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. The specification of AV1 was published in 2018.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 228

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. As The New Stack reports, developers spend only 32% of their time at work actually coding.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

Cloud 81

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 81

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment. How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment. Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. Matthieu Cneude. 2021-09-21T11:30:00+00:00.

Development 98

Development Energy Programming Efficiency 98

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it.

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. We also describe how you can become a part of this development. New Netflix Buildings in Los Gatos. What is SVT-AV1?

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The term software compatibility describes how a product should provide the same result across all platforms on which it runs. Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. It simplifies the development and brings more contribution friendliness to the code, resulting in better potential for growing the community.

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Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 96

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

To write Swift code we use an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) or toolkit called Xcode , they both are backed by Apple. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers. Site reliability engineers bridge the gap between operations and software developers. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. GPU can also be considered as a special SPU.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently. Pay Per Use.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

At the forefront of Cubic’s Agile transformation to help the company innovate even faster is VP and CTO, Jim Colson, a former IBM fellow and a leading authority in scaling software delivery. Accelerating with a Software/Hardware Hybrid. Cross-Organizational Visibility . Connecting the Value Stream.

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Speed Metrics Transportation Hardware 52

Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

Continuous Testing is the testing strategy to fast-track the testing required for achieving rapid software development using Agile and DevOps methodologies. Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the other – without any human intervention. What is Continuous Testing?

Testing 55

Testing DevOps Performance Testing Infrastructure 55

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. Test Automation is a software testing method that uses automatic methods to carry out a test case collection.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 91

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

From the maintenance and monitoring of the machines and software to upgrading and installations — you’ll need all hands on deck. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Personally, I think – and this is clearly linked to the rise of AI and ML – that there has never been a better time than today to develop smart applications and use them. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Because three things are coming together. That is understandable.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Advantages and Disadvantages of Serverless.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

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Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Kärcher benefits as well: By developing this service, the company gets exact insight into how the machines are actually used by its customers.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It's fashionable to champion an investment-oriented model for software development, particularly around exploratory opportunities. Allocate risk capital, run experiments through software, learn what works and what doesn't work, re-focus, rinse, repeat, reap rewards. Software changes took minutes.

Technology 45

Technology Technology BioTech Games 45

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. When people have an idea for a piece of software or an app, they tend to be pretty energized about getting it to market as quickly as possible. As software developers, we’re usually right there with them.

Technology 139

Technology Technology Development Strategy 139

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Massive economies of scale and efficiency improvements allow AWS to continually lower prices.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. The key to success in life is learning from your mistakes. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. Dynatrace news. This is fueling key DevSecOps trends in 2022.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 267

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Apart from indexes, super efficient sorting and join operations are some major areas come to my mind with immediate benefits of using learned data structure. More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. Learned indexes.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40