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Measuring Dialogue Intelligibility for Netflix Content

The Netflix TechBlog

Enhancing Member Experience Through Strategic Collaboration Ozzie Sutherland , Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu , BhanuSrikanth At Netflix, delivering the best possible experience for our members is at the heart of everything we do, and we know we cant do it alone. Thats why we work closely with a diverse ecosystem of technology partners, combining their deep expertise with our creative and operational insights.

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Threat detection in cloud native environments: Detecting suspicious Kubernetes service account behavior

Dynatrace

With the current threat landscape, attackers are often targeting cloud-native environments. The inherent nature of these environments means they are often spun up very quickly and are distributed, leading to monitoring and security challenges. Attackers leverage this fact, which is clearly demonstrated by the increasingly short time to exploit. On top of that, while the increasing use of AI in security can certainly benefit organizations, AI can also lead to an explosion of security findings tha

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AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era

O'Reilly

Thanks so much for joining us today. We have over 20,000 people signed up for this event, both subscribers on the oreilly.com platform and those who arent yet subscribers. I think youre here because you all sense what I do: we’re witnessing not the end of programming, but its remarkable expansion. This is the most exciting moment in software development that I’ve seen during my more than 40 years in this industry.

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Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud: Choosing the Right Strategy for AI Scalability and Security

DZone

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, their cloud strategy determines whether they can efficiently train models, scale workloads, and ensure compliance. Given the computational intensity and data sensitivity of AI, businesses must choose between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures. While both hybrid cloud and multi-cloud approaches offer distinct advantages, understanding their nuances is crucial for organizations aiming to build robust AI infrastructure.

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Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline

The Netflix TechBlog

Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system comprises of diverse sub-systems designed to monitor, measure, and optimize ad campaigns. At Netflix, we embarked on a journey to build a robust event processing platform that not only meets the current demands but also scales for future needs.

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Dynatrace launchpads: Focus on what matters with customizable home pages

Dynatrace

A customizable, responsive UI/UX solution is integral to developing modern software. Because Dynatrace is used by different teams and departments with different requirements, its important that launch experiences (aka launchpads ) offer flexibility to accommodate each user’s use casesthere is no one-size-fits-all solution. One team might need a launchpad to onboard a new hire and display important internal onboarding resources, link to the teams central notes, CI/CD integrations, and essen

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MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 1

O'Reilly

1. ELI5: Understanding MCP Imagine you have a single universal plug that fits all your devicesthat’s essentially what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is for AI. MCP is an open standard (think USB-C for AI integrations ) that allows AI models to connect to many different apps and data sources in a consistent way. In simple terms, MCP lets an AI assistant talk to various software tools using a common language, instead of each tool requiring a different adapter or custom code.

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Deploying External Read Replica in MySQL InnoDB Cluster

Percona

Innodb Cluster or ClusterSet topologies already have secondary instancesthat can act as a failover for primary or also offload read requests. However, with MySQL 8.4, we now have the feasibility of adding a separate async replica to the cluster for serving various special/ad-hoc queries or some reporting purposes.

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Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

Uber Engineering

Goodbye resource leaks! Learn how the FixrLeak framework leverages GenAI and AST-level analysis to automatically detect and fix resource leaks in large-scale Java applications at Uber.

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Redis AI Use Cases for Efficient Data Processing

Scalegrid

Curious about how Redis AI can be applied? This article explores Redis AI use cases and its impact on them, including enhancing search capabilities, improving chatbot performance, and optimizing machine learning workflows. Key Takeaways Enhanced Search Capabilities: Redis AI improves search operations by leveraging vector similarity, resulting in faster and more accurate search results.

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Scalable System Design: Core Concepts for Building Reliable Software

DZone

System design refers to the process of defining and creating a high-level architecture that meets certain requirements related to performance, scalability, availability, maintainability, and more. Based on my learnings and experience so far as a senior software engineering leader, I have tried to summarize the key concepts of software system design.

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MongoDB Benchmarking Made Effortless With MongoDB Workload Generator

Percona

Recognizing a gap in the availability of straightforward tools for MongoDB benchmarking, particularly those that do not require complex compilation, configuration, and intricate setups, I developed MongoDB Workload Generator. The aim was to provide MongoDB users with an accessible solution for effortlessly generating realistic data and simulating application workloads on both sharded and non-sharded clusters.

