The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. The graphic below (Fig.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. In this paper, we describe the architecture of Aurora and the design considerations leading to that architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The bad On the other hand, Kubernetes is not designed to handle large databases or mainframes. Joe Brockmeier gave a talk on this topic earlier this year at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver – “ Are Containers Ready for Production Databases ?” ” This talk covers this topic exactly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. PHP is Open Source Language The most important thing for a business is to optimize costs to make operations more cost-effective and improve profit margins.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. Amazon EC2.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Platforms that are useful in tracking, securing, and administering workloads across multiple clouds include: CloudZero AnyCost Terraform Lacework Cloudify These platforms, designed to handle setups across multiple clouds, make it easier to deploy and manage your cloud resources in a structured way.

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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. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. When designing and running modern, scalable, and distributed applications, Kubernetes seems to be the solution for all your needs. Cloud platform layer.

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Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use! Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Appium: Appium is one of the most preferred testing tools, especially by the open-source community. Being open-source, it also has a rich community! . Appium boasts of an easy set-up process, the tool also gives us the flexibility to reuse the source code within the Android and iOS ecosystem.

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Security testing – Testing that aims to reveal vulnerabilities that could potentially be open to abuse. Compatibility -Testing an application across multiple browsers, operating systems, devices, networks, or versions to determine any notable discrepancies. It’s an open-source program with extensive documentation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem? Customizing and connecting these services requires code. But beyond these IT and APM benefits, Dynatrace assists its customers with workflow management via DevOps optimizations.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. Docker), and the cloud. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The less across the network, the less electricity. making a network request over and over) rather than something event-based like web sockets? Rather than a file (like an image) needing to travel across the world, it comes from a server much geographically closer on a server designed for that job. The large one.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more. Find his writing on progressive web apps, responsiveness, and mobile-first design across the web , and follow him on Twitter at @ grigs.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc. due to unstable network connections. Fixing Code Smell.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. The older devices also have different screen resolutions which mean several features have to be categorically designed for them. Such information helps us design experiences for a higher retention rate. Which device brand do they use?

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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. Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Not always!

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

" Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine. Conftest : Conftest is a tool designed to enforce policies on configuration files. OPA can be integrated with a wide range of tools and systems, making it highly versatile.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

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. The predictions are then fed into a MIP which is solved on the fly.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Device Mode You can test your website and media queries to see if your responsive design is breaking anywhere by going into device mode. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. In the Network panel click the Throttle dropdown and then Add.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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