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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

Consequently, by understanding the intricacies involved, this enables us to swiftly confirm or refute the functional/business case of the business teams involved, including project managers, top management, developers, and tech leads. Path 2 (easier): I’m familiar with my application and the development team.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. the difference in metric values between Groups A and B?—?the The variability of the metric in the underlying population. Sample size.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. We will talk more about how we used these metrics in the sections to follow.

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. Developers are often strongly discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place.

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Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Dynatrace

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. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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Seven benefits of AIOps to transform your business operations

Dynatrace

A truly modern AIOps solution also serves the entire software development lifecycle to address the volume, velocity, and complexity of multicloud environments. By implementing AIOps, teams can free up developers to tackle new projects. But AIOps also improves metrics that matter to the bottom line. Expanded collaboration.