solutions are deployed piecemeal or simply don’t support integration with other critical systems. Because Dynatrace provides such a comprehensive monitoring system , a dashboard filled with detailed monitoring data isn’t useful for many higher-level stakeholders.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace. Efficiently locate and export your end users’ personal data Let’s walk through a fictitious example to explore privacy rights handling in Dynatrace.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing. System testing- checks end to end flows works as expected. Acceptance testing- to validate the system is developed as per business requirement. Re-execute all.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system , McIlroy-Young et al., For example, a player with a lower rating is going to play different moves to a player with a stronger one. Neither Stockfish nor Leela were designed to match human moves of course, they were just built to play the strongest chess possible.

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