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Migrating Uber’s Compute Platform to Kubernetes: A Technical Journey

Uber Engineering

Migrating tech stacks at Ubers scale isnt easy. Learn how we migrated our stateless container orchestration platform to Kubernetes and operate it at a scale of 3 million cores with 1.5 million pod launches daily.

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What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.314

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.314. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.314 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Top Book Picks for Site Reliability Engineers

DZone

I believe reading is fundamental. site reliability engineers (SREs) need to have deep knowledge in a wide range of subjects and topics such as coding, operating systems, computer networking, large-scale distributed systems, SRE best practices , and more to be successful at their job. In this article, I discuss a few books that will help SREs to become better at their job. 1.

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How to Make a RAG Application With LangChain4j

The Polyglot Developer

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, introduces some serious capabilities to your large language models (LLMs). These applications can answer questions about your specific corpus of knowledge, while leveraging all the nuance and sophistication of a traditional LLM. This tutorial will take you through the ins and outs of creating a Q&A chatbot using RAG.

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Vibe Testing – An Intuition-Driven Testing?

Testsigma

AI can now code apps. Cool, right? You tell it what you want, and boom, you have buttons, databases, and login flows appear like magic. No syntax errors, and no StackOverflow rabbit holes. It’s fast, it’s wild, so it’s… a little suspicious. Welcome to the world of Vibe Coding , a new way of building software where the focus shifts from writing code to describing what the code should do.

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Progress report on pg_tde - GA extension is nearer every day!

Percona Community

Another week, another blogpost about the state of open source Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for PostgreSQL. First off, thank you for all the feedback shared so far! Whether it’s reports about deployment issues with pg_tde, integration with KMS, missing features or gaps in our documentation, we truly appreciate it! Your input helps us build a better, more complete solution and to properly prioritize what’s next.

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HammerDB v5.0 Released – Powered by Tcl 9.0 and Single-File Executables

HammerDB

Were excited to announce the release of HammerDB v5.0 , a major leap forward for the worlds leading open-source database benchmarking tool. With this release, weve delivered the HammerDB weve always envisionedmodern, portable, and more powerful than ever. Built on Tcl/Tk 9.0 the first major upgrade in over 27 yearsHammerDB v5.0 brings a fully streamlined experience, enhanced performance, and unmatched ease of installation across platforms.

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Django MongoDB Backend Quickstart

The Polyglot Developer

Interested in diving into our Django MongoDB Backend integration ? Follow along with this quickstart to create a Django application, connect that application to a MongoDB deployment, ensure your deployment is hosted on MongoDB Atlas, and interact with the data stored in your database using simple CRUD operations. The post Django MongoDB Backend Quickstart appeared first on DEV.

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Generative AI in the Real World: Securing AI with Steve Wilson

O'Reilly

Join Steve Wilson and Ben Lorica for a discussion of AI security. We all know that AI brings new vulnerabilities into the software landscape. Steve and Ben talk about what makes AI different, what the big risks are, and how you can use AI safely. Find out how agents introduce their own vulnerabilities, and learn about resources such as OWASP that can help you understand them.

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It's a Trap! The Two Generals' Problem

Particular Software

In distributed systems, coordination is hardreally hardespecially when both parties depend on mutual confirmation to proceed, but theres no guarantee their messages will arrive. This classic dilemma is known as the Two Generals Problem. Like most problems in computer science, its easier to understand when explained with lasers, spaceships, and sarcastic smugglers.

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The Human Side of Logs: What Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You

DZone

Its Friday afternoon, and your dashboards look great. Charts are green. CPU usage is stable. Database query times are within your SLA. Youre feeling great and ready for the weekend. But little do you know, theres a significant issue being overlooked by all your metrics and its about to ruin your weekend.

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Patroni: The Key PostgreSQL Component for Enterprise High Availability

Percona

You don’t have time for database downtime. Whether you’re managing a high-traffic application, supporting business-critical transactions, or ensuring real-time analytics stay online, the last thing you need is a PostgreSQL failure that grinds everything to a halt. But lets be real; high availability (HA) in PostgreSQL isnt something you can just switch on.

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Migrating Your Content Management System (CMS) Assets With MongoDB and Node.js

The Polyglot Developer

Content platforms evolve as business strategies shift. At MongoDB, we embraced external publishing platforms like Dev.to , Medium , The Polyglot Developer , etc. to better engage developer communities, requiring us to redistribute content while maintaining our existing CMS data in MongoDB. To support our multi-platform publishing strategy, we created a system to publish content between our MongoDB CMS and external platforms.

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