The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding. Left: Lanczos downscaling; right: deep downscaler.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While the curtains have fallen on Perform 2024 , the Dynatrace annual user conference, the commitment and collaborative nature of our partner relationships is consistently being demonstrated. For example, a multinational manufacturing company wanted to improve the performance and user experience of their mobile apps and websites.

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Innovation Analytics Mobile Website 197

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In semi-supervised anomaly detection models, only a set of benign examples are required for training. Data Data Labeling For the task of anomaly detection in streaming platforms, as we have neither an already trained model nor any labeled data samples, we use structural a priori domain-specific rule-based assumptions, for data labeling.

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C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

And specifically, how Dynatrace can help partners deliver multicloud performance and boundless analytics for their customers’ digital transformation and success. The Services Endorsement Program includes training and certification for partners that span unified observability and security, AIOps, and advanced DevSecOps and CloudOps.

Programming 180

Programming Analytics Innovation Best Practices 180

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

design , Sheng, CIDR’20. ’ design. the majority of our effort goes into curating training data, i.e., specification-by-example of what the system should do. design delivered Google four main benefits: Precision and recall quickly surpassed the results from the heuristics-based system. In Software 1.0

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Systems Design Software Software 84

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

Design 101

Design Media Testing Entertainment 101

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. What do you see as the biggest challenge for performance and reliability? Dynatrace news.

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Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 177

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

By carving the right AWS certification path, developers can even use their certification and training to advance their careers long term. Not only will they get much more out of the tools they use daily, but they’ll also be able to deliver superior functionality, efficiency, and performance to your customers.

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AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 209

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The proxy is designed to run continuously without needing to be restarted. Below are backup methods to perform a backup restore of the ProxySQL server. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings.

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Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 107

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Auto Remediation generates recommendations by considering both performance (i.e., In addition, even if a job’s memory configuration is initially well tuned, changes such as data size and job definition can cause performance to degrade. In this way, no human intervention is required in the remediation process.

Tuning 210

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach which enables training on a large corpus of decentralized data residing on devices like mobile phones. No individual updates are stored in the cloud, and no training data leaves the device.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Additionally, Dynatrace creates predefined dashboard templates to visualize each service usage and performance. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Dynatrace analyzes Amazon Neptune performance of resources (CPU, memory, network), requests and errors.

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AWS Cloud IoT Database 269

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Another group of cases involving text (typically novels and novelists) argue that using copyrighted texts as part of the training data for a Large Language Model (LLM) is itself copyright infringement, 1 even if the model never reproduces those texts as part of its output. Is an artist’s style copyrightable, and if so, what does that mean?

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Therefore, many lack training and familiarity with newer tools designed for cloud-based technologies. Conversely, declining trust can make it difficult for agencies to perform their work, increases skepticism and scrutiny from regulatory bodies and citizens alike.

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Education Government Innovation Cloud 200

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL), teams can perform these analyses by asking questions that weren’t possible in the past. Gaining insights from data stored within Dynatrace has traditionally been limited to people within an organization who have specific expertise and training. This is no longer the case.

Analytics 229

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 229

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. At a glance – TLDR.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. As a result, a successful digital transformation strategy requires that organizations make changes to organizational culture and provide employee training. Improved customer experience. Competitive advantage.

Strategy 175

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 175

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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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

O'Reilly

MAY 9, 2023

Using AI means auditing the outputs of AI systems to ensure that they’re fair; it means documenting the behaviors of AI models and training data sets so that users know how the data was collected and what biases are inherent in that data. It means designing systems that augment and liberate human capabilities, rather than replacing them.

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Infrastructure Government Design Tuning 85

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

Runtime application self-protection is a security design pattern for embedding web application protection directly into an application or application runtime environment. Rather than using a trained model to predict behavior, RASP watches an application’s runtime, studying the application’s task execution to detect attacks.

Tuning 223

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 223

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

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. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. What is FinOps? FinOps behavioral change management.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 195

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Background For the past few months engineers from Nutanix have been participating in the MLPerftm Storage benchmark which is designed to measure the storage performance required for ML training workloads. Some technical notes on our submission to the benchmark committee. appeared first on n0derunner.

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Benchmarking Storage Servers Engineering 59

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Executing cutting-edge intelligent apps’ deployment after successful training becomes much easier thanks primarily to this functionality made possible!

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures.

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Cloud Serverless Innovation Architecture 244

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Last week, I watched the Mastering Chaos Engineering Performance Clinic from my colleague Andi Grabner and Ana Margarita Medina, Chaos Engineer from Gremlin which could have totally changed this opinion of the watchers. In the Performance Clinic, Ana also mentioned it can be used to train engineers in terms of training failure situations.

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Engineering Cloud Monitoring Testing 140

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. This is an Innovation release. Download Percona XtraBackup 8.1.0-1

Innovation 84

Innovation Open Source Scalability Database 84

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. Second: Copilot was trained on the body of code in GitHub. The model will certainly need to be re-trained from time to time.

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Code Programming C++ Testing 120

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

More than half of all respondents cited two key SRE adoption barriers: the perceived difficulty of training existing IT professionals in SRE best practices, and the cost and difficulty of finding skilled professionals. By removing physical dependencies, automation can help perform SRE at scale. Make SRE accessible.

Best Practices 187

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 187

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Implementing a well-designed vulnerability management practice throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) can provide an organization’s development team with significant benefits. Teams should be trained on security concerns in addition to their typical responsibilities. Vulnerability management.

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Best Practices Education Monitoring Government 193

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1 Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.11

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Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database 77

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

What really blew me away, is that this result includes the time taken to train the model used! The resulting performance depends on the quality of the model predictions, a higher quality model leads to fewer collisions, and fewer out-of-order items to be patched in the final Insertion Sort pass. The big idea.

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Cache C++ Java Tuning 137