The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence is now set to power individualized employee growth and development. From performance reviews to goal setting, AI’s analytical prowess significantly streamlines growth and development processes. IAI can enhance the processes that nurture employee experiences and a healthy and motivated workforce.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

On Episode 52 of the Tech Transforms podcast, Dimitris Perdikou, head of engineering at the UK Home Office , Migration and Borders, joins Carolyn Ford and Mark Senell to discuss the innovative undertakings of one of the largest and most successful cloud platforms in the UK. It also helps reduce the agency’s carbon footprint.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

While development teams focus on innovation and quick release cycles, operations teams and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) focus on stability. Of course, your customers expect both fast innovation and reliability. Then you can orchestrate the software development lifecycle and remediate issues automatically.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud Innovation Award, NORAM. In a world where innovation is everything, congratulations to our NORAM Cloud Innovation Award winner, Orasi , for their continued commitment to building a highly differentiated offering. Cloud Innovation Award, LATAM. Cloud Innovation Award. Congratulations to all the team.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Check them out.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Developers and operators can gain insights into their applications and infrastructure without fear of vendor lock-in because OpenTelemetry is fully open source and owned by CNCF. A collector helps developers control their telemetry data streams for each signal. So, stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Developing automation takes time. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. By tuning workflows, you can increase their efficiency and effectiveness. This enables IT admins to spend more time on innovation, rather than constantly fighting fires.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Check them out.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

State and local agencies must spend taxpayer dollars efficiently while building a culture that supports innovation and productivity. The agencies resisted adopting the tool because it required significant time to configure and tune collected metrics into valuable information. Ultimately, Zbojniewicz has saved $1.4M

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

With an integrated DevSecOps approach, organizations can reduce security risk without derailing development timelines. How is it different from DevOps, and what’s next for the relationship between development, security, and operations within enterprises? The tactical trifecta: development + security + operations.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Yet it reveals a migration trajectory favoring multi-cloud models as companies wake up to advantages such as heightened innovation potential tied with these varied service structures.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In our conversations with developers and engineers during the conference, we confirmed the CNCF GItOps Microsurvey data – 91% are already using GitOps. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Then I will describe various types of security products that can be used for web application security including some innovations that Dynatrace has recently introduced. Good web application security starts when the application is being developed. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project. If you want more information on Keptn, then I suggest joining the Keptn Open Source community and help us drive innovation that benefits both the open-source project and Dynatrace Cloud Automation Solution.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news. What’s next.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. via bug fixes).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Allowing architectures to be nimble and evolve over time, allowing organizations to take advantage of innovations as a standard practice. The ultimate goal of each of these reviews is to identify gaps, quantify risk, and develop recommendations for improving the team, processes, and architecture with each of the five pillars.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Error budgets allow development teams to make informed decisions between new development vs operations and polishing existing software. Properly set and defined SLOs should have error budgets that give developers space to innovate without impacting operations. This makes developing effective SLOs more challenging.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

It is a dark pattern, a map to suboptimal outcomes rather than the true path to competition, innovation and the creation of robust companies and markets. In a well-functioning market, many startups would have explored a technology innovation like on-demand transportation over a much longer period. I disagree.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring is a process by which developers and administrators continuously observe logs as they’re being recorded. Log analysis can reveal potential bottlenecks and inefficient configurations so teams can fine-tune system performance. Accelerated innovation. What is log monitoring? What is log analytics?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Serverless functions extend applications to accelerate speed of innovation. These serverless functions allow developers to focus on their business logic. So please stay tuned! They may be used to, for example, integrate a new payment service or create a new interface for a booking platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We encouraged all teams to start collaborating with the UX team from the very first phases of a project, in order to develop the right user flow and the right framework. We are actively working on innovating how to scale the UX team and escalate the impact we can have on the company and our platform. developers).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Containers are the key technical enablers for tremendously accelerated deployment and innovation cycles. It is a suite of tools for developers to build, share, run and orchestrate containerized apps. Initially developed by Google, it’s now available in many distributions and widely supported by all public cloud vendors.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. There’s no doubt PostgreSQL provides a solid foundation for innovative development. Free to innovate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Rather than exposing 100s of microservices to UI developers, Netflix offers a unified API aggregation layer at the edge. UI developers love the simplicity of working with one conceptual API for a large domain. Back-end developers love the decoupling and resilience offered by the API layer.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

SREs typically start their days with meetings to ensure that various stakeholders—such as clients, IT team leaders, Kubernetes platform operations team leaders, and business leaders—that their projects are developing smoothly. This saves valuable time for engineers and architects for innovation.” Henrik Rexed, Open-Source Advocate.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Need to free up a few hours a week to focus on innovation and spend less time interpreting data and troubleshooting? Devonte Emokpae , Head of Development, Doctify. It brings more visibility and more accountability from the developer. Dynatrace news. Are you looking to scale your team but don’t have the budget? What’s next??

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless can accelerate innovation (and introduce blind spots). Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. Developing the?Dynatrace A single pane of glass to view trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For one, they often favor stability over innovation. Even if you are not considering all the interesting improvements that have been added by the development team from MongoDB, this new version is already very important from the database supportability and lifecycle planning perspective. Databases are different from a lot of software.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

To unlock these innovations we are making a strategic choice that our focus should be geared towards developing the surrounding infrastructure so that scientists’ work can be easily absorbed into the wider Netflix Experimentation Platform. This will also make graduating new research into the experimentation platform difficult.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news. What’s next.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2019

During Perform Barcelona 2019, which, by the way, was a blast, many of you approached us in the Innovation Center asking about new locations for Dynatrace Synthetic. We’ll keep adding new public locations to give you more options when defining synthetic monitors as part of Dynatrace Synthetic development. What’s new?

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