The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Kamer Toker-Yildiz , Colin McFarland , Julia Glick At Netflix, when we can’t run A/B experiments we run quasi experiments ! We run quasi experiments with various objectives such as non-member experiments focusing on acquisition, member experiments focusing on member engagement, or video streaming experiments focusing on content delivery. Consolidating on one methodology could be a challenge, as we may face different design or data constraints or optimization goals.

Metrics 179

Metrics Media Design Testing 179

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance.

Azure 137

Azure Benchmarking Database Performance 137

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I have always been very fortunate to meet our AWS customers where they have most impact, at their customers. Many of these AWS customers are solving really hard human problems, in ways that is extremely inspiring for any builder, like me. That became the inspiration for the Now Go Build series that chronicles my conversations with these innovators and their customers.

Healthcare 154

Healthcare AWS Innovation 154

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Responsive design is an absolute necessity in today’s web. More users are visiting websites from their mobile devices than ever before , and if your website doesn’t look good on when viewed from that device, they’ll bounce. Unfortunately, many themes and frameworks achieve responsive design by using hidden images on mobile devices or tablets.

Design 57

Design Media Mobile Website 57

SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In this 17h article of the SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we are going to explore the SQL Server replication for the distribution database in the availability group. Introduction In the earlier article (see TOC at the bottom), we explored how you can add the publisher and subscriber database in a high availability […].

Servers 57

Servers Availability Database 57